Assessing the potential of plastic waste management in the circular economy: a longitudinal case study in an emerging economy.

Plastic waste management represents a fundamental challenge in terms of environmental pollution and health in many emerging countries. Yet, some firms believe improved plastic waste management could lead to value creation and capture, especially from a circular economy perspective. This study draws on a longitudinal research approach that involved 12 organizations in assessing plastic waste management's contribution to Cameroon's circular economy. Our findings suggest that plastic waste management for value creation is still embryonic in Cameroon. Moving to the full value creation and capture stage will require overcoming various challenges identified and presented in the paper. We then discuss our findings and put forward several future research avenues. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10479-023-05386-3.

Use of social media platforms for promoting healthy employee lifestyles and occupational health and safety prevention: A systematic review.

This systematic review assesses the feasibility and efficacy of social networking or enterprise social networking for promoting healthy lifestyles or for occupational health and safety (OHS) prevention. Literature searches were conducted in several indexed databases in order to retrieve studies whose main objective was the promotion of healthy lifestyles or the prevention of occupational injuries by means of social media or enterprise social networking alone or in combination with others promotional or preventive interventions. Ten studies were included. Results suggest that social media may be considered a possible means of communication for the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits in organizations, however further study into this technology has been recommended by several authors to judge the incremental impacts of social media on the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Similar conclusions were drawn from studies that included the use of a social media platform for OHS prevention. Based on current evidence, an organization's use of social media to promote a healthy lifestyle or OHS among its employees can constitute an innovative and promising means of intervention. It is important to mention that due to the scarcity and poor methodological quality of existing evidence, it is difficult at this time to draw firm conclusions regarding its effectiveness and relevance.