Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a technique to establish the interrelationships between elements of interest in a specific domain through experts’ knowledge of the context of the elements. This technique has been applied in numerous domains...
Globally, higher education institutions (HEIs) have continued to record varied sustainable development (SD) implementation performances. This variance has been attributed to the presence of certain organisational factors. Whereas previous studies hav...
Flood warning and response systems are essential components of risk reduction strategies with the potential to reduce loss of life and impact on personal assets. However, recent flood incidents have caused significant loss of human lives due to failu...
Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is a widely used technique to establish hierarchical relationships among a set of variables in diverse domains, including sustainability. This technique is generally coupled with MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts...
The implementation of integrated flood risk management (IFRM) is still in its infancy in both developed and developing countries, yet some countries have already encountered barriers to IFRM adaptation. The interrelationships between these barriers n...
Business enterprises such as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in economic development but struggle for sustainability. A business enterprise such as a manufacturing unit tries many technological innovations and strate...
Background: Our day-to-day commodities truly depend on the industrial sector, which is expanding at a rapid rate along with the growing population. The production of goods needs to be accurate and rapid. Thus, for the present research, we have incorp...
In recent years, there has been a trend toward automation and data exchange in manufacturing processes through industrial cognitive computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence. However, the human–machine interface plays...
The adoption of robots in the construction phase can improve safety by replacing hazardous tasks and enhance productivity by automating repetitive work. Despite these advantages, adoption remains slow, constrained by economic, industrial, institution...
In order to study the deep mechanism of integrated power–gas system (IPGS) coupling, the influencing factors of IPGS coupling are investigated using the Decision Making Test and Evaluation Test–Interpretative Structural Modeling–Met...
A business organization needs a supply chain performance management system (SCPMS) to build an effective and efficient supply chain (SC) that will provide much-needed sustainability. The performance evaluation of supply chain management (SCM) is diff...
An increasing focus has been placed on clean energy, carbon neutrality, carbon footprint monitoring, and adaptation of building information modeling (BIM)-based facility management (FM). Hence, there is also a growing demand to evaluate and prioritiz...
Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is a critical step toward achieving sustainable transportation and reducing carbon emissions, especially in regions like Saudi Arabia that are undergoing rapid urban development and energy diversification. However, the...
Cryptocurrencies and their market capitalisation have experienced vibrant growth in the last few years. Their total market cap is more than USD 858 billion as of the date of writing and is growing, with nearly 21,984 tradeable cryptos in 530 exchange...
The Pakistan construction industry recorded a high growth rate of 9.05% in 2016–2017. However, it fails to complete the projects within the specified cost, time and quality due to the use of traditional management techniques. This can be easily...
The tremendous urbanization pace of India calls for higher efficiency in housing development, currently typified by low productivity and poor sustainability performance. Although off-site construction (OSC) is a method of widely acknowledged efficien...
Due to decaying fossil resource and increasing environmental consciousness, the demand of renewable energy resources is escalating these days. Photovoltaic solar energy is one of the most popular renewable energy resources in places where sunlight is...
Education plays a very significant role in the context of sustainability. As the world population is growing, providing education through the traditional classroom setting is not sufficient and not feasible to extend learning in professional life. Th...
20 March 2023
Blogs remain a popular and reliable form of online communication. As the number of dining blogs continues to rise, competition is increasingly fierce. Thus, it is important to not only draw the attention of users but to also secure followers. To incr...
This study addresses the need to enhance college students’ emergency cognitive ability by identifying key influencing factors and analyzing their hierarchical structure. To fill the gap in understanding these relationships, we used grounded the...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) plays a vital role in an organization’s growth and sustainability in the supply chain. ERP implementations have a mix of critical success factors (CSFs) that are very important. Hence, it is essential to study...
Although sustainability has become a central concern in project management research, its integration into enterprise risk practices in construction remains limited. This study investigates the complex set of barriers preventing effective implementati...
Different sources of risk factors can occur in sustainable supply chain management due to its complex nature. The telecommunication service firm cannot implement multiple improvement practices altogether to overcome the risk factors with limited reso...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for life cycle sustainability assessment is an emerging development considered valuable given its importance in enhancing the environmentally friendly performance of buildings by delivering eco-efficient structure...
10 December 2018
Knowledge is considered to be an important resource; it is the source of competitive advantage. However, if knowledge is managed well with Knowledge Management (KM), then it becomes a source for sustainable competitive advantage for organizations. If...
Circular economy continues to gain momentum in the field of construction. Notwithstanding the rapid attention this concept is gathering within the construction industry, a clear framework to facilitate its implementation in Saudi Arabia has yet to be...
Many studies have been conducted to define the critical success factors (CSFs) for off-site construction (OSC) activation, but there has been a lack of identification of the relationship with the identified CSFs. However, it is necessary to clearly i...
Various urban environmental and social challenges have emerged during the rapid urban development. Urban agriculture has emerged as one of the practical solutions to address these urban issues and climate change. This study aims to establish a decisi...
Digital transformation (DT) has become a strategic imperative for sustaining competitiveness in global supply chains. This study situates DT within the frameworks of Dynamic Capabilities Theory (DCT) and Structural Contingency Theory (SCT) to explain...
Bamboo is commonly considered as a green, environmentally friendly material. However, it appears that bamboo finds limited application in the form of green building materials in the Chinese construction sector. In order to explain this phenomenon and...
The global consumer goods market is one of the most complex and multi-layered markets, utilizing many supply chain networks daily. Chinese-made exports comprise roughly 35% of the global consumer market, and this figure is only likely to continue inc...
The development of rural e-commerce has rapidly driven the development of rural logistics in China. Improving the service quality of the last mile delivery is an important measure to promote the sustainable development of rural e-commerce logistics....
The demands for alternative energy resources have been increasing exponentially in the 21st century due to continuous industrial development, depletion of fossil fuels and emerging environmental consciousness. Renewable energy sources, including wind...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are vital contributors and significant drivers of any manufacturing sector. The Industry 4.0 (I 4.0) revolution has made the global economy highly competitive and automated, requiring Indian SMEs to adapt more quic...
Globally, in the innovative and distributional circular textiles, the textile sector of Taiwan has a prominent place. Within the textile industry, the circular economy (CE) obstacles adopted have been studied by several scholars. However, the interre...
With the rapid increase in global trade in recent years, the demand for maritime transportation has significantly intensified vessel activity, leading to a considerable rise in carbon emissions originating from the maritime sector. As a result, in li...
Knowledge management (KM) is the source for creating a sustainable competitive advantage, and it helps the organizations to retain, develop, organize and utilize their knowledge. Due to globalization, the organizations must maintain their knowledge a...
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) has revolutionized every sector in the last decade. A huge demand has been created in the supply chain for doorstep delivery services. However, many barriers are hindering the progression of I4.0 implementation to last-mile delive...
Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) is an alignment of traditional human resource practices such as strategies, policies, procedures, and rules to the latest green and sustainable environment responsive practices. Unlike corporates, the adoption...
The banking sector often plays a crucial role in the improvement of infrastructure and economy of any country. In many emerging economies, it is apparent that a wide variety of social and political issues are related to the associated supply chain su...
As a collection of technologies that match the carrying capacity of resources and the environment, harmonize ecology and life, and balance the quantity and quality of agricultural products in agricultural production, green production technologies are...
Agriculture and its allied activities contribute to the primary sector in India and act as the basis for the country’s economy. Available agricultural landholdings are scattered as multiple plots across the country. Land fragmentation has led t...
Africa’s growth in public infrastructure provision has been fueled by the collective effort of the government authority and foreign private investors. China, through state-owned corporations, has become one of the leading infrastructure financier spr...
The manufacturing sector’s carbon emissions and energy consumption is much greater than other counterparts, which needs to be remedied. To solve this issue, energy efficiency is an essential element for sustainable production in the manufacturi...
Understanding the causal relationships between safety factors is essential for successful intervention in industries with intrinsically high-risk environments such as the construction industry. Therefore, the aim of this study is to employ the Interp...
In order to help Energy Internet (EI) enterprises develop sustainably, promote the transformation and upgrading of energy systems and achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, a study on the influencing factors of green technology inn...
In order to effectively reduce the probability of subway operation accidents and explore the key risk factors and multi-factor risk coupling mechanism during the subway operation period, this paper classifies the risk factors affecting subway operati...
Bangladesh has frequently been affected by natural hazards, notably, cyclones in coastal areas. Humanitarian organizations are always active in helping affected communities through effective humanitarian supply-chain management by providing humanitar...
Due to the embeddedness of organisations in networks, collaborations, and business relationships, knowledge leakage has become a common concern. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate drivers of knowledge leakage in collaborative agreements u...
Innovation capacity is a dynamic capacity linked with the achievement of competitive advantage. Several mechanisms have been proposed to evaluate this capacity. However, developing innovation capacity is a complex process, particularly for developing...
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