We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher prio...

In this article, we revisit a foundation sustainability framework and argue that integrated sustainability indicators are needed to enable the integrated reporting process. We develop Corporate Sustainability Indicators (CSI) for a major Australian diversified resources firm and engage with expert stakeholders in determining the indicators’ value and explanatory capacity. Importantly, these typ...

In the modern age, sustainability has proven to be a contentious area of debate. With varying definitions, espousals and applications, the term has generated much dissension, especially in the organizational setting. Sustainability has no doubt become a nebulous and multi-dimensional social construct—which makes its implementation even more difficult. However, with careful management that atten...

While sustainability has been under heated debate in the past 20 years, practical issues such as housing sustainability have been overlooked. This research introduces a two-tier analytical framework based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of housing sustainability. This provides a market-oriented understanding on the issue of housing sustainability. The findings suggest that ...

This paper discusses the relationship between the product designer, sustainability and the creation of good quality work within the manufacturing sector. When the principles of sustainability are applied to the nature of employment it points to a new direction for design and product production where ethics, environmental issues and social wellbeing become far more important criteria for ‘succes...

E-services are not sustainable, unless specifically designed for sustainability along four dimensions (4D): economical, technical, environmental, and social. Designing 4D-sustainable eservices is very complex, mainly due to the many challenges in communicating and assessing sustainability. This paper proposes a conceptual model that identifies the core elements of 4Dsustainable e-services. Our ...

The paper presents a general classification of the models being developed in the area of sustainability arguing that the existing models represent the historical conceptualisation of sustainability starting from environmental constraints and moving towards economic valuation and social behaviour and policies. Coupled with computer power, sophisticated models with a varying levels of complexity ...

in order to achieve sustainable development, nowadays, many countries have been paying attention to bottom-up planning and planning for smallest urban :union:s (residential communities). this paper aims to promote sustainability level of sarab and sajjad residential communities and provide appropriate solutions for promoting quality of these communities. the results related to indicators of the...

Rural development can be enhanced and supported by information and communication technology (ICT), the use of which is highlighted by the emerging importance of information and knowledge as key strategic resources for social and economic development. The use of ICT presents a number of constraints which threaten the sustainability of rural ICT projects. Sustainability is key to the effectivenes...

Sustainable software is software which developed with minimal and positive impact on environment, economic and social over its entire lifecycle. The main purpose of sustainable software is to build a software process or product with highlighting the sustainability dimension’s purposes i.e. (environment purpose, economic purpose and social purpose) instead of software development’s benefit. Curr...