Municipal climate plans differ in policy purpose and documentary coverage, complicating comparisons of their preparedness for implementation. This study examines how plan-based implementation readiness varies across four climate-planning episodes in...
Background/Objectives: Telemedicine has substantial potential to improve access and continuity of care, but implementation depends on professional, organizational, technological, and governance readiness. This cross-sectional study examined healthcar...
9 May 2022
Up to 50% of unsuccessful implementations of organizational change are due to a lack of organizational readiness for change (ORC). This qualitative study aims to investigate the experiences of occupational physicians (OPs) and staff of test and train...
Accrual accounting reform can be formally adopted before the internal audit routines needed to assure it are operationally embedded. This exploratory diagnostic study examines perceived implementation risk among 95 internal audit professionals workin...
The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is receiving more attention from academics, business leaders, and manufacturers. However, few readiness assessments are currently available that address the difficulties and needs associated wi...
Thailand has introduced a broad policy architecture to support green industrial development, yet policy support does not automatically translate into commercially viable and socially desirable projects. Using Thailand as an institutionally grounded a...
The implementation of ubiquitous learning (u-learning) is a good opportunity to address the affordability, accessibility, and quality issues of the higher education sector that are present in many countries. However, its broad application is still li...
The aim of this study is to identify the readiness factors of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) for the food manufacturing industry. A multi-method qualitative approach was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve quality practitioners and thre...
The concept of a ‘smart city’ is now commonly used to describe the use of various digital and other technologies, to collect data to provide information that can be used to manage resources efficiently and provide a better standard of liv...
The fourth industrial revolution (I4.0) is expected to increase quality, efficiency, availability, sustainability, the reduction of costs, the demand for energy and environment, and mainly increase the level of occupational health and safety (OHS). N...
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into radiology and may improve diagnostic efficiency and workflows. Its successful adoption depends on workforce readiness, organizational capacity, and effective governance. T...
This research study explores the readiness, strengths, and challenges of the district health system and local bodies during Nepal’s COVID-19 vaccination program. The primary aim of this study is to identify gaps in the current health system and...
Healthcare organisations recognise the need to deliver higher-quality, evidence-based care. Thus, managers need to improve their practice regarding managing and translating knowledge. Knowledge Translation faces diverse barriers that must be identifi...
The EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) introduces a new regulatory framework in which the agri-environmental characteristics of production become a prerequisite for access to the European Union market. In this paper, the EUDR is conc...
The main purpose of this study is to examine how the use of management tools supports the readiness of manufacturing organizations for the implementation of Industry 4.0. The originality of the research is reflected in the exploration of the relation...
Background/Objectives: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a core competence in physiotherapy, yet its implementation in routine clinical practice remains inconsistent. This study aimed to describe self-reported EBP competencies among physiotherapists a...
In light of readiness to change, organizational readiness has received little attention with the extensive assessment of individual readiness to change. (1) Background: Therefore, this conceptual paper aims to address the need for change at the organ...
Studies of Broadband China reach different environmental conclusions, but they do not always measure the same policy implementation or environmental outcome. We test whether conclusions survive changes in implementation, outcome, denominator, weighti...
Construction companies need both planning/control and flexibility, but practical readiness for hybrid project management is still unclear. This study analyzes readiness for hybrid project management adoption in a small Romanian construction-company c...
Introduction: Despite improved health service accessibility, neonatal mortality in Ethiopia remains high at 33 per 1000 live births. Thus, improving health facilities’ readiness across infrastructure, basic amenities, equipment, medications, la...
Background and Objectives: Frailty is a multidimensional vulnerability in older adults; the Fried phenotype and Frailty Index are clinically informative but labor-intensive, limiting scalability for community screening. Machine learning (ML) can mode...
Augmented reality (AR) may support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching, but continued use depends on teachers’ readiness and implementation conditions. This mixed-methods, single-group pre-test/post-test study exam...
15 August 2022
Thailand’s community-based tourism (CBT) faces a challenging adaptation in response to COVID-19 prevention. This study aimed to assess the readiness for effective implementation of the Safety and Health Administration (SHA) for COVID-19 prevent...
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly proposed for digital self-management, yet early-stage platforms may not be clinically or organizationally ready for AI-enabled functions. Most responsible-AI guidance begins after a...
Agricultural marketing increasingly integrates Agriculture 4.0 technologies—Blockchain, AI/ML, IoT, and recommendation systems—yet systematic evaluations of computational maturity and deployment readiness remain limited. This Systematic L...
The expansion of oil palm plantation has caused adverse impacts on the ecosystem. It has been associated with deforestation, biodiversity loss, disturbances to environmental services and livelihood change. The government of Indonesia has made an effo...
Wastewater treatment systems are under increasing pressure to improve nitrogen removal while reducing carbon emissions, yet the deployment of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) remains constrained by uncertainty about technical readiness, operati...
Although smart-city benchmarking has produced many indices and rankings, cities still lack a practical way to assess whether successful initiatives can be transferred across institutional contexts and converted into implementable urban roadmaps. In t...
Academic libraries have assumed expansive research data management (RDM) responsibilities, yet persistent dataset underutilisation suggests systemic disconnects between services and researcher needs. This scoping review applied a three-dimensional di...
6 October 2021
Although tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death and is elevated among patients with substance use disorders, many substance use treatment centers (SUTCs) do not offer tobacco use interventions (i.e., screening and treatment). This stud...
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is increasingly expected to advance circularity beyond conventional collection and recycling, yet performance varies across waste streams and implementation contexts. This systematic review evaluates EPR across...
Nature-based-solutions (NBS) pursue a combination of economic, social, and environmental benefits that can meet municipal goals on stormwater and rapid urbanization problems. However, NBS have fallen behind in reaching to the political and legal fram...
As product carbon footprint (PCF) quantification shifts from voluntary practice to regulatory requirement under mechanisms such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, evidence on implementation readiness in major exporting economies remains li...
In developed countries, the government primarily supports the adoption of BIM. However, adoption is typically driven by the preferences of industry professionals among construction organizations in developing countries, who rely on their BIM awarenes...
16 June 2025
Background: Tele-practice, as an evidence-based practice, has gained momentum over the last two decades. However, routine clinical adoption is not spontaneous. Implementation science facilitates stakeholder engagement and the assessment of needs and...
Industry 4.0 has managed to attract lots of attention from researchers because of the benefits it has to offer and many studies about Industry 4.0, as well as readiness and maturity models, are available from the technological point of view. Meanwhil...
A gap exists between the development and uptake of evidence-based health promotion programs in health care settings. One reason for this gap is lack of attention to organizational readiness. The objective of this study was to assess organizational re...
The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of teachers’ initial training (field of study, attending education for sustainable development (ESD) course/s) as well as student teachers’ socio-demographic characteristics (gender an...
Tourism provides many advantages for Sweden and the whole world, as well as its travelers. Since almost all types of tourism are currently in crisis as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, information and communication technology is expected to...
The Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MBND) in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) are a substantial improvement over their equivalent in t...
This article examines the challenges associated with implementing and applying the new valuation approaches introduced by IPSAS 46 in the public sector, specifically fair value and current operational value. The analysis is based on thematic survey d...
This study investigated university teachers’ perspectives on their change readiness to implement education for sustainable development (ESD) through their participation in a problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogical development (PD) program. The...
Teachers are the key factors in ensuring the effectiveness of STEM education, and their intentions deeply influence their teaching practices. The existing research about the influencing factors of teachers’ intentions to implement STEM educatio...
Procurement is the process of obtaining goods and services in a construction project and is a crucial point for the success of a design and build (DB) project. The success of a DB project has an effect on work performance metrics such as cost, qualit...
A comprehensive review of the literature indicates that there is a lack of research on the influence of all the organizational culture (OC) types on academics’ readiness and behavioral intention to implement eLearning changes in higher educatio...
Implementing sustainable tourism development is an essential part of the strategy to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and inclusive, sustainable economic growth. This research aimed to examine the level of readiness of the community to...
As educators play a pivotal role in advancing sustainable futures, understanding their readiness to translate sustainability-related knowledge and values into teaching practice has become an important concern in teacher education and professional dev...
Industry 4.0 includes digital process transformation, information technology (IT) development, mobile devices, learning software, automation, and robotics, as well as intelligent sensors to collect large datasets, store, analyze, and use them in busi...
4 February 2021
Evidence indicates that school-based sexuality education empowers children and adolescents with the skills, values, and attitudes that will enable them to appreciate their health and well-being, nourish respectful social and sexual relationships, und...
This study examines the implementation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the public sector through a systematic literature review. Despite growing scholarly attention, existing knowledge remains fragmented, lacking a comprehensive map of empirical e...
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