scholarly journals Sustainable Innovation: Design of an Active Adaptive Organization

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Abbas Nadim ◽  
Shaike Marom ◽  
Robert N Lussier
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Organizational Redesign ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
Long Run

Sustainable innovation is critical because it is a driver for sustainable development, and it is a core business concept for creating and maintaining a sustainable competitive edge. However, maintaining sustainable innovation over the long run is difficult in the current turbulent and complex environment. The article contributes to the literature by presenting an open system perspective of sustainable innovation with practical applications for organizational redesign. This will require the engagement and the integration of the parts of the organization, its culture, purpose, structure, processes, functions and manner by which it interaction with its containing system. It also necessitates redesigning and transforming organizations from their current deterministic and animated forms into social systems. Directions for further research and theory development are presented. 

scholarly journals Environmental Entrepreneurship and ECO-Innovation Outputs : A Pathway to Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Aminatou Kemajou Pofoura ◽  
Huaping Sun ◽  
Maxwell Opuni Antwi ◽  
Charles Kwarteng Antwi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Transition Pathways

Ensuring sustainability in the long-run necessitates devoting strategic solutions to the rising environmental problems. Unless nations move to a sustainable growth path characterized by economic development and human development that conserve natural resources better, the increased environmental pollution will have negative effects on population well-being. Sustainability has been seen as an entrepreneurial imperative and policy goal (Washington, 2015). However, some building blocks of theory development regarding this process of structural change remain elusive (Savona and Ciarli, 2019). The substantive for sustainable development in which transition pathways are still lacking (Dosi et al., 2017).

scholarly journals About the current Issue

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Paetau
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South America ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
World Market ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

The current edition places the discussion of “Sustainable Development” into the center of interest. The first two articles attend the social dimension of the tridimensional approach of Sustainabiliy (ecological, economic and social dimension). Luciano Gallón starts with his article “Poverty and Artificial Sustainability. A research on the Structure and Dynamics of South America” where he shows the process of building a theoretical and practical framework for modelling South America using the approach of Systems Dynamics. Based on this concept he wants to explore questions such as: Is it possible to reduce poverty following a sustainable path? What is the kind of steady state behind the sustainability ideas? In what sense is it possible to talk of artificial sustainability? What relationship can be found between the scales of space and time of the human perspective and of the sustainability and the dynamics of the new social equilibriums? How such exploration enriches the understanding of social systems and human behavior? What contributions can be offered from such analysis and synthesis to contribute to sustainability? How can the structure and dynamics of South America helps to answer those questions?The social dimension of Sustainable Development is also focussed in the following contribution.  Darío Menanteau-Horta analyses in his article “Globalization and Distorted Development: In Search of a System Perspective for Sustainability” the topic of Sustainable Development within the controversy between those who promise prosperity and opportunities in an expanded and international world market and those who claim that globalization, as it has been carried on today, is a negative force for peace, equity, and social development.In his Short Communication to this topic Nils O. Larsson suggests a methodology to find the most important decisions within a specific area of discussion. Focussing on the important decisions and in which settings they are taken gives an increased possibility of solving the problems in question. In this actual subject the analysis should cover decisions on all levels i.e. individual, informal and formal groupings of people, nations, group of nations as well as decisions on the global level.In continuation of his “Introduction into Sociocybernetics”, published in the last edition of JoS, Roberto Gustavo Mancilla presents now the second part focussing the relationship between power, culture and institutions. The third part in which the question of rationality and language will be discussed follows in the next issue of the Journal of Sociocybernetics.Michael Paetau (Editor)

Political Translation and the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Chris G. Pope ◽  
Meng Ji ◽  
Xuemei Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals

The chapter argues that whether or not the world is successful in attaining sustainability, political systems are in a process of epoch-defining change as a result of the unsustainable demands of our social systems. This chapter theorizes a framework for analyzing the political “translation” of sustainability norms within national polities. Translation, in this sense, denotes the political reinterpretation of sustainable development as well as the national capacities and contexts which impact how sustainability agendas can be instrumentalized. This requires an examination into the political architecture of a national polity, the norms that inform a political process, socioecological contexts, the main communicative channels involved in the dissemination of political discourse and other key structures and agencies, and the kinds of approaches toward sustainability that inform the political process. This framework aims to draw attention to the ways in which global economic, political, and social systems are adapting and transforming as a result of unsustainability and to further understanding of the effectiveness of globally diffused sustainability norms in directing that change.

Give it Away Now: An Explanation of the Empirical Results of the Ultimatum and Centipede Games

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Future Consequences ◽  
The City ◽  
Rational Players

Economics defines individual rationality as consumers making choices that maximize their utility in anticipation of the future consequences of these choices.  In theory, a consumer will take his or her income and allocate it towards purchases that maximize his or her utility given his or her stable of reasonably static preferences (in the short run) and estimated changes to preferences in the long run.  In order for an agent to maximize his or her utility, the agent must also maximize his or her income.   However, behavioural studies on human decisions in economic games (game theory) have shown that consumers do not always maximize their income.  Two games in particular (Ultimatum and Centipede) have demonstrated that seemingly rational players may not maximize income, whether for perceived fairness, justice, or punishment.  Practical applications of these results are observed in labour relations when striking unionized employees earn less with a labour stoppage than they would have if they had avoided losing time at work.  Specifically, a seven week strike in 2008 by CUPE Local 855 (Kawartha Lakes) is examined.  It is determined that all four job types in the City of Kawartha Lakes Children’s Services department lost income because of the strike.  Reasoning and empirical results from both the Ultimatum and Centipede games will be used to explain the Union’s decision to strike and to strike for as long as they did

scholarly journals Industry 4.0 and Sustainability Implications: A Scenario-Based Analysis of the Impacts and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Bonilla ◽  
Helton Silva ◽  
Marcia Terra da Silva ◽  
Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves ◽  
José Sacomano
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Negative Impacts

The new evolution of the production and industrial process called Industry 4.0, and its related technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data analytics, and cyber–physical systems, among others, still have an unknown potential impact on sustainability and the environment. In this paper, we conduct a literature-based analysis to discuss the sustainability impact and challenges of Industry 4.0 from four different scenarios: deployment, operation and technologies, integration and compliance with the sustainable development goals, and long-run scenarios. From these scenarios, our analysis resulted in positive or negative impacts related to the basic production inputs and outputs flows: raw material, energy and information consumption and product and waste disposal. As the main results, we identified both positive and negative expected impacts, with some predominance of positives that can be considered positive secondary effects derived from Industry 4.0 activities. However, only through integrating Industry 4.0 with the sustainable development goals in an eco-innovation platform, can it really ensure environmental performance. It is expected that this work can contribute to helping stakeholders, practitioners and governments to advance solutions to deal with the outcomes emerging through the massive adoption of those technologies, as well as supporting the expected positive impacts through policies and financial initiatives.

scholarly journals Penerapan Daily Physical Activity di Sekolah Malacampa Elementary School-Main, Tarlac City, Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Nissa Aulia Belistiana Utami ◽  
Andi Suntoda Situmorang ◽  
Suherman Slamet
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Daily Physical Activity ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Development Goals

The education system in the Philippines has changed because it refers to the United Nations program, the Sustainable Development Goals. One of the changes is that each student is required to attend the Daily Physical Activity program before starting learning. This research is conducted at Malacampa Elementary School-Main, Tarlac City, Philippines. The purpose of this study is to determine what impacts occur after the implementation of the Daily Physical Activity which is carried out every morning in the long run. Daily Physical Activity is done by dancing 10 to 15 minutes. This type of research is an ex-post-facto study in which the researcher examines a program that is happening in the Philippines. Researchers take samples of one class, named class 6 SSES, amounting to 27 students. Based on the results of this study, there are positive impacts in the form of children being more enthusiastic in doing daily tasks and negative in the form of students feeling bored with less varied songs and movements.AbstrakSistem Pendidikan di Filipina berubah karena merujuk program PBB yaitu Sustainable Development Goals. Salah satu perubahannya yaitu setiap siswa wajib mengikuti program Daily Physical Activity sebelum memulai pembelajaran. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang dilakukan di Malacampa Elementary School-Main, Tarlac City, Philippines. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui dampak apa saja yang terjadi setelah diterapkannya Daily Physical Activity yang dilakukan setiap pagi hari dalam jangka waktu yang panjang. Daily Physical Activity yang dilakukan adalah menari 10 sampai 15 menit. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian ex-post facto di mana peneliti meneliti program yang sedang terjadi di Filipina. Peneliti mengambil sampel satu kelas, yaitu kelas 6 SSES yang berjumlah 27 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini yaitu adanya dampak positif berupa anak lebih antusias dalam melakukan tugas gerak di kesehariannya dan negatif berupa siswa merasa bosan dengan lagu dan gerakan yang kurang bervariatif.

scholarly journals Revisiting 25 years of system motivation explanation for system justification from the perspective of social identity model of system attitudes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuma Kevin Owuamalam ◽  
Mark Rubin ◽  
Russell Spears
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
System Justification ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Parsimonious Explanation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Identity Model

Do the disadvantaged have an autonomous system justification motivation that operates against their personal and group interests? System justification theory (SJT; Jost & Banaji, 1994) proposes that they do, and that this motivation helps to (a) reduce cognitive dissonance and associated uncertainties and (b) soothe the pain that is associated with knowing that one’s group is subject to social inequality. However, 25 years of research on this system justification motivation has given rise to several theoretical and empirical inconsistencies. The present article argues that these inconsistencies can be resolved by a social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA; Owuamalam, Rubin, & Spears, 2018). SIMSA assumes that instances of system justification are often in alignment with (rather than opposed to) the interests of the disadvantaged. According to SIMSA, the disadvantaged may support social systems (a) in order to acknowledge social reality, (b) when they perceive the wider social system to constitute a superordinate ingroup, and (c) because they hope to improve their ingroup’s status through existing channels in the long run. These propositions are corroborated by existing and emerging evidence. We conclude that SIMSA offers a more coherent and parsimonious explanation for system justification than does SJT.

scholarly journals Health inequality as a large-scale outcome of complex social systems: Lessons for action on the sustainable development goals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Complex Social Systems

© 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to become real and impactful, taking a “whole systems” perspective on levers for systems change. This article reviews what we have learned over the past century about the large-scale outcome of health inequality, and what we know about the behaviour of complex social systems. This combined knowledge provides lessons on the nature of inequality and what effective action on our big goals, like the SDGs, might look like. It argues that economic theories and positivist social theories which have dominated the last 150 years have largely excluded the nature of human connections to each other, and the environment. This exclusion of intimacy has legitimatised arguments that only value-free economic processes matter for macro human systems, and only abstract measurement constitutes valuable social science. Theories of complex systems provide an alternative perspective. One where health inequality is viewed as emergent, and causes are systemic and compounding. Action therefore needs to be intensely local, with power relationships key to transformation. This requires conscious and difficult intervention on the intolerable accumulation of resources; improved reciprocity between social groups; and reversal of system flows, which at present ebb away from the local and those already disadvantaged.

A Lightweight Detection Model for SAR Aircraft in a Complex Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5020
Author(s):  
Mingwu Li ◽  
Gongjian Wen ◽  
Xiaohong Huang ◽  
Kunhong Li ◽  
Sizhe Lin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Scattering Mechanism ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Aircraft Detection

Recently, deep learning has been widely used in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) aircraft detection. However, the complex environment of the airport—consider the boarding bridges, for instance—greatly interferes with aircraft detection. Besides, the detection speed is also an important indicator in practical applications. To alleviate these problems, we propose a lightweight detection model (LDM), mainly including a reuse block (RB) and an information correction block (ICB) based on the Yolov3 framework. The RB module helps the neural network extract rich aircraft features by aggregating multi-layer information. While the RB module brings more effective information, there is also redundant and useless information aggregated by the reuse block, which is harmful to detection precision. Therefore, to accurately extract more aircraft features, we propose an ICB module combining scattering mechanism characteristics by extracting the gray features and enhancing spatial information, which helps suppress interference in a complex environment and redundant information. Finally, we conducted a series of experiments on the SAR aircraft detection dataset (SAR-ADD). The average precision was 0.6954, which is superior to the precision values achieved by other methods. In addition, the average detection time of LDM was only 6.38 ms, making it much faster than other methods.

scholarly journals Conservation for Sustainable Development: The Sustainability Evaluation of the Xijie Historic District, Dujiangyan City, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiyun Kou ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Sichu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Using Data

Historic districts have become a significant aspect of urban diversity and sustainable development, due to their dual attributes of cultural heritage and living community. This study aims to assess the influence of conservation efforts on the sustainable development of historic districts. Based on a literature review, this study designed a sustainability evaluation model that included twelve indicators and twenty-seven sub-indicators, in reference to heritage conservation, stakeholder participation, economic development, and planning and governance. The case study of the Xijie Historic District in Dujiangyan City, China, was selected to apply the model. Using data collected via questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and using qualitative and quantitative combined methods and weighted averages, the model produced the sustainability index of the Xijie Historic District. Further examinations were performed and findings were explored, regarding the conservation efforts for the Xijie Historic District. Despite the research limitation of a lack of multi-sample verification, the results of the assessment are consistent with what is found in practice, demonstrating the validity of the model. The sustainability evaluation model can be applied to various historic districts and regions, by reassigning indicator weights to the different cases; the indicators system also provides references for research and practical applications for the conservation and sustainable development of other heritage types.

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