scholarly journals Methods of Developing Sustainable Competitiveness Indicators for Innovative Industrial Clusters

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-407
Author(s):  
Irina Krakovskaya ◽  
Nadezhda Guskova
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Research Level ◽  
The Social

The present article introduces a new system of indicators for assessing the sustainable competitiveness of innovative industrial clusters. The authors reviewed foreign and domestic approaches to monitoring and evaluating industrial clusters and classified them according to assessment type, research level, costs, and effects. Sustainable competitiveness proved to be the most complex characteristic of any cluster. It could be divided into two groups of parameters, i.e. 1) long-term competitiveness and 2) stability as a socio-ecological and economic system. Each group was given a list of indicators for quantitative and qualitative assessment, which included indicators of potential development, organization and management, socio-ecological and economic stability, etc. The research revealed some gaps in the Russian statistics of cluster development, which hinder the information support for monitoring and evaluating the sustainable competitiveness of clusters. As a result, the current databases on the social, economic, and environmental aspects of Russian clusters are fragmented and chronologically incompatible.

Impact of Customer Awareness and Buying Behavior on Sustainability Capability of Nestle SSCM

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Hifsa Hussain Raja ◽  
Fozia Mehboob ◽  
Dr. Raza Naqvia ◽  
Aqsa Hussain Raja ◽  
Samavia Hussain Raja
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Approach

Firm sustainability has been becoming increasingly significant for firms and has been considered as the main constituent of the social contract between society and business. We specifically chose Nestlé food and beverages and define sustainable development as a means to increase global access to nutritious food so that future generations will be able to contribute to sustainable social and economic stability and climate security. Our core business approach is to create long-term sustainable equity across Nestlé's 135-year existence for our customers, buyers, workers, shareholders, and the world as a whole. The Nestlé Values of the group say openly that we support long-term market growth in the short term. We urge managers not to do so at the risk of efficient, long-term growth while pledging ourselves to safe profits. Awareness of the consumers is important for improving the company's sustainable environmental development and supply chain management. To evaluate the role of client understanding in a sustainable supply chain we would like to examine the specific connection between consumer knowledge and their durability in the sustained management of the supply chain. In addition, the effect of customers on the viability of the supply chain processes in Nestle is strengthening. A computational model is proposed to test the importance and influence of customer awareness. It is necessary to increase knowledge about how sustainable supply chain management operates to boost organizations’ capacity to create a social and environmental difference in supply chains. We use SPSS software for data analysis and P-test, F-test, and T-test for analysis.

scholarly journals Context Mapping for Integrated Urban Development in Nepal: A Case Study of Aathbiskot Municipality, Rukum

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Mahendra Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Development Opportunity ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Position ◽  
Integrated Urban Planning ◽  
Future Growth

The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history, particularly since 1950s that accelerated further after 2000s. However, Nepal is experiencing a new political system of federalism, it is yet to be equipped with appropriate Acts and policies to foster the spirit of development and constitution at large. In this context, the present study sets a research question as of how a context mapping can be done before integrated urban planning of the municipalities. Methodologically, the study was conducted in Aathbiskot municipality of Rukum district. Involving both qualitative and qualitative techniques under the social constructivist epistemological position, the study was conducted on the basis of participatory approach through analytical methods, including SWOT analysis, Trend analysis, Ward analysis and Linkage analysis. The findings show that as an aspiring city, Aathbiskot Municipality has diverse prospects and sectors of development that would drive its future growth but identifying some lead sectors and potential development opportunity of the municipality based on its own strength and individuality would what make municipality grow better and prosper. The study strongly claims inferences for the homogeneity in the long-term vision setting, however, maintaining through heterogeneity in the specific plans and strategies for the different wards of the municipality.

scholarly journals Principles and Directions of Long-Term Stimulation of Innovation Activity in the Social Sphere

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
D. A. Serebryakov
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution ◽  
Stimulation Of

The article describes the main functions of socially oriented innovation in connection with technical innovations  – drivers of the third industrial revolution. Analysis of domestic and foreign innovative publications helped to formulate the basic principles of innovation in the social sphere. Directions of long-term stimulation of innovation activity in conditions of digital transformation have been developed. They are based on basic principles. It is also shown that the socio-economic development of the country should be based on qualitative population growth. Otherwise, the strategic importance of socio-economic policy is nulled and futuristic uncertainty comes. It is proposed to stimulate innovation in social sectors by increasing the innovative mentality of future generations of Belarusian people, improving the exchange of data in the system of information support of science, and by increasing the number of available sources of financing for innovations.

Slovene premier's fall might end privatisation policy

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Stability ◽  
Strategic Assets ◽  
Privatisation Programme ◽  
Growth Prospects

Subject The challenge to Slovenia's privatisation programme. Significance Slovenia's privatisation programme faces a new challenge with the emergence of an open rift between the ruling Modern Centre Party (SMC) and one of its coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SD), over the behaviour of Defence Minister Janki Veber. The first casualty will be Telekom Slovenije, whose sale will inevitably be postponed. The wider privatisation programme is also at risk from persistent public hostility to the sale of strategic assets. Impacts The latest rift will weaken government stability and could cause it to collapse. The open display of dissent over privatisation will both deter strategic investors and complicate further sales of state-owned assets. Failure to deliver on the privatisation programme poses a risk to Slovenia's economic stability and long-term growth prospects.

Economic Development in 2006 and the Future of the Russian Economy: The Non-Resource-Based Sector Potential (The Economic Report of All-Russia Business Union “Delovaya Rossiya”)

2007 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
B. Titov ◽  
I. Pilipenko ◽  
A. Danilov-Danilyan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Export Industries ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

The report considers how the state economic policy contributes to the national economic development in the midterm perspective. It analyzes main current economic problems of the Russian economy, i.e. low effectiveness of the social system, high dependence on export industries and natural resources, high monopolization and underdeveloped free market, as well as barriers that hinder non-recourse-based business development including high tax burden, skilled labor deficit and lack of investment capital. We propose a social-oriented market economy as the Russian economic model to achieve a sustainable economic growth in the long-term perspective. This model is based on people’s prosperity and therefore expanding domestic demand that stimulates the growth of domestic non-resource-based sector which in turn can accelerate annual GDP growth rates to 10-12%. To realize this model "Delovaya Rossiya" proposes a program that consists of a number of directions and key groups of measures covering priority national projects, tax, fiscal, monetary, innovative-industrial, trade and social policies.

Threatening Conditions and Challenges in the Modern Living of the Old People in Republic of Macedonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Hava Rexhep
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Diseases ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Functional Dependency ◽  
Old People ◽  
Stomach Diseases ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Build System

The aging is not only a personal but also a social challenge from several aspects, several dimensions; a challenge aiming to build system approaches and solutions with a long term importance. Aims: the main aim of this research is to investigate the conditions and challenges in the modern living of the old people, primarily in terms of the social care. However, this research is concentrated on a big group of the population and their challenges are the most intensive in the modern living. The investigation of the conditions and challenges in the aging are basis and encouragement in realizing the progressive approaches in order to improve the modern living of the old people. The practical aim of the research is a deep investigation and finding important data, analyzing the basic indicators of the conditions, needs and challenges in order to facilitate the old population to get ready for the new life. Methods and techniques: Taking into consideration the complexity of the research problem, the basic methodological approach is performed dominantly by descriptive-analytical method. The basic instrument for getting data in the research is the questionnaire with leading interview for the old people. Results: The research showed that the old people over 70-79 years old in a bigger percentage manifested difficulties primarily related to the functional dependency, respectively 39,33 % of the participants in this category showed concern about some specific functional dependency from the offered categories. The percentage of the stomach diseases with 38,33 % is important, as well as the kidney diseases with 32,83% related to the total population and the category of the old people over 80. Conclusion: The old people very often accept the life as it is, often finding things fulfilled with tolerance and satisfaction. However the health problems of the old people are characterized with a dominant representation. The chronic diseases and the diseases characteristic for the aging are challenge in organizing adequate protection which addresses to taking appropriate regulations, programs and activities.

Heterogeneous Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19: Costs and Benefits

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony D Mancini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Substantial Variation ◽  
Mental Health Functioning ◽  
Health Functioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Health Costs ◽  
Long Term Impact

In this commentary, I argue that the mental health impact of COVID-19 will show substantial variation across individuals, contexts, and time. Further, one key contributor to this variation will be the proximal and long-term impact of COVID-19 on the social environment. In addition to the mental health costs of the pandemic, it is likely that a subset of people will experience improved social and mental health functioning.

Unmaking and Remaking the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Lisa Guenther
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Civil Death

In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry analyzes the structure of torture as an unmaking of the world in which the tools that ought to support a person’s embodied capacities are used as weapons to break them down. The Security Housing Unit (SHU) of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison functions as a weaponized architecture of torture in precisely this sense; but in recent years, prisoners in the Pelican Bay Short Corridor have re-purposed this weaponized architecture as a tool for remaking the world through collective resistance. This resistance took the form of a hunger strike in which prisoners exposed themselves to the possibility of biological death in order to contest the social and civil death of solitary confinement. By collectively refusing food, and by articulating the meaning and motivation of this refusal in articles, interviews, artwork, and legal documents, prisoners reclaimed and expanded their perceptual, cognitive, and expressive capacities for world-making, even in a space of systematic torture.

Major Approaches to Assessing the Fiscal Sustainability of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 577-583
Author(s):  
L. A. Tuaeva ◽  
I. Z. Toguzova ◽  
S. K. Tokaeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State And Local

The presented study develops theoretical and methodological foundations for assessing the fiscal sustainability of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in perspective.Aim. The study aims to develop a systems approach to assessing the fiscal sustainability of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the medium and long term.Tasks. The authors analyze the major approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects and determine the significance of quantitative and qualitative assessment methods in the development of a methodology for assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects in the medium and long term.Methods. This study uses scientific methods of cognition, analysis and synthesis, comparison and analogy, systems and institutional approaches to assess the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects.Results. The authors examine the major approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects developed by Russian scientific schools and disciplines; approaches used by state and local authorities; approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects used by international and national rating agencies; foreign experience. In general, this implies the development of a universal system of indicators for assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects.Conclusions. It is substantiated that under the current conditions of new challenges, particularly in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to assess the long-term balance and sustainability of the budgets of federal subjects using a systems approach based on quantitative and qualitative methods, making allowance for the medium- and long-term prospects to make efficient management decisions at different levels of the economic system.

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