With the rapid economic development of China, many enterprises have developed rapidly with the growing scale and strength, and their products and services have had a profound impact on the society. However, the study finds that many enterprises are merely spectators toward corporate social responsibility (CSR); these enterprises do not play an active role in CSR. At present, the domestic and fo...

The current economic crisis has affected all aspects of life, resulting in political instability, personal financial troubles, and a growing number of business bankruptcies. Although these are serious issues, simply developing a government policy that injects an economy with money is not an appropriate means to achieve economic recovery and long-term economic development unless combined with an...

The Competence Development Systems framework is a synthesis and extension of evolutionary, institutional and systems views of innovation and sociotechno-economic development. It provides a whole systems view of firm learning to analyze the experimentally organized economy. This framework has five elements; 1) customers, demand and value, 2) competition and competitor actions, 3) firm learning, ...

The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

Reorganizing its assistance services, Georgia Tech aims to boost competitiveness and economic growth by fostering innovation throughout the state. Research at Georgia Tech is profi ling the retirement and elder-care sectors to help facilitate public and private investment in those rapidly growing economic areas. IEDC President Jeffrey Finkle relates how his organization supports the economic de...

Regional integration has been used with varying success to overcome disadvantages associated with small size. The fundamental premise for regional cooperation in the Caribbean has been the promotion of economic development particularly in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The opportunity exists however, for use of a regional approach to develop strategic responses to other issues essent...

This Paper presents the environmental evolution of Mumbai city. The concept of eI1vironmental evolution as developed and adapted by Sai and Imum is applied to stu~ the. p~t enviropw.ental status of Mumbai. In '" .... '.,., ' ,~.. ,! ..> . order to study its dynamics the entire process of environmental evolution is cIWideclintotDur types viz. poverty related environmental issues, industrializati...