The principles of sustainability have become particularly important in the real estate and construction sector over the past decade. Despite extended efforts to evaluate the sustainability aspects of the real estate development, very few attempts have been exposed in the scientific literature pursuing integrating the investors and real estate developers’ responsibility for the local community, ...

The sustainability of the business is a global contemporary issue. E-business modelling is another already established term as it converts technology into economic value. Although e-business modelling and sustainability of the business are the two significant global trends now but still there is no common perception about the elements that are essential for a sustainable e-business model. Surpr...

The food industry and its supply chains have significant sustainability implications. Effective supply chain management requires careful consideration of multiple tiers of partners, especially with respect to sustainability issues. Firms increasingly approach their sub-suppliers to drive compliance with social and environmental efforts. A number of complexities make subsupplier management more ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the understanding and presence of sustainability within entrepreneurship education. The extant literature on sustainability within the entrepreneurship discipline remains extremely limited. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has related to economic viability as opposed to sustainability in its broadest sense. This stu...

IT initiatives in healthcare often promise much but fail to deliver. As with IT projects in any other industry, healthcare projects may be abandoned before delivery, or if delivered, they may lack adoption or fail to deliver continuous use over a sustained period of time. Failure factors typically discussed in the IS literature fail to fully explain why sustainability is such an issue in the he...

introduction sustainability assessment has become an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. however, this is a new and evolving concept and there are very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented throughout in the world. the concept of sustainable development can be a state of balance between different aspects of development that aims to disp...

Introduction There are two ways of embarking on a discussion of sustainability in transport. One is primarily concerned with defining sustainability (usually through a discussion of climate change) and then detailing the seriously unsustainable trends we are currently experiencing and finishing with a flourish about how we could change trajectory and solve the problem through some serious polic...

Program sustainability is an ongoing concern for most people in health promotion. However, the current notion of sustainability in organizations, namely routinization, needs refinement. This article examines organizational routines. In so doing, it refines the notion of sustainability and the assessment of routines. Drawing on the organizational literature, a routinized program is defined by th...

The course entitled ‘Product Design for Sustainability’ was opened in the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical University for graduate level students in the spring semester of 2011. Throughout the course, the nature of sustainability is examined so as to allow students to develop an understanding of its applicability to the area of product design and development. A usefu...

This study explains the implementation of an environmental management information system that supports the sustainability goals of Nike using the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework of Tornatzky and Fleischer. Literature review is applied to a single firm in using the TOE framework, with particular emphasis on the technological context of the framework. The use of Nike’s firm le...