Special issue of the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal Sustainable decision making in a time of crisis: public and private perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Accounting Management ◽  
Sustainability Accounting

Sustainability accounting, management and policy in China: recent developments and future avenues

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 825-839
Author(s):  
Hongtao Shen ◽  
Artie W. Ng ◽  
John Zhang ◽  
Liyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Management ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Sustainability Accounting

Purpose This paper aims to reflect on the special issue that has collected studies by the research community in China pertinent to the country’s recent developments in sustainability accounting, management and policy, as well as to suggest possible future avenues of studies. Design/methodology/approach This paper articulates the current status of researching sustainability accounting, management and policy in China that is instigated by the country’s regulatory initiatives under its political economy. It highlights the papers accepted for the special issue, their areas of focus and the underlying characteristics. Findings It points out that the accepted research papers concentrate on issues related to corporate social responsibility disclosures, sustainability reporting and environmental management in China from the perspectives of the domestic stakeholders. Research limitations/implications Future studies are likely to be increasingly interdisciplinary in nature and requires academia, policymakers and practitioners to make better collaborative efforts in researching about China’s sustainability and the efficacy of their engagement with stakeholders. Practical implications Studies on alignment between China’s further developments and UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are particularly considered desirable as the country continues its globalization initiatives. Education about sustainability accounting for the working professionals and their next generation is much needed for China in support of developing a more sustainable economy aligned with UN's SDGs. Social implications Scholars in China actively developing their research interests in this field reflect critical thinking about the country’s pursuit of sustainable development within a social-political economy that is dissimilar to the West. In the meantime, the country continues to develop into a significant stakeholder of the world’s sustainability implying expectation of transparency in sustainability performance. Originality/value With reference to the review exercise conducted for the special issue, it suggests that there are surging interests in researching accountability for sustainability across the local and international communities to facilitate much needed knowledge exchange. The country and indigenous culture of China, as well as its institutions in relation to sustainability, would require much further exploration in our world under globalization.

scholarly journals Healthcare Data for Achieving a More Personalized Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease

Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Francisco Herrera-Gómez ◽  
F. Javier Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Prognostic Markers ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Personalized Treatment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Clinical Endpoints ◽  
Risk Patients

The current concept of healthcare incites a more personalized treatment of diseases. To this aim, biomarkers are needed to improve decision-making facing chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Prognostic markers provided by real-world (observational) evidence are proposed in this Special Issue entitled “Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease”, with the intention to identify high-risk patients. These markers do not target measurable parameters in patients but clinical endpoints that may be in turn transformed to benefits under the effect of future interventions.

scholarly journals Exploring patterns in psychiatric outpatients’ preferences for involvement in decision-making: a latent class analysis approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingunn Mundal ◽  
Mariela Loreto Lara-Cabrera ◽  
Moisés Betancort ◽  
Carlos De las Cuevas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatients ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Healthcare Settings

Abstract Background Shared decision-making (SDM), a collaborative approach that includes and respects patients’ preferences for involvement in decision-making about their treatment, is increasingly advocated. However, in the practice of clinical psychiatry, implementing SDM seems difficult to accomplish. Although the number of studies related to psychiatric patients’ preferences for involvement is increasing, studies have largely focused on understanding patients in public mental healthcare settings. Thus, investigating patient preferences for involvement in both public and private settings is of particular importance in psychiatric research. The objectives of this study were to identify different latent class typologies of patient preferences for involvement in the decision-making process, and to investigate how patient characteristics predict these typologies in mental healthcare settings. Methods We conducted latent class analysis (LCA) to identify groups of psychiatric outpatients with similar preferences for involvement in decision-making to estimate the probability that each patient belonged to a certain class based on sociodemographic, clinical and health belief variables. Results The LCA included 224 consecutive psychiatric outpatients’ preferences for involvement in treatment decisions in public and private psychiatric settings. The LCA identified three distinct preference typologies, two collaborative and one passive, accounting for 78% of the variance. Class 1 (26%) included collaborative men aged 34–44 years with an average level of education who were treated by public services for a depressive disorder, had high psychological reactance, believed they controlled their disease and had a pharmacophobic attitude. Class 2 (29%) included collaborative women younger than 33 years with an average level of education, who were treated by public services for an anxiety disorder, had low psychological reactance or health control belief and had an unconcerned attitude toward medication. Class 3 (45%) included passive women older than 55 years with lower education levels who had a depressive disorder, had low psychological reactance, attributed the control of their disease to their psychiatrists and had a pharmacophilic attitude. Conclusions Our findings highlight how psychiatric patients vary in pattern of preferences for treatment involvement regarding demographic variables and health status, providing insight into understanding the pattern of preferences and comprising a significant advance in mental healthcare research.

Expanding Foresight Evaluation Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Annette L. Gardner ◽  
Peter Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

The subject of evaluating foresight work has been around for almost as long as the professional practice itself has, but the field has done little to move closer to a systematic evaluation of its work. This special issue marks the second collection of articles on that project after a special issue of Futures in 2012 (Van Der Duin and Van Der Martin 2012). This issue takes a three-part approach: Part 1: evaluation of foresight in general and evaluation approaches and methods that can support designing an appropriate evaluation; Part 2: evaluation of foresight work in organizations and its impact on long-term thinking and decision-making; and Part 3: evaluation of specific foresight activities—an undergraduate learner foresight experience and a health sector scenario development exercise. The foreword ends with a reflection on the continuing issue of foresight and evaluation.

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue: “Feature Papers of Forecasting”

Forecasting ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-137
Author(s):  
Sonia Leva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Nowadays, forecasting applications are receiving unprecedent attention thanks to their capability to improve the decision-making processes by providing useful indications.[...]

Global Administrative Law: A Transnational Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-178
Author(s):  
Karl-Heinz Ladeur
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Actors

The most important phenomena attributable to the project of “global administrative law” (GAL) consists of rules, principles, practices, or procedures that have a more informal character and are generated from networks of public and private actors. The main characteristics of those rules is that they tend to be generated below the level of formal international treaties and that norm production occurs—at least in part—outside traditional formal modes of decision-making. However, some GAL norms including standards on products and services in particular, can have far reaching consequences as their factual weight is much more influential than domestic norms. GAL also develops new forms of procedure (e.g., voting) that are different from traditional international forms.

Introduction to Looked Class, Talked Red by Barbara Harlow

Race & Class ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neville Hoad
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ruth First

The author remembers his friend and colleague Barbara Harlow and provides an introductory context for the selection from her book-in-progress on Ruth First published in this special issue of Race & Class 60, no. 3 (2019). He describes just how Ruth First became of interest to Harlow, explaining the intersections of Ruth First’s personal history as a public intellectual with the history of decolonisation and the anti-apartheid movement, and the intersection of a ‘public’ and ‘private’ or domestic life. He speculates as to why the project of over thirty years remained unfinished in terms of a final publication.

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