Analyzing Local Government Capacity and Performance: Implications for Sustainable Development

Analyzing the Relationship between Sustainable Development Performance and Immoral Behaviors of Managers in Earnings Manipulation

Background: According to the sustainable development theory, managers have a high incentive to observe ethical principles in business operations. However, some of the immoral behaviors of managers in earnings manipulation lead to ethical failures in companies. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between sustainable development performance and managers’ immoral...

Sustainable product development strategies: business planning and performance implications

Manufacturing firms are under many financial and competitive pressures which focus attention on the performance of their manufacturing processes. In this paper the opportunities for improving the environmental impact of products within the constraints of existing manufacturing infrastructure are examined. Approaches which support sustainability in two aspects are proposed, firstly, the provisio...

Decentralization and Local Government Performance

This paper is taken from a study financed by a grant from the World Bank Research Committee. The full report should be available from mid-1998.

The role of government decisions on regional development with the approach spatial planning and sustainable development

Power as an institution, governance as structure and spatial organization is considered as an organizational tool in the service of the goals and aspirations of the institutions of power and governance structure. In this framework the spatial organization and geographic environment is a result of social organization (social, economic, political), and its natural and ecological system. Human aut...

Hatched: The capacity for sustainable development