scholarly journals Introduction to the Minitrack on Software Sustainability: Strategies for Long-Lasting and Usable Research Software

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maytal Dahan ◽  
Sandra Gesing ◽  
Joe Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Research Software ◽  
Sustainability Strategies

The Green Team

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Jones
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Corporate Environmentalism ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Large Corporations

This chapter examines the greening of large conventional firms since 1980, the acquisition of many green entrepreneurial firms, and the rise of “greenwashing.” While noting that this development appeared to signal the success of green business, and the scaling needed for sustainability to make a real impact, there were also major problems. In particular, there were frequent and large gaps between corporate rhetoric and reality, threatening consumer disillusion and making it harder for more genuinely green firms to make their distinctive case. Corporate environmentalism was also constrained by the huge pressure on firms to meet quarterly returns, making it hard for large corporations to pursue truly radical sustainability strategies.

Exploring Global Fashion Sustainability Practices through Dictionary-Based Text Mining

2021 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2199826
Author(s):  
Muzhen Li ◽  
Li Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Line Theory ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
Sustainability Theory

Nowadays, more fashion companies have started to adopt various sustainability practices and communicate these practices through their annual public CSR reports. In this study, we aim to provide a holistic perspective of fashion companies’ sustainable development and investigate the sustainability practices of global fashion companies. A total of 181 CSR reports from 29 fashion companies were collected. A Dictionary approach text classification method, combined with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a computer-assisted topic modeling algorithm, was implemented to detect and summarize the themes and keywords of detailed practices disclosed in CSR reports. The findings identified 12 main sustainability practices themes based on the triple bottom line theory and the moral responsibility of corporate sustainability theory. In general, waste management and human rights are the most frequently mentioned themes. The findings also suggest that global fashion companies adopted different sustainability strategies based on their product categories and competitive advantages.

scholarly journals Tinkering With the Plumbing of Sustainable Enterprises: The Case for Field Experimental Research in Corporate Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 108602662110286
Author(s):  
Andrew Spicer ◽  
Marcus Wagner ◽  
Maurizio Zollo
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Randomized Control

In this introduction, we first review the lessons learned in development economics about the ability of randomized control trials to analyse what Duflo refers to as the “plumbing problems” of policy implementation, as opposed to “engineering problems” of policy design. We then examine the papers published within this special issue from a plumbing-based perspective to highlight the benefits of the co-creation of knowledge in corporate sustainability through a field-based experimental agenda. We finally propose that field-based experiments can radically influence the future development of our (and related) fields of inquiry in three ways: (1) focusing on the implementation processes of sustainability strategies, (2) shifting attention from the analysis of past events to the design of future actions, and (3) yielding our role as sole owners of the knowledge development process and agreeing to shared ownership with the organizations we study.

scholarly journals Workplace Health in Kentucky: A Statewide Comparison

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5473
Author(s):  
Gretchen Macy ◽  
Jacqueline Basham ◽  
Cecilia Watkins ◽  
Vijay Golla
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Statewide Assessment

The objectives of this study were to assess the state of Kentucky’s workplace health promotion and occupational safety and health programs, to ensure the ability to comprehend any possible trends over the past six years in the state’s progress in offering workplace health promotion and health protection programs, to compare the results of this survey with the 2013 Kentucky state-wide assessment, and to identify gaps in Kentucky’s workplace health promotion and occupational safety and health based on Total Worker Health® (TWH) concepts. Using Qualtrics research software, the Workplace Health in America assessment was sent to companies located in Kentucky and having 10 or more employees. Participants were identified using Dun and Bradstreet’s Hoover’s database. The results showed that, as with the 2013 survey, larger workplaces significantly were more likely to offer workplace health promotion programs than smaller companies (X2 = 24.30; p < 0.001). However, more companies (78%) reported offering programs compared to the 2013 assessment (49%). Given the results of the current study as compared to the statewide assessment conducted in 2013, Kentucky’s WHP is moving in a positive direction; yet, there is still much to be done. There remains a strong need to provide cost-effective and accessible resources for all elements of TWH to small workplaces.

scholarly journals biotoolsSchema: a formalized schema for bioinformatics software description

GigaScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Ison ◽  
Hans Ienasescu ◽  
Emil Rydza ◽  
Piotr Chmura ◽  
Kristoffer Rapacki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Bioinformatics Software ◽  
Scientific Context ◽  
Machine Readable

Abstract Background Life scientists routinely face massive and heterogeneous data analysis tasks and must find and access the most suitable databases or software in a jungle of web-accessible resources. The diversity of information used to describe life-scientific digital resources presents an obstacle to their utilization. Although several standardization efforts are emerging, no information schema has been sufficiently detailed to enable uniform semantic and syntactic description—and cataloguing—of bioinformatics resources. Findings Here we describe biotoolsSchema, a formalized information model that balances the needs of conciseness for rapid adoption against the provision of rich technical information and scientific context. biotoolsSchema results from a series of community-driven workshops and is deployed in the bio.tools registry, providing the scientific community with &gt;17,000 machine-readable and human-understandable descriptions of software and other digital life-science resources. We compare our approach to related initiatives and provide alignments to foster interoperability and reusability. Conclusions biotoolsSchema supports the formalized, rigorous, and consistent specification of the syntax and semantics of bioinformatics resources, and enables cataloguing efforts such as bio.tools that help scientists to find, comprehend, and compare resources. The use of biotoolsSchema in bio.tools promotes the FAIRness of research software, a key element of open and reproducible developments for data-intensive sciences.

scholarly journals Taking a fresh look at FAIR for research software

Patterns ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 100267
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Katz ◽  
Morane Gruenpeter ◽  
Tom Honeyman
Keyword(s):  
Research Software

scholarly journals Corporate Sustainability Strategies and Decision Support Methods: A Bibliometric Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fotis Kitsios ◽  
Maria Kamariotou ◽  
Michael A. Talias
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Support Methods

Sustainability is becoming an increasing issue for decision-makers and scholars worldwide and many managers understand the significance of the strategic approach of corporate sustainability. However, they face difficulties in aligning sustainable development and strategic management as well as to implement it in practice. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric analysis exploring the integration of strategic management, decision-making and corporate sustainability, providing a framework of interrelated issues according to the current literature in this area. 72 peer-reviewed papers were analyzed based on Webster’s and Watson’s (2002) methodology. The results of this review revealed that the number of publications in this domain has increased in the last decade, and there is a need to foster research (especially empirical) in this field because managers should find out ways to implement, in action, corporate sustainability strategies and integrate their action plans with their business strategy. This review concludes with a framework that includes the most commonly addressed issues of this topic and provides opportunities and challenges for further research.

Software Design of College Students' Physical Activity Energy Monitor

2013 ◽  
Vol 464 ◽  
pp. 424-428
Author(s):  
Qi Luo
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
College Students ◽  
Software Design ◽  
Electronic Circuit ◽  
Physiological Condition ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Movement Condition ◽  
Tracking Module ◽  
Activity Energy ◽  
Hardware Structure

The hardware structure of college students physical activity energy monitor has been designed through electronic circuit method in the previous research. Software Design of college students physical activity energy monitor by using LabVIEW is also proposed. User login module, physiological condition module, movement condition module, diet tracking module, virtual coaches module and other modules are also realized in the paper.

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