Institutional commitment to sustainability

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability

Sustainability of Users’ Commitment to Living Labs: an Exploratory Research

This paper investigates why end-users sometimes find difficult to fully invest themselves in a Living Lab initiative, at least on the long run. The paper builds insights on the basis of users’ feedback about four projects currently managed by the Wallonia e-health Living Lab (WeLL) and pave the way for renewed models of collaboration that could lead to sustainable satisfaction and long-term com...

An Audience-Cost Theory of Institutional Commitment

Institutions constrain political choices and thus commit the future path of policy. Well-designed institutions square the circle of generating commitment that is both credible and flexible. This essay develops an audience-cost theory of flexible commitment that addresses some vexing questions. Where does institutional commitment comes from? Why is institutional commitment feasible when policy c...

Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges

Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e., local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how...

Institutional and Human Resources for Sustainability

This article explores the kinds of institutional arrangements most likely to be able to address sustainability issues. The term “institutions” is taken to mean the wide array of social, political, legal, and economic arrangements, structures, and rules—not simply institutions of the state, but of community and society more broadly. Of particular interest here is the interconnection of people an...