Special Issue "Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Raszkowski
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Guest Editor
1. Department of Regional Economy, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business 53–345 Wroclaw, Poland
2. University of Applied Sciences Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Interests: 1. Department of Regional Economy, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, 53–345 Wroclaw, Poland
2. University of Applied Sciences Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Prof. Dr. Gerard J. Lewis
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Guest Editor
Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Interests: strategic decision-making; perceived environmental uncertainty; sustainability; corporate responsibility; business ethics; industry clustering; scenario development; business models; resource-based view; systems theory; viable systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, the implementation of the sustainable development concept remains the greatest challenge to mankind. The general sustainable development goal is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development Report, 1987). The global agenda includes:

  • The effects of global climate change: How will humanity manage a changing climate?
  • Loss of biodiversity: The implications of species extinction and ecosystem damage;
  • The effects of toxic and plastic waste: What we eat, drink, and breathe matters;
  • Resource use: Rucksacks and footprints, sources and sinks;
  • Pandemics: Is the cure worse than the disease?
  • Inter- and intragenerational equity: Escalating social inequalities, exclusion, discrimination, and poverty;
  • Demographic change: Population growth, megacities, obesity, education, aging and longevity, migration, generation gaps, and household structures;
  • Consumers and consumerism: How much is enough?
  • Neoclassical economics: What next? Ecological economics, economics of the commons, economics for the common good, the growth paradigm;

This Special Issue emphasizes the importance of sustainable development in today’s world by inviting researchers to the scientific debate on its challenges and opportunities.

The presented research results should have practical value for the institutions and stakeholders developing or implementing sustainable development policies. The research may address, but is not confined to, the following areas of the sustainable development debate:

  • Identification and assessment of smart cities;
  • Determinants for the development of innovation, digitization, and virtualization of the economy, e.g., creative industries;
  • Spatial diversity covering poverty, social exclusion, wealth, and social inequalities;
  • Analysis of sustainable development threats, such as adverse climate, environmental, and epidemic changes (COVID-19); population aging and the resulting dependency ratio;
  • Location attractiveness of countries, regions, and cities; foreign direct investment (FDI); sustainable development success factors.

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Raszkowski
Prof. Dr. Gerard J. Lewis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • innovations
  • smart cities
  • digitalization
  • creative industries
  • social inequalities
  • foreign direct investment
  • investment attractiveness
  • pandemic
  • COVID-19
  • economic crisis
  • demographic change

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Management Styles and Decision-Making: Pro-Ecological Strategy Approach
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 1604; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041604 - 03 Feb 2021
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Management style and decision-making create an organization’s culture and influence its performance also in the pro-ecological dimension. Therefore, this paper’s originality lies in how it explores the effect of management style to inform our understanding of decision-making when using a sustainable approach. However, [...] Read more.
Management style and decision-making create an organization’s culture and influence its performance also in the pro-ecological dimension. Therefore, this paper’s originality lies in how it explores the effect of management style to inform our understanding of decision-making when using a sustainable approach. However, the cause-and-effect relations between decisions and management style remain vastly unexplored. The paper’s aim is to explore whether the management style serves as a basis for decision-making or if it is an effect of decisions. This research addresses a research question: is the management style a basis for decision-making or an effect of the decisions in a pro-ecological context? We used a comprehensive literature review by using inductive and deductive approaches to analyze the relations between decision-making and management style. The paper also illustrates how organizational culture images can inform accounts of business realities influencing organizations’ green strategies. The analogies followed relations between color symbol and guiding metaphor. The article presents a theoretical discussion on the influence of management style on decision-making in the organization, based on original literature research in pro-ecological strategy related decisions. As a result, a decision-making style model is proposed. This nonorthodox approach might open up new avenues of thought in the field of decision-making, management styles, and pro-ecological strategy. Theoretical and managerial implications and directions for future research are also addressed. Full article
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