Periodically, new major forces dramatically reshape the business world. Just as globalisation, the information technology revolution and the knowledge economy have been doing for the past two decades. In the early part of this twenty-first century, the most important pressures facing businesses worldwide, especially those in the developed world, is arguably the need for integrating sustainabili...

This article presents results from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Digital Preservation Sustainability Working Group survey, conducted in 2007. The Library of Congress initiated the working group to gather information about significant issues relating to the economic sustainability of activities that support digital stewardship. The group decide...

Education for sustainability should be capable of developing citizens with the mindset and skills to meet complex challenges faced in 21st century. Although educators have advocated use simulations serious games education sustainability, there is need experimental research that tests effects these active learning methods on learner knowledge, skills, attitudes. This empirical study aimed fill t...

The sustainability of business activities is gaining increasing importance with organizations putting more effort into this topic. Approaches from the field of Business Process Management (BPM) can support sustainability initiatives. This paper investigates the question raised by BPM researchers about the role of BPM for the transition towards a sustainable enterprise. Online content analysis o...

Humans are an integral component of ecosystems, just as the products of ecosystems are critical to social systems. To understand the future state of the boreal forest, we must understand the ecological, social, economic, and business interactions that link ecological and social systems into a common regional system, as well as the feedbacks that govern changes in these interactions. We analyze ...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The barriers to sustainability are juxtaposed against the resources, responsibilities and potential of higher education. Ideas from several models and from within several disciplines are integrated to construct a framework through th...

Although business models have been widely implicated as key influences on the performance of firms, empirical studies investigating the relationship between business models and performance are limited. In this study, we theorize and propose to empirically examine the influence of two elements of a business model: organizational form and revenue model on the sustainability of new ventures. We co...

V. Simovska and Patricia Mannix-McNamara (eds.), Schools for Health and Sustainability: Theory, Research and Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9171-7_18, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract The development of suitable approaches for evaluating health promotion in schools to produce useful evidence to enhance sustainability and transferability is still a major topic of discu...