The aim of the paper is to show that there is a business case for sustainable development and how this concept interacts with corporate social responsibility. Although SD was originally a macroeconomics concept it is more and more implemented by businesses. Companies has started to include...

This paper provides a business and technical case study for the Continuous Commissioning®(CC®) 1 processdeveloped by the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University System for building optimization.The business and technical advantages for CC include: 1) project risk mitigation, 2)...

Social Responsibility, referred to in this study as Corporate Citizenship (CC) has experienced continued growth in significance among academics and corporate leaders. The absence of a multi-level approach to what would explain the advancement in CC has inhibited a realization of singularly...

The world’s people and their leaders face a complex and multifaceted set of ‘eco-social questions’. As the productivity of humanity increases, the negative external environmental effects of production and consumption patterns become increasingly problematic and threaten the human welfare....

Although it is clear that the evolution of fixed access networks requires the installation of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) to all households, the business case for deploying such networks is very uncertain. It requires significant upfront investment, while not being assured of sufficient timely...

Traditionally, most firms? IT capital investment decisions have been based onbusiness cases estimating financial returns on individual applications. Infrastructure costs wereoften bundled with applications, although disruptive technologies, such as desktop computingand Internet protocols, led to...