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  • Geopolitical risk and U.S.–China tensions in critical material markets: implications for the green energy transition
    Hasan, Md. Bokhtiar; Tasnim, Nishat; Dutta, Anupam (Elsevier, 2026)
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    The worldwide green energy transition has escalated the demand for critical electric vehicle (EV) battery materials. However, these materials are heavily concentrated in specific regions, notably China; hence, trade conflicts, especially with China, and worldwide geopolitical shocks likely disrupt their supply chains and lead to price volatility. In this context, this study examines the dynamic effects of U.S.-China tensions (UCT) and geopolitical risk (GPR) on four critical materials for the energy transition—aluminum, cobalt, copper, and nickel. We employ a blend of sophisticated econometric techniques: Local Projection Impulse Response Functions (LP-IRFs), Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR), and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD) for monthly data (July 2010-February 2024). Overall, our findings reveal heterogeneous, material-specific responses to geopolitical tensions, with stronger statistical evidence for aluminum and nickel than for copper and cobalt. UCT is associated with an immediate and persistent positive impact on nickel and aluminum. Conversely, GPR exerts broader, longer-lasting downward pressure, particularly on aluminum and nickel. Copper shows a moderate response for a short duration to both shocks, while cobalt exhibits a relatively muted response. These responses become more pronounced in the post-COVID-19 and post-trade-war periods. Finally, our findings carry significant policy ramifications for supply chain resilience and green energy initiatives.
  • Circular Economy Transitions in Fashion: Infrastructures of Labour and Knowledge in Nigeria's Artisan Textile Sector
    Jeromaa, Ezenwanyi Elizabeth; Benchis, Melisa P.; Narayan, Rumy; Dziubaniuk, Olga (toim.); Narayan, Rumy (toim.); de Nadae, Jeniffer (toim.); Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena (toim.) (Routledge, 2026)
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    This chapter examines circular economy (CE) transitions in fashion through an in-depth qualitative case study of Nigeria's artisan textile sector. While dominant CE discourse prioritises technological innovation and formal industrial systems, this study demonstrates how circularity is enacted through everyday labour practices, informal networks, and tacit knowledge transmission. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 15 stakeholders across Lagos, Ibadan, and Abuja, complemented by visual documentation and secondary sources, we analyse how repair, upcycling, reuse, and apprenticeship-based production sustain material and knowledge flows. Adopting an infrastructural perspective, we conceptualise circularity as embedded in interconnected labour infrastructures, knowledge infrastructures, and socially reproductive systems. The findings reveal both the resilience and vulnerability of these informal infrastructures, shaped by challenges including unreliable electricity, limited waste management systems, and lack of policy recognition. We argue that just and durable circular fashion transitions in the Global South require strengthening local labour networks, supporting knowledge transmission systems, and integrating informal circular practices into policy frameworks rather than imposing externally derived technological models.
  • Introduction: Reweaving the Textile and Fashion Industry: Past Ruptures, Present Transitions, Future Possibilities
    Narayan, Rumy; Dziubaniuk, Olga; de Nadae, Jeniffer; Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena; Dziubaniuk, Olga (toim.); Narayan, Rumy (toim.); de Nadae, Jeniffer (toim.); Aarikka-Stenroos, Leena (toim.) (Routledge, 2026)
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    The fashion and textile industry sits at the centre of an unresolved contradiction. It is one of the largest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater consumption, water contamination, and post-consumer waste, while remaining indispensable to everyday life, cultural expression, and livelihoods for millions of workers along extended global supply chains (Bick et al., 2018; Boström & Micheletti, 2016). The dominant linear model, take, make, use, discard, has become so embedded in production logics, marketing systems, and consumer habits that proposing alternatives often feels like swimming against an ocean current. Aggressive marketing, compressed fashion cycles, and rebound effects in newer access-based services compound the pressures (Ackermann & Tunn, 2024), while opacity along international supply chains continues to obscure labour conditions and environmental harm (Boersma et al., 2025; Garcia-Torres et al., 2022). Yet, alternatives are not only possible; they are already in motion. Across regions, sectors, designers, entrepreneurs, workers, policymakers, consumers, and communities are testing what circular fashion and textile systems might mean in practice (Dziubaniuk et al., 2024; Jia et al., 2020).
  • Cognitive Surrender and Strategic Orthodoxy: Reimagining Leadership Formation for the Age of Algorithmic Agency
    Narayan, Rumy; Diduc, Sniazhana (IEEE, 2026)
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    Business schools confront a compounding crisis of formation. Curricula anchored in bounded-firm ontologies produce graduates who are analytically competent yet structurally unprepared for the architectural complexity of platform-mediated digital ecosystems. Compounding this, the integration of artificial intelligence as an ambient reasoning partner produces conditions for cognitive surrender, the uncritical adoption of AI outputs accompanied by inflated confidence and reduced metacognitive monitoring. We sharpen the construct of cognitive surrender against the related but distinct phenomena of automation bias and algorithm aversion, and we identify its proximate mechanism in what cognitive linguists have recently theorized as the deferential hazards of generative AI design. We argue that the ontological and cognitive crises share a single epistemological root in management education's treatment of knowledge as the stable possession of bounded agents. Drawing on the DIGI-ME Targeted Skills Framework (TSF), built on the DigComp 2.2 architecture, we propose that competencies of reflective trust, hybrid agency, and ethical situatedness constitute foundational preconditions for leadership formation, and we translate these competencies into concrete curricular instruments. We close with limitations and an empirical research agenda anchored in the DIGI-ME consortium.
  • Contracting as Sensemaking Infrastructure: Enacting Sustainability Strategy in Business‐to‐Business Relationships
    Shah Mohammadi, Mohammad Naji; Metin, Ebru (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)
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    Firms articulate sustainability objectives but depend on suppliers and business partners to enact them. As commitments cross organizational and professional boundaries, their meaning may fragment even when parties agree in principle. This theory-synthesis article examines B2B contracting as sensemaking infrastructure for enacting sustainability strategy across interorganizational relationships. Integrating sensemaking, proactive contracting, and contract design, it develops the sensemaking-based contracting framework. The framework identifies four interdependent functions: framing clarifies what the relationship seeks to govern; translation connects that understanding to responsibilities, data, and routines; adaptation organizes legitimate revision; and signaling connects relationship-level performance to external credibility. The article repositions contracting from downstream compliance to strategy enactment. It shows that preserving contractual wording is insufficient when purpose becomes disconnected from performance and directs managerial attention to connections among purpose, responsibility, capability, review, and evidence. Whether this infrastructure supports shared meaning depends on power, network position, and actors' ability to question established interpretations.