Sustainability may be regarded as one of the most challenging and, at the same time, most fuzzy contemporary paradigms. In the present study, referring to the history of other leading ideas, this confusion is identified as a typical feature of young paradigms with a particular danger of misuse and destruction of the idea. Requirements necessary to save and evolve the paradigm of sustainability ...

This paper investigates how sustainability control systems (SCSs) drive employees’ green creativity (EGC) with the purpose of assisting organisations in Sri Lankan manufacturing sector to improve their environmental performance. Managers and staff firms often lack awareness issues, which leads unsustainable strategies. EGC has been identified as an important resource for devising sustainable SC...

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...

the relationship between creativity and mental health and the extend to which different aspects of creativity (elaboration, flexibility, fluency and originality) could predict different aspects of mental health, was studied in college students. 248 subjects were selected as an available pool of subjects and they were given creativity, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and perceived stress tests....

Despite a large body of research on creativity in architecture, the concept of creativity as a multi-faceted phenomenon in design studios is still challenging. The present study aims to analyze the related literature and systematically categorize them to provide a conceptual framework to enhance creativity in design studios. By using a qualitative researcher method along with Sandelowski and Ba...

In this article, the authors aim to reflect on relationship between collaborative creation and creativity ('co-creativity') within Living Lab (LL) research innovation in domain of agri-food systems.While value LL is often perceived be collaboration among its participants, there a need capture measure process co-creation.Co-creativity indicated by literature necessary component social change, as...

objective: interest in the subject of creativity and its impacts on human life is growing extensively. however, only a few surveys pay attention to the relation between creativity and physiological changes. this paper presents a novel approach to distinguish between creativity states from electrocardiogram signals. nineteen linear and nonlinear features of the cardiac signal were extracted to d...