Sustainability  

Hufei Ge, Silu Chen and Yujie Chen

Under increasing environmental pressure, hotel firms need to improve their ability to access international alliances while maintaining good performance for sustainable development. This paper uses survey data from 784 hotels running at different levels of... see more

Chang Juck Suh and In Tae Lee

To survive in the current competitive, unpredictable business environment, it is significant for firms to search and enforce capabilities that lead them to adapt and cope with dynamic changes of environment for their sustainability. We try to connect oper... see more

Daming You, Ke Jiang and Zhendong Li

This study introduces a time factor into a low-carbon context, and supposes the contamination control state of local government and the ability of polluting enterprise to abate emissions as linear increasing functions in a regional low-carbon emission aba... see more

Guoliang Luo, Erli Dan, Xiaochun Zhang and Yiwei Guo

The total grid-connected installed capacity of wind power in northwest China has grown from 16,260 MW in 2013 to 43,290 MW in 2016; an increase of 88.7% each year. However, this region has suffered from increasingly serious wind curtailment since 2014, an... see more

Ulrike Meinel and Ralf Schüle

Climate change induces various risks for supply chains of manufacturing firms. However, surveys have suggested that only a minority of firms conducts strategic adaptations, which we define as anticipatory and target-oriented action with the purpose of inc... see more

Guofeng Wang, Nan Lin, Xiaoxue Zhou, Zhihui Li and Xiangzheng Deng

Aiming to inspect the water use-related situation in the Heihe River Basin, we used a three-stage data envelopment analysis to examine agricultural water use efficiency (WUE) and related issues in the Heihe River Basin from 2004 to 2012. This method calcu... see more

Etayankara Muralidharan and Saurav Pathak

This article examines the extent to which culturally endorsed transformational leadership theories (CLTs) and the sustainability of society, both considered societal level institutional indicators, impact the emergence of social entrepreneurship. Using 10... see more

Magdalena Radulescu, Aleksandra Fedajev, Crenguta Ileana Sinisi, Constanta Popescu and Silvia Elena Iacob

The Europe 2020 strategy is the EU strategy for sustainable and inclusive growth, for fighting the structural weaknesses of the European economies, and for improving their competitiveness. In this paper, we determined the most important ratios of the Euro... see more

Mohd Alsaleh and Abdul Samad Abdul-Rahim

This paper examines the dynamic effect of the economic determinants on bilateral trade intensity of the European Union (EU) region’s bioenergy industry outputs. The authors adopt the panel co-integration model approach to estimate annual trade intensity d... see more

Xiangshuo He and Jian Zhang

With the development of global environment and social economy, it is an indispensable choice for enterprises to achieve sustainable growth through developing low-carbon economy and constructing low-carbon supply chain. Supplier is the source of chain, thu... see more

Zhenhua Zhu, Hongyan Zhang, Jianjun Zhao, Xiaoyi Guo, Zhengxiang Zhang, Yanling Ding and Tao Xiong

UNESCO has classified Manchu in Northeast China as a critically endangered language. Toponyms can act as carriers of languages and can be preserved for a long time. The Manchu language was the national language in the Qing Dynasty, and there are many Manc... see more

Tobias Engelmann, Melanie Speck, Holger Rohn, Katrin Bienge, Nina Langen, Eva Howell, Christine Göbel, Silke Friedrich, Petra Teitscheid, Jaya Bowry, Christa Liedtke and Silvia Monetti

Nutrition is responsible for about 30% of global natural resource use. In order to limit the negative impact the nutritional sector has on the environment and on society, the consumption and processing of foodstuffs with assumed low negative impact is an ... see more

Chihiro Kayo and Ryu Noda

Throughout its life-cycle, wood contributes to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and material and energy substitution. Focusing on wood use for piles, check dams, paved walkways, guardrails, and noise barriers, we quantified the nationwide ... see more

Cristian Carini, Laura Rocca, Monica Veneziani and Claudio Teodori

Directive 2014/95, in force since 2017, is the first European step that requires undertakings to provide mandatory non-financial information. The regulation concerns sustainability information, such as environmental, social, and employee information, huma... see more

Jiali Wan, Yanfang Liu, Yiyun Chen, Jiameng Hu and Zhengyu Wang

Education is the driving force of social development, while regional differences have restricted the balance of educational development. This paper provides a political and geospatial analysis of regional inequality across the province from 1990–2015 unde... see more