This paper focuses on the role of information management models and information and communication technology (ICT) applications in facilitating implementation of social responsibility and sustainable practices in contemporary organizations. On the one hand, the fields of corporate social responsibility and sustainability have grown exponentially in the last decade. Both include three dimensions...

Reports of how different countries are responding to the need to develop more integrated health and social care services for older adults can provide useful lessons for other health systems. However an understanding of how the wider structural, political, economic and cultural context affects implementation of these models of care is essential when considering the potential for models to be sca...

Sustainability Indicators (SIs) have been popular among a section of the policy and science community for some years and are often promoted by this group as a potent vehicle to help make sustainable development a reality. One of the claimed strengths of SIs is their ability to present complex data and trends to policy makers. It is assumed that SIs can thereby help to make policy and indeed man...

There are great expectations regarding the potential contribution of integrated care interventions to improved outcomes, but so far the evidence is mixed. In this dissertation, we focussed on why, when and how some integrated care interventions contribute to improved outcomes, while others do not. To this purpose, we developed the COMIC Model for studying the Context, Outcomes and Mechanisms of...

Fast growing economies are paralleled with extensive sprawl and an increasing trend in auto-mobilization. Hence there is a direct effect on the travel demand on transport systems. Cities are confronted by challenges to achieve sustainable alternatives to the benign effects of the private motorcar. The move from an auto-oriented city towards a lesser car reliant city is of dire need. The ways in...

Purpose This viewpoint paper aims to discuss sustainable digitalisation of facilities management (FM) through the implementation newly recognised International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards within ISO 41000 series. Design/methodology/approach provides a review literature recent documents and academic study. The content is also dependent on authors’ opinions interpretation. Fi...