The paper highlights the importance of using data-driven decision-making tools in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to improve academic performance and support sustainable development. HEIs must utilize data analytics tools, including educational mining, learning analytics, business intelligence, extract insights knowledge from data. These can help HEIs’ leadership monitor student enrolment ...

Both business networks and institutional forces are relevant to firm internationalization but they have seldom been studied together. We investigate under what circumstances firms more likely adopt non-predictive strategy in light of the influence networks, forces, home market background affecting their internationalization. Based on survey data from 758 small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Br...

after the victory of constitution revolution, the context became ready for creating new institutions. one of the main elements of these institutions was making people familiar with their social and political rights. thus establishment of parliament and political and social institutions in iran clarified the necessity of political and economic independence. as one of the major concerns of parlia...

This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are...

1 Corrections Management Quarterly, 2001, 5(1), 1–9 © 2001 Aspen Publishers, Inc. A persistently disruptive force in correctional facilities is prison gangs. Prison gangs disrupt correctional programming, threaten the safety of inmates and staff, and erode institutional quality of life. The authors review the history of, and correctional mechanisms to cope with prison gangs. A suppression strat...