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and social performance. Some publications even focus on the business case for sustainability which aims at increasing … corporate economic value through environmental or social measures. The existence of a business case for sustainability is … sustainability. A framework for business model innovation is proposed as a means to strategically create business cases on a regular …
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Sustainability and entropy are concepts more than simply relating to environment and physical systems of energy … dissipation, respectively. In the moral, social and co-integrated socio-scientific planes of human experience sustainability is …, response and dynamics in relation to the ecological problem under study. In the Qur’an sustainability as precept is equated …
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Personalized medicine is considered to be one of the most significant innovations in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry. It is attributed with the potential to considerably improve the provision of health care, and to contribute significantly to economic growth. In order to be able to...
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change, new answers need to be found. In the following, the concept of sustainability is introduced as an orientation …
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, sustainability, and institutions, I construct a panel for the 1985-2010 quinquennia, and use as instruments the 1970-1980 data. I … estimate a matrix of causal coefficients for 15 as a function of 19 development and sustainability indicators, using three …, the main causes of divergence, are much less consistently and significantly causally linked than sustainability, human …
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Fiduciary duty is the golden rule ‘regulating’ the relationship between trustees and beneficiaries. In principle, it regulates behaviour by pre-empting those actions that would harm the interests of beneficiaries while promoting duties of care consistent with the interests of those that...
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Sustainability is one of the most over-used words in business in the present time and the meanings attached to its use … appropriate meaning for the concept before considering how sustainability can be applied in business. In doing so we set the … concept within the current debates about sustainability and sustainable development. We then extend this to develop our …
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innovations, in the way that sustainability criteria are integrated into the key processes of supplier management (evaluation … corporations. The results show that some companies are already considering sustainability aspects in their supplier management …
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Recent theoretical research on self-enforcing international environmental agreements (IEAs) has yielded rather pessimistic results: IEAs can be sustained only in cases where the outcome of cooperation is only a minor improvement over non-cooperation. Trans-boundary water pollution problems and...
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In the US, individual consumption choices will be a key determinant for improving energy sustainability and decreasing … sustainability must be developed. This paper will describe efforts to develop undergraduate curricula materials in support of Energy …. Students completed a pre- and post-course survey with questions regarding their sustainability attitudes and behaviors, based …
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