Purpose – This paper aims to examine how both the amount and type of coursework impact students’ conceptualizations of sustainability. Previous research demonstrates that academic coursework influences students’ environmental attitudes, yet few studies have examined the impact of coursework on how students conceptualize “sustainability”. Design/methodology/approach – Data are examined from the ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) became a key strategic issue in the recent years. However, the concept of CSR is not novel, the models and frameworks continuously improved. Incorporating social responsiveness into the business is a complex challenge that requires the consideration of individual factors as well. Former studies dealing with the personal aspects of social responsibility poin...

This research aimed to explore participant perceptions concerning the Sustainability Advantage Program, administered by the Business Partnerships Division of NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW). The specific focus of the research was on how partnerships between business and government can support the business case for sustainability in Australian organisations. The r...

Purpose This paper aims to report on the status and development of education for sustainable (ESD) sustainability literacy (SL) in three Latin American (LA) higher institutions (HEIs) business programs Peru, Brazil Colombia. The examines institutional efforts both introduce implement ESD curricula provide SL. Design/methodology/approach methods used this included reviews university Web pages co...

This paper is aiming at illustrating the potential of ICT for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals which were declared by the United Nations in 2015 as binding for all nations of our planet addressing both developing and developed countries. ICT must play a significant role if the SDGs should be achieved as projected in 2030. The paper gives an overview of some of the existing efforts in...

Environmental technologies are becoming increasingly important for business firms to reduce environmental impacts and differentiate from competitors. In this paper, fundamental approaches of strategic management are presented and the strategic significance of sustainability initiatives and Green Information Technology (Green IT) is analyzed. Environmental strategies are introduced and the impor...

Health information systems (HIS) in their current form are rarely sustainable. In order to sustain our health information systems and with it our health systems, we need to focus on defining and maintaining sustainable Health Information System building blocks or components. These components need to be easily updatable when clinical knowledge (or anything else) changes, easily adaptable when bu...

Telecenter is a place where communities can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies to enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others. However, previous studies found that sustainability issues related to economic, political and institutional, social and technology is one of the major problem faced by the telecenter. Based on that problem th...

Sustainability is conceptualized, approached and acted upon differently by people, sectors, societies, nations and educational systems. Consequently, the “sustainability thinking”-related scientific, technological, environmental, societal, economic and policy/political components are expected to transform differently. The related necessary transformative paradigm shifts in science, technology, ...