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Innovative business cases in the South Africa table grape and wine industries: developing the concept of empowerment entrepreneurship

Ras, Peter J.; Vermeulen, Walter J.V. - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 4, pp. 456-477

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on an innovative initiative taken spontaneously by producers in the supply chain of the table grapes and wine industry to empower employees. Empowerment is a fundamental force for change in doing business in South Africa and its societies, especially in...

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The social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta

Briguglio, Michael; Aquilina, Diana - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 275-291

This paper analyses the social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta, wherein the system of returnable glass bottles has effectively been replaced by a system of disposable plastic bottles. The paper applies concepts such as Ulrich Beck's (1992) 'risk society', and Michael...

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Recycling construction materials in a developing country: four case studies

Srour, Issam M.; Chehab, Ghassan R.; Gharib, Nicolas - In: International Journal of Engineering Management and … 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 135-151

This study identifies, documents, and assesses the existing levels of awareness and implementation of sustainability …, designers, and contractors supplemented with four case studies illustrating the recycling of construction demolition waste (CDW … which were limited to green design efforts and uncoordinated attempts at recycling construction demolition materials. The …

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Evolution of environmentally sustainable practices: the case of the US carpet industry and CARE

Rusinko, Cathy A. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 2 (2010) 3, pp. 258-276

This paper contributes to the literature by examining evolution of voluntary environmentally sustainable practices (ESPs) in the US carpet industry. The case illustrates the importance of an integrated and multi-stakeholder industry group – Carpet America Recovery Effort – in supporting use...

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Strategy Selection and Performance Measurement Choice When Profit Drivers Are Uncertain

Dye, Ronald A. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 12, pp. 1624-1637

This paper studies a manager's attempt to maximize his firm's discounted expected profits by choosing what strategic actions to select and what performance measurement system to employ in a setting where the manager is uncertain about what variables ÜdriveÝ the firm's profits, the firm's...

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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening

Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

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Sustaining a federation of Future Internet experimental facilities

Van Ooteghem, Jan; Taylor, Steve; Grace, Paul; Lobillo, … - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

experimentation. This paper explores the Fed4FIRE sustainability plan in further detail, and first documents how our value proposition … testbeds that support the next generation of research and experimentation. However, such facilities are typically difficult to …

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Sustainable Business Models for E-Learning

Hoppe, Gabriela; Breitner, Michael H. - Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, … - 2004

E-learning becomes more and more important. Reasons are the paramount importance of knowledge, life-time learning, globalization and mobility. Not all providers of information system components for the specific domain of e-learning succeed in closing the gap between costs and revenues....

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Classification and Sustainability Analysis of E-Learning Applications

Hoppe, Gabriela; Breitner, Michael H. - Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, … - 2003

E-learning applications become more and more important. Reasons are the paramountcy of knowledge, life-time learning, globalization and mobility. Not all providers of e-learning applications succeed in closing the gap between production costs and revenues. This results mainly from...

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A Funding and Governing Model for Achieving Sustainable Growth of Computing e-Infrastructures

Mohammed, Ashraf Bany; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

The current access policies and funding schemes of computing e-infrastructures represent a huge challenge for the sustainable growth of computing e-infrastructures and a serious jeopardy for investments made into these e-infrastructures. In order to be able to address these issues, the economics...

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