eco-innovation is an actual topic as it links two key issues, innovation and sustainability. theenvironmental respect and innovation are important drivers of competitiveness. firms are willing to knowwhat to do to improve their eco-innovative capacity. the objective of this paper is to empirically determinewhat common characteristics have the most environmental oriented innovative firms. we ana...

Sustainable development must satisfy the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Although it looks at the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, this article focuses specifically on an analysis of the concept in conjunction with the use and protection of natural resources. It shows how taking account of environme...

Sustainability has become a popular notion in current environmental policy analysis. Various definitions of this concept can be found in the literature. Analytically, the notion is relevant in the integration of socio-economie developments with environmental effects in order to obtain insight into (potential) environmental conflicts. Important in the operationalization of sustainability is the ...

Retailers have a large potential to reduce their environmental impacts and many are already implementing effective actions. This document describes what are the best practices implemented by frontrunner retailers in all aspects under their direct control or on which they have a considerable influence. They cover the energy performance of retailers, the sustainability of retail supply chains, tr...

The field of computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. The big data revolution calls for improved computational methods, beyond the exponential growth of storage or computational capacity. At the same time, pressing issues in sustainability, including complex environmental, social and economic aspects, are also reshaping the field of computer science, as they often raise new challeng...

The perspectives on the manufacturing footprint of global firms are widening from the economic aspects to also include the environmental and social aspects. Thus, sustainability is becoming an important issue for the location of manufacturing facilities. It is therefore timely to review the relevant aspects and dimensions in the extant literature to investigate the relationship between sustaina...

there are more than one million agricultural cooperatives members in iran. in the meantime, the rapid development of the animal husbandry in iran has forced cooperatives to meet the members’ scientific and practical needs for completing production cycle of the dairy industry. livestock production covers a wide spectrum of livestock activities including bee keeping, silkworm raising, and aquacul...

Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely both in practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm’s long-term strategy the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corporate a...

in the recent decades, urbanization has affected social, economical, cultural, political and physical aspects of human life-style. presentation of sustainable development as one of the goals of the third millennium is derived from the effects of cities on earth and on different aspects of human life. undoubtedly, talking about sustainability and sustainable development would be impossible witho...