Search Results - subject:"Sustainability"

Responsibility, inequality, efficiency, and equity in four sustainability paradigms : insights for the global environment from a cross-development analytical model

Zagonari, Fabio - 2017

This paper develops a theoretical framework to assess the feasibility of global environmental sustainability solutions … based on one or more value changes. The framework represents four sustainability paradigms (weak sustainability WS, a …-growth AG, de-growth DG, strong sustainability SS) and five value changes (i.e., a sense of responsibility for nature Beta …

External social accounting developments : analysis and discussion of academic critiques

Alhumoudi, Hamad - In: Business and Economic Research : BER 7 (2017) 1, pp. 33-45

Assessing the impact of eco-innovations through sustainability indicators : the case of the commercial tea plantation industry in Sri Lanka

Gunarathne, A. D. Nuwan; Peiris, H. M. P. - In: Asian journal of sustainability and social responsibility 2 (2017), pp. 1-58

how sustainability indicators can be used to measure the effects of “non-technical” eco-innovations in the Sri Lankan tea … physical and monetary sustainability indicators to evaluate the initial results of the eco-innovation. It shows that …-innovations owing to the multidimensionality of sustainability. Hence, the case study suggests adopting broad sustainability indicators …

Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy

Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468

Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements … evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy. However, so far, social sciences, excluded neoclassical economics and … dogmatic law, have being marginalizing in the mainstream of climate and sustainability science, politics and discourse. Social …

THEORETICAL PRECONDITIONS FOR FORMING THE COMPONENTS OF THE ENTERPRISE OVERALL SUSTAINABILITY

Gontareva, I.; Zemtsova, K. - In: Economics of Development 73 (2015) 1, pp. 59-66

economic sustainability. Therefore, an important issue now is to overcome the instability of the economic systems which … the theoretical preconditions for the enterprise sustainability and, on their basis, form the components of the enterprise … overall sustainability. It has been found out that modern economics focuses on the issue of the economic systems …

Sustainability reporting and its implications for family firms

Shields, Jeffrey F.; Welsh, Dianne H. B.; Shelleman, … - 2018

The capabilities approach and values of sustainability : towards an inclusive Pedagogy

Sanz Ponce, Roberto; Peris Cancio, José A.; Escámez … - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 3 (2018) 2, pp. 76-81

Different models of development have a different impact on sustainability. In this paper, we contrast the development … towards sustainability, a goal assigned by UNESCO. The method used is hermeneutic. The conclusions are: the capabilities … approach defends the values required for sustainability and this approach convincingly argues for the political principles and …

Corporate social responsibility in Bolivia : meanings and consequences

Herbas Torrico, Boris; Frank, Björn; Arandia Tavera, Carlos - In: International journal of corporate social … 3 (2018) 1, pp. 1-13

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been studied extensively in developed countries. However, although most of the world’s consumers live in developing countries, the study of CSR in developing countries in general, and in Bolivia in particular, still is very limited. Developing...

Financial sustainability criteria and their testing in the conditions of the Slovak non-profit sector

Gajdová, Denisa; Majdúchová, Helena - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 1, pp. 33-56

strong economic and social power, influencing the development of the whole society. Today, financial sustainability is one of … necessity of the diversity of financial resource structures, ensuring their independence, financial stability and sustainability …-profit organizations’ financial sustainability, subsequently investigating these criteria’s dependence and the level of financial source …

Population aging, social security and fiscal limits

Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael R. - 2018

We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper … welfare of a number of policies often advocated to improve the sustainability of pension systems. New tax data on dynamic …