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The influence of thermodynamics on the emerging transdisciplinary field of 'ecological economics‘ is critically reviewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is viewed through the lens provided by the 'bioeconomist' Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994) and his advocacy of 'the Entropy...
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improve the sustainability performance of organizations. The concept of the sustainable business model describes the rationale …
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The topics studied in this Special Issue include a wide range of areas in finance, economics, tourism, management, marketing, and education. The topics in finance include stock market, volatility and excess returns, REIT, warrant and options, herding behavior and trading strategy, supply...
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The dynamically changing world economy, in an era of intensive development and globalization, creates new needs in both the theoretical models of management and in the practical discussion related to the perception of business. Because of new economic phenomena related to the crisis, there is a...
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study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the …
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’ participation in extracurricular activities, have a positive influence on the sustainability of university management. The results … of the study have shown that the university sustainability may be influenced by a number of factors, such as students … implicitly also the sustainability of university management. The originality of the paper consists in the relationships study …
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This paper discusses the construction of an ecosystem services index (ESI) and the respective roles of ecology and economics in that effort. It extends the concept of an ESI, analogous to Gross Domestic Product, to other analogous indices, including an ecosystem price or value index, and a net...
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Discounted-utilitarian welfare, the commonest social objective studied by economists, is the basis for the theory of … green accounting in terms of social utility. Sustainability is a different type of social objective. Consequently, green … accounting as derived in many empirical models is not appropriate for studying sustainability. Maximin is a consistent foundation …
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societal development. However, the terms “sustainable development”, “sustainability” and “sustainable” are sometimes over- and … misused despite wide consensus about the concept’s meaning among sustainability scholars and practitioners. While the concept … allows various sustainability views to co-exist, random conceptualizations which do not respect the fundamental …
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