The paper discusses culture, business culture and the influence of cultural values on managerial practice in general, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) practice in particular. We argue that western ICT systems are based on optimization, underpinned by the positivism paradigm embedded in the western goal-seeking problem solving model. Eastern, in particular Chinese, ways of thi...

Mining is known to cause high ecological and social impacts especially due its extractive nature on one hand resources reserves mostly being located in developing or emerging economies the other hand. Thus, it can be considered have a paramount role terms of making significant contribution sustainable development. Bearing mind growing economic output generated by humans world population, no won...

business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (egsee) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. more than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various egsee di...