Since the economic crisis in 2008, world has seen a partly negative shift social progress, highlighting that current models and practices do not guarantee long-lasting societal human wellbeing. Economic business are deeply intertwined; thus, businesses play major role advancement of sustainability, academic research can offer support navigating complexity this issue. However, sustainability ten...

The international development community has turned its attention recently to social impact bonds (SIBs), a financing innovation that is being piloted in several high-income countries. In this innovation, governments pay social service organizations only if those organizations achieve predetermined outcomes. A financial intermediary helps social service organizations raise private capital to imp...

The Population Council confronts critical health and development issues—from stopping the spread of HIV to improving reproductive health and ensuring that young people lead full and productive lives. Through biomedical, social science, and public health research in 50 countries, we work with our partners to deliver solutions that lead to more effective policies, programs, and technologies that ...

since 1980, green marketing movement has been widely regarded by organizations consumers. organizations- seeking social legitimacy produce environment friendly products, while try to influence environmental issues. hence, this paper tries to know sensitivity level of consumers to environment issues, rate of participation in social programs related to green marketing and the level of attention a...

The introduction of groupware into organizations impacts the existing patterns of cooperation. Applying the theory of self-organizing social systems, we try to gain insights into these introduction processes. We look at Maturana’s theory of autopoietic systems and show how Luhmann has drawn on it for the analysis of social systems. In the following, we present case studies of evolving cooperati...

Social security and social protection concepts are gaining importance, especially in the Pacific Island countries (PICs). The state-led welfare and social protection system is limited in PICs, where there has been a heavy reliance on traditional, informal and non-state social protection systems which are provided through extended family, kinship, and community. The aim of the paper is to examin...