Successful climate change mitigation requires the commitment of rapidly developing low-income countries. Although most of them have strategies to tackle a fair share of the burden, implementation is low despite large amounts of international aid. We...
Interpersonal and institutional distrust have become central concerns in debates on institutional legitimacy, particularly in contexts where education functions as a foundational arena of civic socialization. This systematic review examines how the S...
Universities increasingly align their activities with the Sustainable Development Goals, but institutional action, measurement, documentary evidence, external assessment, and substantive sustainability impact are not equivalent. This structured evide...
This paper addresses the persistent failure of major digital investments to achieve sustained smart technology adoption in developing countries, limiting productivity and business growth. Although existing research identifies institutional weaknesses...
Underground space is increasingly positioned in contemporary urban discourse as a strategic resource for sustainable spatial and territorial development, particularly under conditions of limited surface capacity, growing infrastructural demand, and t...
This paper aims at comparatively analyzing the IS process in three remarkable empirical cases. Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework and its categories for analysis are used to understand each process. A theoretical and analytical...
This study diagnoses institutional resilience in aging critical infrastructure under climate stress by developing the VILDE framework and deriving an AHP-based governance priority structure. Although climate-induced infrastructure failures are often...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed digital marketing in so many ways because it enables intelligent, personalized, and data-driven customer experiences. Nonetheless, current research remains fragmented, mostly because it emphasizes the dire...
Increasingly, adaptive processes and decentralization are vital aspects of watershed governance. Equitable and sustainable water governance requires an understanding that different societal members have unique relationships with the environment and v...
This research deals with the problem of the client–valuer relationship, possibly resulting in valuation biases. It aims to identify the influence of age and professional experience, along with other specific factors, on the perception and susce...
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are vital leverage points for climate action, yet the role of campus food environments in supporting these commitments is rarely assessed. This mixed-methods diagnostic study examined the food environment, sustain...
This study advances a governance-centred framework for understanding how artificial intelligence contributes to urban sustainability transitions. Drawing on systematic thematic analysis of 80 primary policy documents across five global cities—S...
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Following the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to examine the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness, which is defined as joint efforts to improve qual...
Digital trade rules have proliferated rapidly, yet the literature still treats institutional environments and firm behavior in a comparative-static manner, overlooking the feedback loops and stock-like accumulation dynamics through which regulatory o...
Recycling and recovery provide not only a sustainable option to decrease the volume of waste that needs final disposal, but also a blueprint to a circular economy. However, rates of recycling/recovery still remain very low on a global scale. While it...
South Korea is a highly import-dependent food economy and therefore offers a useful case for examining how an integrated national food control system can be built under trade openness, limited domestic agricultural capacity and changing consumer risk...
Evaluating Management Information System (MIS) effectiveness in tertiary education remains conceptually fragmented, with existing models primarily emphasizing technical performance rather than organizational interdependencies. This study develops a s...
For the past three decades, sustainable development (SD) at higher education institutions (HEIs) has been receiving increasing global attention based on the recognition of their vital roles in fostering sustainability teaching and practices on their...
Energy efficiency and conservation policy continues to take the proverbial “backseat” to energy access and renewable energy policy discourses in small island developing states (SIDS). In this study, we intend to motivate the energy efficiency policy...
With the intensifying deterioration of the global ecological environment and the continuous depletion of natural resources induced by human activities, the world is standing at a crossroads. As the largest developing country in the world, China has a...
There is a growing number of studies on the phenomenon of urbanization and family migration in China, but there is a lack of corresponding underlying logical constructs to explain the underlying patterns of the phenomenon. Based on the development of...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) primarily serve as centers of knowledge, capacity builders, and policy influencers and choose to voluntarily engage with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) as they are not mandated to imple...
Sustainable agricultural development in rural sub-Saharan Africa increasingly depends on coordinated governance of energy and water resources. Despite the growing deployment of solar photovoltaic water pumping systems (SPVWPS), little is known about...
Institutional evaluation in higher education is increasingly shaped by multiple, coexisting systems, including research assessment, university rankings, accreditation and quality assurance, and responsible research assessment. Although these systems...
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as a critical strategy to address the intertwined challenges of climate change, food insecurity, and environmental degradation, particularly among smallholder farmers in Southern Africa. This study reviews...
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the transformation of industrial design towards sustainability. However, a systematic integration framework that can effectively clarify how AI promotes sustainable product design acros...
Extent ecosystems of crypto financial assets (crypto-assets) lack parity and coherence across the globe. This asymmetry is further heightened with a knowledge gap in operational risk management, wherein the global landscape of crypto-assets is charac...
The transition into higher education is one of the most consequential junctures in a young person’s trajectory. Institutional retention is an institutional responsibility. When students leave before completing their degree, the default response...
The scale and scope of climate change has triggered widespread acknowledgement of the need to adapt to it. Out of recent work attempting to understand, define, and contribute to the family of concepts related to adaptation efforts, considerable contr...
In this paper, we elaborate an Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework centered around the ‘action arena’ theoretical approach. We develop this framework to analyze institutional reconfiguration to enhance sustainability, and operational...
This systematic review examines why empirical studies report conflicting effects of diversification on insurer performance and under what governance, risk-management, and institutional conditions diversification creates or destroys value. Following a...
Effective water resources management requires assessments of water availability within a framework of complex institutions and infrastructure employed to manage extremely variable stream flow shared by numerous, often competing, water users and diver...
Large language model (LLM)-based question-answering (QA) systems are rapidly being deployed in institutional environments, where queries often require both unstructured document retrieval and structured database access. This paper proposes a secure m...
This article examines the institutional evolution of university data governance in China through the lens of historical institutionalism, offering a novel perspective on this critical topic. This framework provides a structured approach to analyzing...
Background/Objectives: Burnout among healthcare professionals has become a major challenge affecting workforce sustainability, quality of care, and organizational performance. Although traditionally conceptualized as an individual response to chronic...
This study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) of 406 peer-reviewed studies on sustainability in higher education published between 2014 and 2025. Guided by the PRISMA 2020 framework and the PICo criteria, this review identifies thematic pa...
Cities are increasingly expected to achieve environmentally sustainable outcomes while simultaneously adapting to rapid technological transformation and growing governance complexity. However, sustainability performance in urban systems cannot be exp...
Major infrastructure investments alter accessibility and urban development patterns, yet their impact on housing prices varies significantly across regions. The prevailing interpretation attributes this heterogeneity to supply differences or regulato...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is being integrated rapidly across higher education, yet its educational value depends less on adoption intensity than on the institutional conditions through which its use is organized and enacted. This con...
This study proposes a comprehensive framework for integrating data-driven approaches into policy analysis and intervention strategies. The methodology is structured around five critical components: data collection, historical analysis, policy impact...
This article analyses the documentary institutional architecture of community social services in Spain through a comparative study of 15 autonomous communities, with particular attention to the formal conditions of institutional sustainability. Its a...
This study contributes to the development of performance measurement frameworks for HEIs in resource-constrained settings. It offers valuable insights for policymakers and institutional leaders in the Balkans, emphasizing the need for a holistic appr...
This paper aimed to identify the institutional readiness factors that would affect IoT adoption in library management in the future, validate their relevance in the Ghanaian higher education context and propose recommendations for an IoT adoption fra...
Institutions affect economic development and social stability, and the characteristics of institutional change are a complex and widely discussed topic. This paper constructs a theoretical analysis framework to describe the relationship between insti...
The SDGs and the New Urban Agenda both stress the importance of strengthening urban–rural linkages to promote balanced and inclusive development. Taking China as a case, this paper explores the underlying mechanisms driving the evolution of urb...
Voluntary and self-governing systems depend on citizens’ willingness to participate, cooperate, comply with rules, and sustain collective action, yet the psychological foundations of such engagement remain fragmented and insufficiently synthesi...
The purpose of this paper is to define a reference framework for introducing eLearning practices in mainly face-to-face higher education institutions. We suggest a suitable adoption and management of associated infrastructures and processes, in order...
According to the idea of safety structures as systemic, we developed a framework that emphasizes how the engagement of all relevant social agents could play an active role in the whole safety performance. The hypothesis of this paper is that a system...
Open Educational Resources (OER) are widely promoted as mechanisms for expanding access to knowledge and supporting sustainability in higher education. Yet their long-term viability remains constrained by fragmented governance, unstable funding arran...
This study examines how digital tax transformation contributes to fiscal sustainability through the interaction of technological, organizational, and institutional factors. Using a systematic literature review (SLR), the study synthesizes evidence on...
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