In recent years a growing interest in the concept of sustainability has manifested itself in the tourism field in the form of policyand planning-related materials which address the environmental and, to a lesser extent, the cultural dimensions of sustainability in tourist industry practices. In essence this literature has focused on the resources on which the tourism industry draws for its prod...

The role of information systems in the creation and appropriation of economic value has a long tradition of research, within which falls the literature on the sustainability of IT-dependent competitive advantage. In this article, we formally define the notion of IT-dependent strategic initiative and use Jane Webster was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Anitesh Barua was the associate...

Throughout the early and mid 1990s, there was widespread faith in the compact city model's ability to provide urban sustainability. However, where compact city policies had been implemented, follow-up studies began to show the predicted benefits did not happen as they should be. The article tries to peruse two opposite approaches of "Urban Sprawl" and "Compact City", with an analytical - cri...

In the literature several definitions of sustainability and software sustainability can be found. However, we think none of them can be applied to the software development context. For that reason, in this poster we cook some existing definitions and we will propose a new one specific for the software development. From this definition we try to create a new recipe, discovering how to combine su...

Existing Sustainable Supply Chain Management frameworks attempt to incorporate each tier of the end-to-end supply chain. However, the firm or buyer-supplier dyad is predominately used as a unit of analysis, leaving a gap regarding how indirect suppliers affect firm sustainability. To fill this gap we pose two research questions: What role do indirect suppliers play in firm sustainability? And; ...

Since the need of sustainable development is indisputable, companies are forced to strive for resources, processes, and products that sustainable. Thus, their business models as main representation activities should be designed in an ecologically, economically, socially beneficial way. However, designing developing closely linked evaluation. Sustainable model evaluation a vital part has been ad...

BACKGROUND Health information systems are central to strong health systems. They assist with patient and program management, quality improvement, disease surveillance, and strategic use of information. Many donors have worked to improve health information systems, particularly by supporting the introduction of electronic health information systems (EHIS), which are considered more responsive an...