This paper explores the two-way relationship between sustainability and the accelerating corporatisation of academia. It shows that ‘sustainability’ is capable of being mobilised to serve neo-liberal interests and further drive this corporatisation. However, the paper also argues that within the discourses and practices of sustainability lies a radical critique of the very neo-liberalism which ...

External Posting Date: September 6, 2011 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication  Cloud Sustainability Dashboard, Dynamically Assessing Sustainability of Data Centers and Clouds Cullen Bash, Tahir Cader, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Richard Kaufman, Dejan Milojicic, Amip Shah, Puneet Sharma HP Laboratories HPL-2011-148 Sustainability; Clouds; monitoring; and modeling. Quantifying and underst...

The concept of sustainability is encouraged to preserve natural resources, social values, cultural heritage, and economic capital, which already exist to make available them for the next generations. Moreover, to enhance the level of sustainability in communities, numerous scholars indicated both individual and community identities play a crucial role. Sustainability is attainable and successfu...

In the present article, we explore how sustainable development strategies and health promotion strategies can be bridged. The concept of the ‘duality of structure’ is taken as our starting point for understanding the linkages between health promotion and sustainable development, and for uncovering the structural properties or conditions which either enable or constrain sustainable public health...

Sustainability reporting is a key issue of sustainability development in companies. Sustainability reports are documents which describe data about different performances of companies. They intend to report and analyse sustainability information to provide sustainable future. During sustainability development, reports have to be versioned to analyse histories of sustainability reports and to pre...

Sustainability evaluation has become a key component of international health. However, evaluators have faced a number of challenges linked to the lack of consensus on the meaning of the concept of "sustainability". This paper aims to describe a methodology, the Sustainability Analysis Process, based on several conceptual frameworks and tested in five different countries in the physical rehabili...

While many organisations have been quick to jump onboard the ‘sustainability bandwagon’ little appears to have been done to consider the role of, and effect on, the HR function and manager. In fact, organisations have tended to treat sustainability and HR in silo. This paper examines questions such as: How are HR managers defining and enacting corporate sustainability? And what is the effect of...

Sustainability risk for global production networks can be considered more important than ever due to its distributed nature. The automobile industry relies heavily on its global supply networks. Nevertheless, little is being done to improve the sustainability of complex production environments. In practice, there is a number of factors that regulate the sustainability risk in any industry, and ...

The present paper explored the relationship between environmental sustainability and the use of IT. Based on interviews with seven " Green IT " experts and evangelists, we constructed a questionnaire for CIOs on this important issue. After collecting interview data from CIOs in ten organizations, we found that organizations are at different levels of maturity regarding environmental sustainabil...

This research investigated factors that were perceived to contribute to the social sustainability of cultural heritage information services. Semistructured interviews were conducted with sixteen users, guided by three broad questions: 1. What factors they consider are important for DCH services to be socially sustainable or to achieve social sustainability? 2. What indicators they perceive from...