Achieving a higher level of sustainable development needs both individual and corporate efforts. An effective solution needs an integrated approach that allows the consideration of environmental and social values in addition to the economic interest. Additional management tools may be useful but...

This paper examines Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a tool for managing performance of Nigerian universities. It posits that performance assessment of the universities through periodic accreditation exercise is proving inadequate to meet developmental challenges at national and global...

Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s many political initiatives have been taken, many governance experiments have been run, and a large multidisciplinary field of research has opened up. The aim of this...

This paper describes a software package for calculation the condition of the territories of Russia on energy security, developed by the authors. The basis of the software is built on the methods of calculation of energy security, developed by a team of the Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of...

In article the balanced system of sustainable development indicators of the region, including economic, ecological, social indicators and also indicators of innovative development is offered. The analysis of dynamics of sustainable development indicators of the Nizhniy Novgorod region during...

The given article is focused on a topical subject of global trade networks and the current trends of their development on a regional retail market. The authors believe that deep integration of international networks in the regions significantly increases the competition among network operators...

This paper studies the problem of safe and sustainable progressive socio-economic and energy development of Russian regions in terms of reforming economy. In this study, the fractal approach in the framework of nonlinear dynamics for a number of indicators was used, as well as a technique of...

The given article is focused on a topical subject of global trade networks and the current trends of their development on a regional retail market. The authors believe that deep integration of international networks in the regions significantly increases the competition among network operators...

We study the role of positional concerns in explaining the (non-) diffusion of profitable and environmentally friendly innovations in situations where there is no conventional prisoner dilemma. Based on anecdotal evidence from farming activities, we introduce the concept of negative positional...