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Sustainability Innovation in the Textile Industry: A Systematic Review

  • Budi Harsanto,
  • Ina Primiana,
  • Vita Sarasi and
  • Yayan Satyakti

13 January 2023

The aim of this review study is to understand the current state and practice of sustainability innovation in the textile industry. The textile industry is regarded as one of the industries that faces the biggest challenges in incorporating sustainabi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Materials and Management in Fashion Industry)
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1,045 Citations
300,753 Views
41 Pages

Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions

  • Rakesh Kumar,
  • Anurag Verma,
  • Arkajyoti Shome,
  • Rama Sinha and ,
  • Srishti Sinha,
  • Prakash Kumar Jha,
  • Ritesh Kumar,
  • Pawan Kumar,
  • Shubham and
  • P. V. Vara Prasad
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

6 September 2021

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed to the environment creates problems and is of significant concern for all life forms. Plastic production and accumulation in the natural environment are occu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plastic Waste and Pollution)
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276 Citations
259,957 Views
14 Pages

11 September 2014

Sustainability is significantly important for fashion business due to consumers’ increasing awareness of environment. When a fashion company aims to promote sustainability, the main linkage is to develop a sustainable supply chain. This paper contrib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Fashion Business Operations)
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411 Citations
259,627 Views
23 Pages

20 March 2019

In today’s world, social media is playing an indispensable role on the learning behavior of university students to achieve sustainable education. The impact of social media on sustainable education is becoming an essential and impelling factor....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Network Analysis and Social Networks in Education for Sustainable Development)
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995 Citations
253,160 Views
13 Pages

What is Sustainability?

  • Tom Kuhlman and
  • John Farrington

1 November 2010

Sustainability as a policy concept has its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That document was concerned with the tension between the aspirations of mankind towards a better life on the one hand and the limitations imposed by nature on the oth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Futures)
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540 Citations
224,504 Views
27 Pages

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

  • Niloufar Fallah Shayan,
  • Nasrin Mohabbati-Kalejahi,
  • Sepideh Alavi and
  • Mohammad Ali Zahed

21 January 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been an articulated practice for over 7 decades. Still, most corporations lack an integrated framework to develop a strategic, balanced, and effective approach to achieving excellence in CSR. Considering the...

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403 Citations
222,371 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2020

The significant changes which have occurred in the competitive scenario in which fashion companies operate, combined with deep transformation in the lifestyles of final consumers, translate into the need to redefine the business models. Starting from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Fashion Brands)
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955 Citations
219,052 Views
27 Pages

16 August 2023

The recent high performance of ChatGPT on several standardized academic tests has thrust the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) into the mainstream conversation about the future of education. As deep learning is poised to shift the teaching paradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital and Sustainable Transformation of Education: Technology Enhanced-Teaching, Learning and Social Inclusion)
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1,460 Citations
210,732 Views
34 Pages

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students: A Global Perspective

  • Aleksander Aristovnik,
  • Damijana Keržič,
  • Dejan Ravšelj,
  • Nina Tomaževič and
  • Lan Umek

13 October 2020

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive the impacts of the first wave of COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 on various aspects of their lives on a global level. With a sample of 30,383 students from...

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229 Citations
186,472 Views
15 Pages

Impact of Social Media Influencers on Customer Engagement and Purchase Intention: A Meta-Analysis

  • Lie Ao,
  • Rohit Bansal,
  • Nishita Pruthi and
  • Muhammad Bilawal Khaskheli

2 February 2023

This research aims at providing a meta-analysis of empirical findings of the literature on the characteristics of social media influencers on customer engagement and purchase intention. For this purpose, researchers derived eight social media influen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer Behavior and Sustainable Marketing Development in Online and Offline Settings)
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22 Citations
179,955 Views
32 Pages

21 July 2021

Human civilisation has undergone a continuous trajectory of rising sociopolitical complexity since its inception; a trend which has undergone a dramatic recent acceleration. This phenomenon has resulted in increasingly severe perturbation of the Eart...

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419 Citations
179,939 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2020

During the global 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, the advantages of online food delivery (FD) were obvious, as it facilitated consumer access to prepared meals and enabled food providers to keep operating. However, online FD is not without its critics, with...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Review
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  • Best Paper Award
1,322 Citations
179,901 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Its Mitigation Strategies: A Review

  • Gurdeep Singh Malhi,
  • Manpreet Kaur and
  • Prashant Kaushik

27 January 2021

Climate change is a global threat to the food and nutritional security of the world. As greenhouse-gas emissions in the atmosphere are increasing, the temperature is also rising due to the greenhouse effect. The average global temperature is increasi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Sustainable Agriculture Approaches for Food Security under Climate Change)
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437 Citations
174,858 Views
53 Pages

29 July 2020

In light of future work challenges, actual human resource management (HRM) needs to be redesigned, including long-term development, regeneration, and renewal of human resources, passing from consuming to developing human resources by incorporating th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing Sustainable HRM)
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36 Citations
171,657 Views
22 Pages

IT2 Hybrid Decision-Making Approach to Performance Measurement of Internationalized Firms in the Baltic States

  • Hasan Dinçer,
  • Serhat Yüksel,
  • Renata Korsakienė,
  • Agota Giedrė Raišienė and
  • Yuriy Bilan

8 January 2019

International activities of firms contribute to environmental socio-economic development and have a positive influence on prosperity of countries. The novelty of this study is to extend prevailing theory on the performance measurement of internationa...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
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172 Citations
166,396 Views
26 Pages

Challenges and Strategies for Employee Retention in the Hospitality Industry: A Review

  • Bilqees Ghani,
  • Muhammad Zada,
  • Khalid Rasheed Memon,
  • Rezwan Ullah and ,
  • Afraseyab Khattak,
  • Heesup Han,
  • Antonio Ariza-Montes and
  • Luis Araya-Castillo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 March 2022

Despite the issues that the hospitality industry encounters in retaining talented employees, little attention has been paid to the development of retention strategies, resulting in poor organizational performance and sustainable growth. The current s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Human Resource Management and Employee Relations in Developing Sustainable Workplaces)
  • Review
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148 Citations
163,585 Views
28 Pages

4 April 2023

The fashion industry is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Sustainable fashion (SF) aims to address this issue by designing, creating, and marketing socially and environmentally responsible products. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumption Culture and Sustainability Discourses)
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193 Citations
163,017 Views
18 Pages

Cashless Transactions: A Study on Intention and Adoption of e-Wallets

  • Marvello Yang,
  • Abdullah Al Mamun,
  • Muhammad Mohiuddin,
  • Noorshella Che Nawi and
  • Noor Raihani Zainol

15 January 2021

This study explored the effect of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influence, facilitating condition, lifestyle compatibility, and perceived trust on both the intention to use an e-wallet and the adoption of an e-wallet among adult...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
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665 Citations
152,006 Views
28 Pages

ESG: Research Progress and Future Prospects

  • Ting-Ting Li,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and
  • Derek D. Wang

21 October 2021

The sustainable development of the global economy and society calls for the practice of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) principle. The ESG principle has been developed for 17 years following its formal proposal in 2004. Countries aroun...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Review
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255 Citations
151,902 Views
18 Pages

Which Diet Has the Least Environmental Impact on Our Planet? A Systematic Review of Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diets

  • Bingli Clark Chai,
  • Johannes Reidar van der Voort,
  • Kristina Grofelnik,
  • Helga Gudny Eliasdottir and ,
  • Ines Klöss and
  • Federico J. A. Perez-Cueto
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2019

The food that we consume has a large impact on our environment. The impact varies significantly between different diets. The aim of this systematic review is to address the question: Which diet has the least environmental impact on our planet? A comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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811 Citations
148,742 Views
21 Pages

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

  • Jessica Aschemann-Witzel,
  • Ilona De Hooge,
  • Pegah Amani,
  • Tino Bech-Larsen and
  • Marije Oostindjer

26 May 2015

In the past decade, food waste has received increased attention on both academic and societal levels. As a cause of negative economic, environmental and social effects, food waste is considered to be one of the sustainability issues that needs to be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding, Measuring and Avoiding Food Waste across the Food Chain)
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275 Citations
148,675 Views
24 Pages

The Service Quality Dimensions that Affect Customer Satisfaction in the Jordanian Banking Sector

  • Miklós Pakurár,
  • Hossam Haddad,
  • János Nagy,
  • József Popp and
  • Judit Oláh

20 February 2019

Banks must meet the needs of their customers in order to achieve sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to examine service quality dimensions, by using the modified SERVQUAL model, which can be used to measure customer satisfaction, and th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Financial Markets)
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  • Open Access
160 Citations
146,835 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2021

This paper attempts to provide an up-to-date depiction and analysis of the consumer’s attitude towards sustainability of fast fashion products in the UK. Four related strands of literature are reviewed to establish a tri-component model of attitude (...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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107 Citations
146,734 Views
18 Pages

Transition from Online to Face-to-Face Education after COVID-19: The Benefits of Online Education from Students’ Perspective

  • Claudia E. Stoian,
  • Marcela A. Fărcașiu,
  • Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir and
  • Vasile Gherheș

7 October 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a mark on education as it had been known before. Beyond his, attention needs to be paid to the transition back to face-to-face learning and its implications. Within this context of change, the present research focuses o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology Enhanced Learning and Resilience in Higher Education Institutions during COVID-19 and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities)
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908 Citations
146,234 Views
23 Pages

Waste Management through Composting: Challenges and Potentials

  • Modupe Stella Ayilara,
  • Oluwaseyi Samuel Olanrewaju,
  • Olubukola Oluranti Babalola and
  • Olu Odeyemi

30 May 2020

Composting is the controlled conversion of degradable organic products and wastes into stable products with the aid of microorganisms. Composting is a long-used technology, though it has some shortcomings that have reduced its extensive usage and eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Insect Production for Food, Feed and Technical Application)
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6 Citations
144,342 Views
20 Pages

22 November 2022

Complementary currencies have spread to many places around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Creating sustainable economic cycles and short transport routes are often the goals of introducing them. Due to their manageability, regional c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Living: An Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Challenge for Researchers, Decision Makers and Practitioners)
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152 Citations
141,075 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Digital Marketing on the Performance of SMEs: An Analytical Study in Light of Modern Digital Transformations

  • Abdel-Aziz Ahmad Sharabati,
  • Ahmad Ali Atieh Ali,
  • Mahmoud Izzat Allahham,
  • Alhareth Abu Hussein and ,
  • Ahmad Fathi Alheet and
  • Abdelaziz Saleh Mohammad
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 October 2024

This research intends to evaluate the effect on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of technological developments, including digital marketing, and to determine the variables that affect the relationship. Because these businesses a...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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902 Citations
140,416 Views
20 Pages

7 July 2020

Ensuring food security has become an issue of key importance to countries with different degrees of economic development, while the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in improving food availability. The aim of this paper is to identify relati...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Development of Rural Areas and Agriculture)
  • Review
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370 Citations
140,116 Views
34 Pages

12 March 2020

Packaging sustainability concepts have co-evolved with the increasing incorporation of the principles of sustainable development at various levels within industrial and organizational platforms. Currently, pollution from plastics, packaging-related w...

  • Review
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1,329 Citations
139,763 Views
28 Pages

18 January 2016

Switching from the current linear model of economy to a circular one has recently attracted increased attention from major global companies e.g., Google, Unilever, Renault, and policymakers attending the World Economic Forum. The reasons for this are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Models)
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322 Citations
139,669 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2019

Sustainable development (SD) has become a fundamental strategy to guide the world’s social and economic transformation. However, in the process of practice, there are still misinterpretations in regards to the theory of SD. Such misinterpretati...

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612 Citations
137,097 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2023

A new era of education and research based on chatbots and artificial intelligence is quickly growing. However, the application of these new systems is associated with several challenges and limitations, mainly related to ethics. This paper explores t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Intelligence and Emerging Educational Technology)
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  • Best Paper Award
1,408 Citations
135,645 Views
22 Pages

A Global Assessment: Can Renewable Energy Replace Fossil Fuels by 2050?

  • Jerry L. Holechek,
  • Hatim M. E. Geli,
  • Mohammed N. Sawalhah and
  • Raul Valdez

16 April 2022

Our study evaluated the effectiveness of using eight pathways in combination for a complete to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050. These pathways included renewable energy development; improving energy efficiency; increasing ene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economy Transition)
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93 Citations
127,348 Views
18 Pages

3 March 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home has unquestionably become one of the most extensively employed techniques to minimize unemployment, keep society operating, and shield the public from the virus. However, the impacts of work-from-home (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Innovation, Business Models and Sustainability Transition)
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  • Open Access
250 Citations
126,105 Views
18 Pages

28 December 2020

Social media has been playing an important role in marketing strategy. As a part of social media, social networking sites (SNS) can be utilized by enterprises to create direct communication and good relationships with their customers. Therefore, ente...

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772 Citations
125,035 Views
24 Pages

Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education during the Coronavirus Pandemic: Students’ Perspective

  • Claudiu Coman,
  • Laurențiu Gabriel Țîru,
  • Luiza Meseșan-Schmitz,
  • Carmen Stanciu and
  • Maria Cristina Bularca

11 December 2020

The research focuses on identifying the way in which Romanian universities managed to provide knowledge during the Coronavirus pandemic, when, in a very short time, universities had to adapt the educational process for exclusively online teaching and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue University Education in the Age of COVID-19: Transformations and Challenges for Students and Teachers)
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1,809 Citations
123,174 Views
21 Pages

13 May 2015

Feeding the world population, 7.3 billion in 2015 and projected to increase to 9.5 billion by 2050, necessitates an increase in agricultural production of ~70% between 2005 and 2050. Soil degradation, characterized by decline in quality and decrease...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Soil Health to Mitigate Soil Degradation)
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712 Citations
120,965 Views
41 Pages

18 March 2016

Soil health, along with water supply, is the most valuable resource for humans, as human life depends on the soil’s generosity. Soil degradation, therefore, poses a threat to food security, as it reduces yield, forces farmers to use more inputs, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Issues on Soil Management and Conservation)
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720 Citations
120,852 Views
24 Pages

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Transport: An Overview

  • Rusul Abduljabbar,
  • Hussein Dia,
  • Sohani Liyanage and
  • Saeed Asadi Bagloee

2 January 2019

The rapid pace of developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing unprecedented opportunities to enhance the performance of different industries and businesses, including the transport sector. The innovations introduced by AI include highly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Mobility for Future Cities)
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535 Citations
120,408 Views
27 Pages

Role of Digital Transformation for Achieving Sustainability: Mediated Role of Stakeholders, Key Capabilities, and Technology

  • Rafael Martínez-Peláez,
  • Alberto Ochoa-Brust,
  • Solange Rivera,
  • Vanessa G. Félix and ,
  • Rodolfo Ostos,
  • Héctor Brito,
  • Ramón A. Félix and
  • Luis J. Mena
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 July 2023

Sustainability through digital transformation is essential for contemporary businesses. Embracing sustainability, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can gain a competitive advantage, attracting customers and investors who share thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Small Business Development and Digital Transformation)
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866 Citations
117,472 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2020

Eco-anxiety and climate anxiety are widely discussed in contemporary media and are subjects of growing research interest. However, there is a lack of research about the definitions and variations of these phenomena. This article analyzes various view...

(This article belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
629 Citations
113,119 Views
37 Pages

6 July 2023

This paper delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, covering its evolution, laws, principles, as well as the different domains and challenges related to achieving it in the modern world. Although capitalism, socialism, and communism ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prospects and Challenges of Bioeconomy Sustainability Assessment)
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  • Open Access
250 Citations
112,110 Views
15 Pages

E-Learning vs. Face-To-Face Learning: Analyzing Students’ Preferences and Behaviors

  • Vasile Gherheș,
  • Claudia E. Stoian,
  • Marcela Alina Fărcașiu and
  • Miroslav Stanici

14 April 2021

Educational life worldwide has been shaken by the closure of schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ripple effects have been felt in the way both teachers and students have adapted to the constraints imposed by the new online fo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Teaching and Learning Strategies in the Digital Age)
  • Systematic Review
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495 Citations
110,005 Views
31 Pages

12 July 2023

Wastewater treatment involves the extraction of pollutants, removal of coarse particles, and elimination of toxicants. Moreover, wastewater treatment kills pathogens and produces bio-methane and fresh manure for agricultural production. The connectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wastewater Treatment and Reuse for Sustainable Water Resources Management)
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498 Citations
109,474 Views
26 Pages

Challenges of Sustainable and Commercial Aquaponics

  • Simon Goddek,
  • Boris Delaide,
  • Utra Mankasingh,
  • Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir and ,
  • Haissam Jijakli and
  • Ragnheidur Thorarinsdottir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 April 2015

The world is facing a number of serious problems of which population rise, climate change, soil degradation, water scarcity and food security are among the most important. Aquaponics, as a closed loop system consisting of hydroponics and aquaculture...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
76 Citations
107,810 Views
21 Pages

27 October 2022

Businesses must maintain their ability to adapt in order to remain competitive in today’s ever-evolving industry. They must collect and evaluate data continuously to make educated decisions and take appropriate measures. As a result, since the...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
107,548 Views
19 Pages

Factors Affecting Customer Satisfaction in Fast Food Restaurant “Jollibee” during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Ardvin Kester S. Ong,
  • Yogi Tri Prasetyo,
  • Klint Allen Mariñas,
  • Jehorom Px Alegre Perez and ,
  • Satria Fadil Persada,
  • Reny Nadlifatin,
  • Thanatorn Chuenyindee and
  • Thapanat Buaphiban
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2022

Jollibee is one of the most widely known fast food in Filipino-based restaurants in the world. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted restaurants across the world. The decrease in profit and dividend, and even closure of branches were evident. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Food)
  • Review
  • Open Access
288 Citations
105,613 Views
37 Pages

30 January 2024

In this review, utilizing the PRISMA methodology, a comprehensive analysis of the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) across diverse professional sectors is presented, drawing from 159 selected research publications. This study provides a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustaining Work and Careers for Human Well-Being in the New Normal)
  • Review
  • Open Access
105 Citations
105,096 Views
25 Pages

Assessment of Benefits and Risk of Genetically Modified Plants and Products: Current Controversies and Perspective

  • Bimal Kumar Ghimire,
  • Chang Yeon Yu,
  • Won-Ryeol Kim,
  • Hee-Sung Moon and ,
  • Joohyun Lee,
  • Seung Hyun Kim and
  • Ill Min Chung
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 January 2023

Genetic transformation has emerged as an important tool for the genetic improvement of valuable plants by incorporating new genes with desirable traits. These strategies are useful especially in crops to increase yields, disease resistance, tolerance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Response and Mechanism of Crops to Abiotic Stresses)
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