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  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,773 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2021

Collaboration is problematic in the public sector, yet many smart city theorists advocate relationships fully dependent upon collaboration to address the intense complexity encountered by city governments and achieve city objectives of quality of lif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,568 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2020

The intervention of intermediaries in supporting collaboration for sustainability is considered an effective way to address the challenges faced by all parties involved in this type of commitment. Our paper includes several less frequently approached...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,092 Views
38 Pages

A Comprehensive Literature Review on Sustainable Horizontal Collaboration

  • Nassim Mrabti,
  • Nadia Hamani and
  • Laurent Delahoche

16 September 2022

Horizontal collaboration is one of the most effective strategies applied to address issues related to sustainability and the adverse effects of commodity distribution. Although it has received increased attention in recent years, no synthesis has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
29,212 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2020

The need to consider sustainability has substantially increased the complexity of implementing construction and infrastructure projects and new management practices have emerged during the past decade to tackle the global sustainability challenges, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
387 Views
25 Pages

29 December 2025

Literature on digital collaboration often focuses on individual aspects, but rarely combines them into a unified, practical and sustainability-friendly management tool. The paper fills this critical gap by presenting a comprehensive framework for enh...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
734 Views
9 Pages

20 November 2025

Today’s cross-regional supply chains face rising disruptions from geopolitical conflicts and climate-related events, alongside increasing pressure to meet sustainability goals. This study explores how supplier collaboration and trust influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,162 Views
26 Pages

26 May 2021

Sustainable manufacturing plays a role in ensuring products’ economic characteristics and reducing energy and resource consumption by improving the well-being of human workers and communities and maintaining safety. Using robots is one way for manufa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,970 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2019

Today’s environmental challenges have been determined and exacerbated by human behavior. It is imperative that education develops learning-settings that enable students to make their individual lifestyles more sustainable. The aim of this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,689 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2021

This paper describes the importance of including a Human-Centred Design (HCD) approach for successful university–industry collaboration. We detail user surveys and user evaluation techniques to engage end-users for the rejuvenation of manufacturing i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,051 Views
16 Pages

Research Collaboration Patterns in Sustainable Mining—A Co-Authorship Analysis of Publications

  • Magdalena Bemke-Świtilnik,
  • Aneta Drabek,
  • Anna Małgorzata Kamińska and
  • Adam Smoliński

10 June 2020

This article quantitatively examines the patterns of collaborative research in the field of sustainable development of the mining sector. The study is based on bibliographic data of 4420 Scopus index research articles published in the period 1983&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,108 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2020

The transition towards sustainable cities cannot be solved by individual stakeholders and organisations acting alone. Better governance for tackling such complex problems, including policy change and innovation adoption, will require purposeful colla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,986 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2017

Recently, innovative changes in information technology (IT) trends, such as cloud computing and deep learning, have led IT companies to focus on collaboration for sustainable growth. This paper investigates collaboration strategies and success factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,067 Views
23 Pages

19 August 2022

Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary collaboration (TDC) continue to address complex societal problems such as sustainable development, global environmental change, and public health challenges. Nature-based design (NBD) method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,870 Views
21 Pages

Augmented Reality in A Sustainable Engineering Design Context: Understanding Students’ Collaboration and Negotiation Practices

  • Mobina Beheshti,
  • Eunice Yujin Kang,
  • Shulong Yan,
  • Emanuel Louime,
  • Caitlyn Hancock and
  • Avneet Hira

31 December 2023

This study reports on the use of augmented reality (AR) within the context of sustainable engineering design education. The objective of this study is to understand students’ collaboration and negotiation practices in a sustainable engineering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
222 Views
44 Pages

29 December 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a core technology driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution and serves as a foundation for sustainable technological competitiveness. Despite the rapid growth of AI-related patent filings in Korea, the overall quality o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,251 Views
43 Pages

12 May 2023

Challenges involving economic, environmental, and societal aspects necessitate organisations in business networks to collaborate. The scientific problem central to this paper is the difficulty of building sustainable collaborations. The research ques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,746 Views
26 Pages

18 June 2020

There is a significant research gap in the theory of the nature of relationships between companies and other organizations (including NGOs) when collaborating on projects to support sustainable development goals. In particular, the company perspectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,191 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2025

Collaboration among employees is critical to achieving sustainability goals. This article explains how employee engagement fosters the socio-economic dimension of sustainability, both for the organization and society. As is well known, there is a con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,152 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2025

This study investigates how staycations enhance the experiences of staycationers and foster stakeholder collaboration to promote sustainable tourism. A qualitative case study approach, guided by constructivist narrative inquiry, involved in-depth int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,017 Views
19 Pages

19 April 2019

Stakeholder collaboration has become a critical issue in sustainable tourism policy due to the increasing complexity and interdisciplinary nature of the domain. Policymaking should reflect tourism values through a dynamic system in which stakeholders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,915 Views
20 Pages

16 April 2022

The rapid ongoing digital transformation creates new opportunities to generate value but also challenges companies in the manufacturing industry to adapt to the recent changes. Moreover, committing to sustainability is essential to maintain competiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,723 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2025

The sustainable development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depends on effective collaboration among the government–industry–academia (GIA). Drawing on the Triple Helix theory, this study examines how the GIA interacts within emerging AV eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,873 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2018

Dealing with the great challenges of the 21st century requires far reaching changes in the lifestyle and perceptions of humans to ensure an appropriate quality of life for all, now and in the future. To provide people with the necessary competencies,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,456 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable Urban Mobility for Road Information Discovery-Based Cloud Collaboration and Gaussian Processes

  • Ali Louati,
  • Hassen Louati,
  • Elham Kariri,
  • Wafa Neifar,
  • Mohammed A. Farahat,
  • Heba M. El-Hoseny,
  • Mohamed K. Hassan and
  • Mutaz H. H. Khairi

19 February 2024

A novel cloud-based collaborative estimation framework for traffic management, utilizing a Gaussian Process Regression approach is introduced in this work. Central to addressing contemporary challenges in sustainable transportation, the framework is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,578 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable Practices in Manufacturing SMEs: The Importance of Technological Collaboration between Supply Chain Partners

  • Cristina López-Cózar-Navarro,
  • Tiziana Priede-Bergamini and
  • Diego Cuello-de-Oro-Celestino

20 June 2024

The development of new technologies within Industry 4.0 (I4.0) may serve as a catalyst in the development of sustainable practices (SP), particularly in the case of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This paper contributes to the literature by exam...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,985 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2025

The proliferation of diverse multi-stakeholder partnering arrangements that seek to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has prompted calls for overarching standards to enhance their governance, legitimacy and effectiveness. This conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,403 Views
18 Pages

8 September 2022

Sharing global knowledge and practices while adapting them to local contexts is a central concern in innovation and sustainable development. In this paper, we examined how intermediary organisations promoting innovation can foster and enable the diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,505 Views
14 Pages

15 December 2022

This study was conducted to propose and identify suggestions for pathways to maintain the sustainability of the pearl industry, a cultural value asset rooted in the region, and to revitalize coastal communities through the pearl industry. Using a qua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,225 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2024

The Integration of Professional Education and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education (IPEIEE) has been recognized as an important direction for the development of higher education in enhancing the innovation and entrepreneurship awareness and abil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,266 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2020

The complex sustainability challenges that society faces require organisations to engage in collaborative partnerships. Stakeholders affect, and are affected by an organisation’s sustainability activities, making it an important element when de...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
41 Citations
13,955 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Collaborative Healthcare in Improving Social Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework

  • Tahereh Maghsoudi,
  • Rosalía Cascón-Pereira and
  • Ana Beatriz Hernández Lara

15 April 2020

Healthcare systems around the world face both increasing demands and inequality in service distribution. The current trend is for collaboration among healthcare actors, named as collaborative healthcare, in order to address challenges such as these t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,481 Views
19 Pages

Road to Sustainability: University–Start-Up Collaboration

  • Korapin Jirapong,
  • Karina Cagarman and
  • Laura von Arnim

29 May 2021

Considerations on sustainability have growing attention not only for scholars and businesses, but also for almost everyone. However, accomplishing sustainable progress is complicated and cannot be completely reached by single individuals or organizat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
15,175 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2024

This study aims to develop a multifaceted conceptual basis for employee collaboration with regard to promoting organizational sustainability, which encompasses environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Employing a mixed-methods framework, the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,502 Views
18 Pages

18 May 2020

The presented manuscript represents a new simulation modeling approach, which evaluates the impact of collaborative workplaces on manufacturing sustainability in terms of workplaces’ cost, flow times and electrical energy consumption. The impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,196 Views
19 Pages

Sustainable Collaborative Innovation between Research Institutions and Seed Enterprises in China

  • Xi Yu,
  • Krishna P. Paudel,
  • Dongmei Li,
  • Xiaolei Xiong and
  • Yanyu Gong

15 January 2020

Public research institutions are encouraged to engage in industry sustainable collaboration in China. We develop an analytical framework based on the factor-process-outputs model and use a mechanism model by incorporating four elements (innovation cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,986 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2021

Advances in information and communication technologies and, more specifically, in artificial intelligence resulted in more intelligent systems, which, in the business world, particularly in collaborative business ecosystems, can lead to a more stream...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
13,007 Views
21 Pages

Collaboration for Sustainability in the Food Supply Chain: A Multi-Stage Study in Italy

  • Verónica León-Bravo,
  • Federico Caniato,
  • Maria Caridi and
  • Thomas Johnsen

18 July 2017

The objective of this study is twofold. Firstly, to analyze sustainability practices adopted in collaboration, including vertical collaboration i.e., with other actors or stages upstream or downstream in the supply chain, and horizontal collaboration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,077 Views
32 Pages

28 September 2021

The development of sustainable innovation (SI) is complex and risky due to the characteristics and diversity of actors involved in its process. Little is known about the collaborative process underlying this development. The objective of the paper is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,367 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2021

Constructive collaboration with host communities while maintaining their traditional culture is crucial when planning tourism ventures, particularly if ensuring sustainability is considered important. This paper investigates the cultural sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,077 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2016

Facing sharp competition in the market for shipping companies, it is necessary to make reasonable and efficient decisions to optimize the container shipping line network so as to improve the shipping efficiency and reduce the transportation cost, as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,119 Views
29 Pages

The Influence of Collaboration Initiatives on the Sustainability of the Cashew Supply Chain

  • Susana G. Azevedo,
  • Minelle E. Silva,
  • João C. O. Matias and
  • Gustavo P. Dias

19 June 2018

Collaboration is emerging as a requirement for strengthening relationships among supply chain members and sustainability is rising as a real-world solution for different environmental issues. There are numerous studies that approach both perspectives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,210 Views
17 Pages

12 January 2018

Collaborative governance plays a critical role in guiding the whole supply chain to achieve its strategic goals. Today’s tremendously changing and competitive business environment imposes a significant challenge for firms to sustain a balance between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
12,569 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2013

Sustainability issues involve complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors that are often viewed quite differently by disparate stakeholder groups. Issues of non-sustainability are wicked problems that have many, often obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,004 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2023

Innovation ecosystems have increasingly been studied from various perspectives, including connecting innovation ecosystems to sustainable development. Extant studies have found that innovation is important for sustainable development, collaboration i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,284 Views
12 Pages

14 January 2019

The current business paradigm entails a narrow, profit-centered and managerially-focused nature. This article proposes that the study of the collaborative economy necessitates an inevitable shift in the conventional business paradigm and suggests tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,479 Views
17 Pages

Assessing Collaborative Capabilities for Sustainability in Interorganizational Networks

  • Juliana Maria Gonçalves de Almeida,
  • Cláudia Fabiana Gohr and
  • Luciano Costa Santos

23 November 2020

Sustainability in interorganizational networks depends on developing collaborative capabilities for this purpose. However, to improve their collaborative capabilities for sustainability (CCS), companies in interorganizational networks need methods to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,787 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2025

This study examined the impact of supply chain collaboration (SCC) on supply chain innovation (SCI) and sustainability performance in the context of manufacturing firms in Jordan. The study also investigated the mediating role of SCI in the relations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,691 Views
24 Pages

Learnings from Local Collaborative Transformations: Setting a Basis for a Sustainability Framework

  • Pedro Macedo,
  • Ana Huertas,
  • Cristiano Bottone,
  • Juan del Río,
  • Nicola Hillary,
  • Tommaso Brazzini,
  • Julia M. Wittmayer and
  • Gil Penha-Lopes

21 January 2020

The complexity of the sustainability challenge demands for collaboration between different actors, be they governments, businesses, or grassroots movements, at all levels. Nevertheless, and according to previous research, many tensions and obstacles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
274 Views
19 Pages

2 December 2025

Addressing the urgent need for sustainable transformation in higher education, this paper explores how a collaborative action research group of teacher educators from different institutions contributed to higher education transformation through susta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,356 Views
23 Pages

The Landscapes of Sustainability in the Library and Information Science: Collaboration Insights

  • Anna Małgorzata Kamińska,
  • Łukasz Opaliński and
  • Łukasz Wyciślik

15 December 2022

Despite the fact that the concept of sustainable development was born as early as the late 1980s, in the field of library and information science there has been a significant growth in interest only in recent years. This observation inspired the auth...

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