Is Psychological Value a Missing Building Block in Societal Sustainability?

Towards Green Building: Sustainability Approach in Building Industrialization

Building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. Pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. Du...

The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift

This article addresses a question relevant to those interested in the achievement of greater sustainability: What are some of the ways that major societal transformations come about? Firstly, four key mechanisms are identified in the article. Then, I go on to focus on one of these, which has a prominent place in the sustainability revolution that it is argued is now taking place. The question o...

Creating Sustainable Value: A Framework for IS Value Sustainability

More than two decades of research on information systems (IS) value still leaves the issue of IS value in an organization a less understood concept. Considering that information systems require significant investments and commitment, the compelling issue for organizations, from a strategic perspective, is to sustain and prolong the value accorded by IS to the firm. In this study, we propose a f...

Is Peace a Missing Value or a Zero ?

Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the dependent variable raises concerns of sample selectivity bias. Beyond demonstrating several pitfalls in the calculation of marginal eff ects and associated levels of statistical signifi cance derived from these models, we argue...

Sustainability Science and Citizens Participation: Building a Science-Citizens-Policy Interface to Address Grand Societal Challenges in Europe