Businesses are under increasing pressure from customers, competitors, regulators and community groups to implement sustainable business practices. Balancing economic and environmental performance to be green and competitive is therefore a key strategic issue. The information technology (IT) sector is one of the pioneer sectors which started working on the sustainable development model. However,...

Environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDS) are those endocrine modifying chemicals that are also environmental pollutants. A brief description of known and suspected effects of these chemicals is presented along with a table of chemicals that are of interest for further study by three organisations. The future challenge to environmental chemists will be to develop sensitive, selective, and accur...

Friends of the Earth inspires solutions to environmental problems which make life better for people Friends of the Earth is: the UK's most influential, national, environmental campaigning organization The most effective environmental network in the world, with almost one million supporters across five continents and over 60 national organisations worldwide a unique network of campaigning local ...

Organisations are increasingly being scrutinised and pressured by Government regulators and legitimate environmental watchdogs to align their business with environmental sustainability practices. Specifically, the advent of agreements like the Kyoto Protocol has meant that organisations are now motivated more than ever to monitor their carbon emissions. This focus of carbon emissions has now mo...

This paper presents findings from a six-year research programme underway in New Zealand to develop strategies for improving the resilience of organisations to major crisis events. The research takes a systems view of organisations, recognising that there are multiple interdependencies within and between different organisations that influence their abilities to respond and recover. This means th...

Whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. Mannion and Davies’ editorial on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations” asks the question whether whistleblowing ameliorates or exacerbates the ‘deaf effect’ prevalent in healthcare organisations. This comme...

Even though there are several differences and disadvantages for SMEs, there are also some advantageous aspects for them, including the possibility of adopting simpler life cycle engineering methods and avoiding organisational problems that are typical in largesized company. They should make their own suitable strategies based on understanding the relation of economical, technical, and environme...

this paper presents future trends of urban wastes and their impacts on the environment of african cities using plausible mitigation scenarios. to accomplish this, an integrated dynamic model for urban waste flows was developed, tested, calibrated and validated. its parameter sensitivity was analyzed. using population projection up to 2052 with different levels of technological implementation, p...

In their recent editorial Mannion and Braithwaite provide an insightful critique of traditional patient safety improvement efforts, and offer a powerful alternative vision based on Safety-II thinking that has the potential to radically transform the way we approach patient safety. In this commentary, I explore how the Safety-II perspective points to new directions for organisational learning in...

background a model of quality management called strategic collaborative quality management (scqm) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. the purpose of this stu...