The growing demand for sustainable corporate growth has created an increasing demand for employees capable of implementing a systems-wide approach to environmentally conscious initiatives. This paper explores key skills and goals for people wishing to better prepare themselves educationally for this kind of career. Implementing interdisciplinary approaches in order to merge economics, society, ...

This paper reports the initial conclusions of a research in progress that investigates the role of information technology (IT) in facilitating the implementation of social responsibility agendas in contemporary organizations. The project’s main goal is to produce relevant and actionable knowledge related to how IT can support socially responsible corporate projects. The intensive use of IT appl...

Social responsibility is a characteristic which is very essential for every human being. We are living in a world which is full of events both good and bad and we are all being affected by them either directly or indirectly. The purpose of this research paper is to use technology especially internet and web to be used as a tool to record or monitor the events which are taking place around us, s...

Little is known about how parents and youth perceive their roles in post-transplant management and how this relates to post-transplant adherence. The goals of this study are to (1) describe a new measure, the TRQ, (2) to describe parent and child performance on the TRQ, and to (3) determine the relationship between the TRQ and adherence. We hypothesized that older youth would describe higher po...

International supply chains have become a prevalent business concept since the global economic bloom in 1990s. As world energy crisis, climate changes and environmental degradation have become public addressed issues, managing environmental performance in the context of international supply chains is becoming highly relevant. The paper first addresses the fact that supply chains are getting inc...

The aim of the paper is to define the role of corporate responsibility in sustainable development of global firms. To be successful, global firms must be on the alert of emerging environmental trends and do their best to improve the corporate performance in line with key stakeholder expectations. In this respect, the management of corporate social responsibility highlights the criticality of th...

Formal educational systems in universities typically place responsibility for the student’s learning upon teachers. Teachers have the knowledge and their role is to motivate students to want that knowledge and then to provide it in a stimulating manner. The students’ role is to acquire knowledge and to change their attitudes and behavior in ways specified by the teacher. In effect, the traditio...