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  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
42,869 Views
27 Pages

There are numerous studies and publications about sustainable agriculture. Many papers argue that sustainable agriculture is necessary, and analyze how this goal could be achieved. At the same time, studies question the sustainability of agriculture....

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
16,051 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2018

The implementation of sustainable systems is an essential requirement in modern manufacturing, in order to minimize the environmental and health concerns, and conserves energy and natural resources. The sustainable manufacturing approach is identifie...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,354 Views
19 Pages

7 January 2022

To slow down climate warming and achieve sustainable development, the Paris Agreement attempts to establish cooperative approaches (Article 6.2 in the Paris Agreement) and a sustainable development mechanism (Article 6.4 in the Paris Agreement) for c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
706 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2025

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) plays a pivotal role in facilitating a sustainable transformation. A prerequisite for the successful implementation of ESD is the coordinated cooperation of stakeholders from different levels of the educati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,851 Views
42 Pages

1 February 2024

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure is significant for sustainable development. This review aims to identify the factors influencing sustainable civil infrastructure SHM implementation and analyze the properties, paths, and con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
15,979 Views
21 Pages

9 November 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,511 Views
14 Pages

5 April 2023

Over the last years, there has been a significant increase in interest in sustainable development in higher education institutions, and many have begun to implement sustainable development into their system. Several sustainable development assessment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
868 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2025

Market-oriented ecological restoration is vital for advancing ecological civilization and promoting harmonious human–nature relationships. However, the precise implementation pathway remains unclear. Few studies specifically address challenges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,020 Views
22 Pages

11 April 2021

One of the key challenges for climate policies is the identification of strategies that will effectively support the implementation of environmental goals. Environmental policies are connected with other development policies carried out by government...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,491 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2019

This study examines the effects of collaborative and implementation activities on environmental performance for sustainable supply chain management. Specifically, the proposed research investigates the moderating effect of firm size on the effect rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,397 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2021

This research reports the role of disaster policy implementation achieving disaster risk reduction (DRR) and sustainable development (SD) in Sierra Leone. The factors were highlighted to help policymakers measure disaster risk perception (DRP), disas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
20,057 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2016

A key but contentious aspect of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the means of implementation (MOI). Many developing countries emphasize the importance of international assistance while developed countries focus more on domestic financing and t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,258 Views
11 Pages

5 March 2021

While substance use disorders (SUD) continue to be a global concern, harm reduction approaches can provide sustainable harm minimization to people who inject drugs (PWID) without requiring abstinence. Yet, the evidence for the sustainable implementat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
16,830 Views
18 Pages

BIM-Based Research Framework for Sustainable Building Projects: A Strategy for Mitigating BIM Implementation Barriers

  • Bilal Manzoor,
  • Idris Othman,
  • Syed Shujaa Safdar Gardezi,
  • Haşim Altan and
  • Salem Buhashima Abdalla

10 June 2021

Although Building Information Modeling (BIM) can enhance efficiency of sustainable building projects, its adoption is still plagued with barriers. In order to incorporate BIM more efficiently, it is important to consider and mitigate these barriers....

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,114 Views
12 Pages

Challenges Presented in the Implementation of Sustainable Energy Management via ISO 50001:2011

  • Izabela Simon Rampasso,
  • Geraldo Pereira Melo Filho,
  • Rosley Anholon,
  • Robson Amarante de Araujo,
  • Gilson Brito Alves Lima,
  • Luis Perez Zotes and
  • Walter Leal Filho

11 November 2019

Considering the importance of ISO 50001 in sustainable development, the objective of this research is to identify the challenges found by organizations during the implementation of ISO 50001:2011, according to the literature. To address this objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,524 Views
20 Pages

Development of sustainable tourism is viewed through the scope of planning procedure, participation of all stakeholders, and resolving possible conflicts. The methodology is based on empirical exploration and compared two case studies of the Middle D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,596 Views
19 Pages

Factors Facilitating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Regional and Local Planning—Experiences from Norway

  • Kjersti Granås Bardal,
  • Mathias Brynildsen Reinar,
  • Aase Kristine Lundberg and
  • Maiken Bjørkan

12 April 2021

Successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on regional and local authorities’ ability to implement the goals in their respective contexts. Through a survey and interviews with informants in Norwegian municipalities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,154 Views
18 Pages

9 August 2019

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
19,979 Views
28 Pages

25 August 2015

The acceptance of corporate sustainability implementation and sustainability reporting has continued to grow steadily in recent years. This is particularly true for companies in the automotive industry. Increasing regulatory demands, for example, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,489 Views
13 Pages

3 December 2024

Tourism’s vulnerability to crises underscores the need for new or adapted tourism policies that prioritize sustainable tourism development across ecological, economic, and stakeholder dimensions. While past research has highlighted the relevanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,268 Views
15 Pages

What Teachers Think and Know about Education for Sustainable Development and How They Implement it in Class

  • Eva-Maria Waltner,
  • Katja Scharenberg,
  • Christian Hörsch and
  • Werner Rieß

24 February 2020

After the end of the first Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, coinciding with ongoing international evaluation processes, questions about the implementation of the Education for Sustainable Development programs and asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,009 Views
24 Pages

Critical Success Factors of Sustainability Implementation in the Construction Industry

  • Esra Dobrucali,
  • Sevilay Demirkesen,
  • Chengyi Zhang,
  • Atilla Damci and
  • Deniz Besiktepe

18 November 2024

Sustainability is one of the emerging areas in building construction, and it is widely investigated in terms of bringing sustainable technology into construction. However, one of the biggest challenges in the construction industry is implementing sus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,729 Views
24 Pages

22 November 2018

Companies, striving towards an effective and systematic integration of a strategic sustainability perspective in product innovation, need to treat the implementation of necessary processes and tools, as well as their continuous improvement, as a proj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,281 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2018

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an IT system that supports the business functions that firms adopt to gain advantages and development possibilities. However, some firms do not show positive financial performance after implementing ERP. Why is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,647 Views
16 Pages

Implementing Industry 4.0 through Cleaner Production and Social Stakeholders: Holistic and Sustainable Model

  • Walter Cardoso Satyro,
  • Jose Celso Contador,
  • Jose Luiz Contador,
  • Marco Aurélio Fragomeni,
  • Sonia Francisca de Paula Monken,
  • Ana Freitas Ribeiro,
  • Anderson Ferreira de Lima,
  • Jansen Anderson Gomes,
  • José Roberto do Nascimento and
  • Victor Henrique Martins de Souza
  • + 3 authors

12 November 2021

Although Industry 4.0 has received much attention in recent years due to the possibility of increasing companies’ productivity, the implementation process is complex. The aim of this study is to present a holistic model for implementing Industry 4.0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
12,721 Views
16 Pages

Adoption and Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in China—Agenda 2030

  • Siming Yu,
  • Muhammad Safdar Sial,
  • Dang Khoa Tran,
  • Alina Badulescu,
  • Phung Anh Thu and
  • Mariana Sehleanu

4 August 2020

The present research is conducted on the Chinese corporate sector and raises the basic questions associated with the adoption and implementation of corporate disclosure practices such as SDGs. The sample for this research consisted of 100 Chinese com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
16,326 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2019

The purpose of this research is to propose a Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) implementation framework grounded in a literature review while categorizing practices adopted by firms’ and industries. Given the evolution of the SSCM fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,431 Views
12 Pages

Campus Managers’ Role in Innovation Implementation for Sustainability on Dutch University Campuses

  • Mathilda du Preez,
  • Monique H. Arkesteijn,
  • Alexandra C. den Heijer and
  • Małgorzata Rymarzak

6 December 2022

Internationally, the ambition to achieve a sustainable built environment is becoming urgent. On the university campus, this vision, combined with unparalleled access to innovative technologies for sustainable development enables/urges universities to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,818 Views
21 Pages

10 November 2022

To cope with the increasing importance of sustainability, the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) has been developed to support companies integrating the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability into their business. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
12,021 Views
20 Pages

Business Sustainability of Small and Medium Enterprises during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of AIS Implementation

  • Abdalwali Lutfi,
  • Akif Lutfi Al-Khasawneh,
  • Mohammed Amin Almaiah,
  • Adi Alsyouf and
  • Mahmaod Alrawad

29 April 2022

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the pillars on which most businesses worldwide rest. Thus, without the support of qualified information systems, it can be very challenging for them to improve their performance and difficult for them to reach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,761 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2022

The UAE has officially launched the Big Data initiative in the year 2022; however, the interest in and adoption of Big Data technologies and strategies had started much earlier in the private and public sectors. This research aims to explore the perc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,765 Views
24 Pages

13 June 2025

Businesses are facing increasing pressure to transition to a sustainable economy, requiring the integration of environmental, social, and economic aspects into their corporate strategies. Despite the proliferation of sustainability frameworks, many c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,648 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2024

This paper identifies the major aspects that affect the sustainability of organizations in terms of success and failure of IT implementation projects. A significant relationship between the deployment of internal project teams and sustainable results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
15 Pages

Implementation of Strategic Sustainability Frameworks in the Context of Family Business: A Quantitative Analysis

  • Mariana Sedliačiková,
  • Antonín Korauš,
  • Denis Pinka,
  • Martin Halász and
  • Patrik Javorčík

9 October 2025

Family business, which represents a significant segment of the global economy, combines family values with business activities. Building a strategy for sustainability in family businesses is a crucial factor for their long-term stability, development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,719 Views
21 Pages

11 October 2021

The infrastructure construction sector is a significant source of carbon emissions, and more stringent procurement requirements are central to meeting reduction targets in this demand-led and project-based industry. This paper aims to analyze the imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
14,052 Views
18 Pages

3 April 2015

The terms sustainability, scaling up, and enabling environment are inconsistently used in implementing water supply projects. To clarify these terms we develop a framework based on Normalization Process Theory, and apply the framework to a hypothetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,335 Views
12 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,507 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2024

Industry 4.0 cannot be understood without sustainable development, being an essential condition for ensuring market success, economic growth, and minimal environmental impact. Considering the increase in interest for applying Industry 4.0 principles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,594 Views
32 Pages

Background: Sustainability in supply chain management (SCM) practices is becoming increasingly important as environmental responsibility and social concerns, as well as enterprises’ competitiveness in terms of innovation, risk, and economic per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,931 Views
12 Pages

12 April 2016

This paper simultaneously examines how the design of management control systems and top management team composition help organizations to implement environmental sustainability policies successfully. It also analyzes the effect of those policies on b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,309 Views
23 Pages

The Impact of Technological Innovation on Industry 4.0 Implementation and Sustainability: An Empirical Study on Malaysian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

  • Sreenivasan Jayashree,
  • Mohammad Nurul Hassan Reza,
  • Chinnasamy Agamudai Nambi Malarvizhi,
  • Hesti Maheswari,
  • Zohre Hosseini and
  • Azilah Kasim

9 September 2021

Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the pillars on which most of the economies worldwide rest. Without the support of qualified technological innovation, it will be very difficult for SMEs’ performance to improve and impossible for them to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,991 Views
26 Pages

Harmonizing Sustainability and Resilience: The Integral Role of Internal Audit in ESG Implementation—A Review

  • Spyridon D. Lampropoulos,
  • Georgios L. Thanasas,
  • Alexandros Garefalakis and
  • Ioannis Passas

This comprehensive literature review delves into the dynamic role of Internal Audit (IA) in addressing sustainability, resilience, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations within organizations. It addresses two fundamental inqui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,849 Views
30 Pages

16 January 2019

The need for understanding the context of the case company during Design for Sustainability (DfS) implementation has been a long identified need among the researchers in the field. Yet, studies on company context have primarily focused on studying,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
895 Citations
50,565 Views
24 Pages

18 January 2018

The implementation of Industry 4.0 has a far-reaching impact on industrial value creation. Studies on its opportunities and challenges for companies are still scarce. However, the high practical and theoretical relevance of digital and connected manu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,124 Views
24 Pages

31 October 2024

In high-density cities around the world, the contradiction of sustaining development and limited resources has become more evident. Transforming historic industrial buildings, through both functional and spatial adjustments, has emerged as a key stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,853 Views
26 Pages

20 May 2025

Societies need to develop more sustainable ways of living, working, and doing business. Education for sustainable development (ESD) plays a pivotal role in this endeavor. The aim is to provide people with the necessary knowledge, values, and skills f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,440 Views
10 Pages

30 November 2015

The idea of sustainable development has been present in the field of management for many years, yet the challenges and rules of contemporary business mean that it remains topical. At the same time, the results of much research indicates an unsatisfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,705 Views
9 Pages

Sustainable Implementation of Access Control

  • Mihaela Muntean and
  • Laurenţiu Dijmărescu

30 May 2018

Sustainable implementation of access control implies approaches at different levels. Beyond the authorization framework at application level, the demarche will be strengthened by providing security objects at database level. In terms of sustainable i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,379 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2021

The aim of this study is to define, via an online expert survey, current challenges and possible future approaches in and for the implementation, application, and interpretation of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Using an online surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,496 Views
13 Pages

8 March 2013

There is increasing interest in the role that schools can play in promoting education for sustainable development (ESD), and evidence is emerging that schools can be influential in the emerging agenda around the ecological, ethical and social aspects...

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