Sustainability where profits do not come at the expense of people or the plant demands that environmental impact and social responsibility be balanced with costs and profit. Meanwhile, globalization has brought about very complicated global supply chains used to fulfill the demand for products....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: first, the degree to which career adaptability, career optimism, and career knowledge predict career decisiveness in China, Germany, and the US is to be examined; second, the effect of the five personality traits on the determinants of career...

Introduction to socially sustainable business systems (SSBS) -- Business practices of DAC -- The advent of socially sustainable business systems -- Socially sustainable business systems -- Socially sustainable business systems, employee relations, HR management and employment policy --...

The term urban sprawl is often used to describe apparent inefficiencies of spatial development, including disproportionate growth of urban areas and excessive leapfrog development. In Switzerland, where open space is a scare resource, sprawl takes place all over the country. It goes at the...

Using data of Swiss referenda from 1981 to 1999, this paper presents new empirical results which allow us to discriminate better between the decision and mobilisation hypotheses of electoral participation. First, theoretical considerations which lead to these hypotheses are presented as well as...