Comparative Study Of Green Practices In Haryana State Universities

Universities in the state are regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect impacts on the environment. The current study focuses on the green practices in state universities of Haryana. The comparative analysis has been done between the multiple case studies and find out the best green practices being adopted in universities for moving towards making the green campus and recommend the area of improvement for making environment sustainable campus.

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Comparative Study Of Green Practices In Haryana State Universities

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8360 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 144-153

Author(s):

Priyanka ◽

Ipshita Bansal

Keyword(s):

State Universities ◽

Small Cities ◽

Large Size ◽

Green Practices ◽

Size Population ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

Complex Activities

Universities in the state are regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect impacts on the environment. The current study focuses on the green practices in state universities of Haryana. The comparative analysis has been done between the multiple case studies and find out the best green practices being adopted in universities for moving towards making the green campus and recommend the area of improvement for making environment sustainable campus.

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Impact of Entrepreneurship Extracurricular Activities and Inspiration on Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediator and Moderator Effect

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211032174 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 215824402110321

Author(s):

Thuy Thu Nguyen ◽

Linh Thi Phuong Nguyen ◽

Hoa Thi Thanh Phan ◽

Anh Trong Vu

Keyword(s):

Extracurricular Activities ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Moderator Effect ◽

Technical Students ◽

Research Findings ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

The Impact

This empirical study proposed a comprehensive model testing the direct and indirect impacts of entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration on students’ entrepreneurial intention. With the sample consisting of 640 students from 11 universities in Vietnam, the study used structural equation modeling analysis approach. The results revealed that entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration are significantly related to students’ entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurship self-efficacy partially mediates these relations. The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention differs across the field of study. Technical students generally get more benefits from entrepreneurship educational activities than business and economics students do. The research findings recommended some implications for fostering graduates’ entrepreneurship in emerging countries.

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Competency-Industry Relatedness (C-IR) Framework for Sustained Business Growth in Startups during and beyond Pandemic: Myths and Lessons from Publicly Funded Innovative Startups

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094632 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4632

Author(s):

Varun Gupta ◽

Luis Rubalcaba

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Business Environment ◽

Learning Curves ◽

The European Union ◽

Business Growth ◽

Product Lines ◽

Business Decisions ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies ◽

Industry Relatedness

Context: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a turbulent business environment, resulting in market uncertainties, frustrations, and rumors. Wrongly held beliefs—or myths—can hinder startups from turning new market opportunities into their favor (for example, by failing at diversification decisions) or undertaking wrong business decisions, e.g., diversifying in industries that have products of no real market value). Objectives: The objective of the paper is to identify the beliefs that drive the business decisions of startups in a pandemic and to isolate those beliefs that are merely myths. Further, this paper proposes strategic guidelines in the form of a framework to help startups make sound decisions that can lead to market success. Method: The two-step research method involved multiple case studies with five startups based in India, France, Italy, and Switzerland, to identify perceptual beliefs that drove strategic business decisions, followed by a case study of 36 COVID-19-solution focused startups, funded by the European Union (EU). The findings were validated through a survey that involved 102 entrepreneurs. The comparative analysis of two multiple case studies helped identify beliefs that were merely “myths”; myths that drove irrational strategic decisions, resulting in business failures. Results: The results indicate that startups make decisions in pandemic situations that are driven by seven myths, pertaining to human, intellectual, and financial resources. The decision on whether to diversify or continue in the same business operation can be divided into four strategic options of the Competency-Industry Relatedness (C-IR) framework: ignore, delay, phase-in, and diversify. Diversification in the same (or different industry) is less risky for startups if they have the skills, as needed, to diversify in related industries. Diversification in related industries helps startups leverage their experiences and learning curves (those associated with existing product lines) to adapt their existing products in new markets, or utilize their technologies to solve new problems via new products. The desired outcome for these startups should be sustainable business growth—to meet sustainability goals by contributing to the society and the economy. Conclusion: The C-IR framework is a strategic guide for startups to make business decisions based on internal factors, rather than myths. Accurately assessing skill diversity and the nature of new industries (or markets) will help startups leverage their existing resources optimally, without the need for (pricey) external funding. This will foster sustained business growth resulting in a nation economic development. Knowledge transfer from the Innovation ecosystem will further strengthen the C-IR framework effectiveness.

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector ◽

10.4018/ijisss.2018040101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tom Yoon ◽

Bong-Keun Jeong

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Business Units ◽

Small Project ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies ◽

And Training

Using a multiple case studies and surveys, this article finds that factors essential to successful Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations include establishing effective SOA governance, establishing SOA registries, starting with a small project, collaboration between business and IT units, strengthening trust among business units, and training. This article also explores business and IT motivations for SOA implementation and the benefits realized from this implementation. The findings from this article can provide a guidance for practitioners on the successful implementation of SOA.

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Group Facilitation on Societal Disruption and Collapse: Insights from Deep Adaptation

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116280 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6280

Author(s):

Jem Bendell ◽

Katie Carr

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Degradation ◽

First Person ◽

Group Facilitation ◽

Environmental Destruction ◽

Difficult Conversations ◽

Radical Uncertainty ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts

This article synthesises the practice and rationale behind ways of facilitating gatherings on topics of societal disruption and collapse, which is argued to be useful for lessening damaging responses. The authors draw on first-person inquiry as facilitators of gatherings, both online and in person, in the post-sustainability field of ‘Deep Adaptation,’ particularly since 2018. This term describes an agenda and framework for people who believe in the probable, inevitable or unfolding collapse of industrial consumer societies, due to the direct and indirect impacts of human-caused climate change and environmental degradation. Some of the principles of Deep Adaptation facilitation are summarised, such as containment, to enable co-responsibility for a safe enough space for difficult conversations. Another key principle is welcoming radical uncertainty in response to the anxieties that people feel from their anticipation of collapse. A third principle is making space for difficult emotions, which are welcomed as a natural and ongoing response to our predicament. A fourth aspect is a curiosity about processes of othering and separation. This paper provides a review of the theories that a reason for environmental destruction is the process of othering people and nature as being less significant or meaningful. One particular modality called Deep Relating is outlined.

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A Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS)—A Novel Methodology to Measure the Holistic Operational Performance of Signalized Urban Intersections

Smart Cities ◽

10.3390/smartcities4030054 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 1018-1038

Author(s):

Wesam Emad Saba ◽

Salwa M. Beheiry ◽

Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh ◽

Mustafa S. AL-Tekreeti

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Local Economy ◽

Rating System ◽

Operational Performance ◽

Community Activities ◽

Community Wellbeing ◽

Importance Index ◽

Health Community ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts

Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, and thus their physical and operational designs have traditionally aimed at maximizing traffic throughput subject to constraints dictated by vehicular safety requirements and pedestrian crossing needs. Seen from a holistic viewpoint, urban intersections are hubs or effective centers of community activities of which traffic flow is only one. Those hubs have direct and indirect impacts on the overlapping traffic functionalities, the environment, public health, community wellbeing, and the local economy. This study proposes a new rating system, the Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS), aimed at appraising signalized intersections from a more inclusive viewpoint. This appraisal covers traffic functionality, sustainability, and public health and community wellbeing. This rating system can be used as a guide to conceive, plan, or design new intersections or revamp existing ones. HIRS rates signalized urban intersections based on the level of use of relevant enabling technologies, and the physical and operational designs that allow those intersections to operate holistically, thus leading to a more human-centric and sustainable operational performance. HIRS was validated using a panel of experts in construction, transportation, and public health. The Relative Importance Index (RII) method was used to weigh the HIRS features. The rating system was piloted on a sample of 20 intersections in different cities in the UAE. The results revealed glaring gaps in services to or the consideration of pedestrians, cyclists, and nearby households. The sample intersections scored a mean of 32% on the public health and community wellbeing section, 37% on the pedestrian subsection, and 15% on the cyclist subsection. Such relatively low scores serve as indicators of areas for improvements, and if mapped to their specific features and their relative weights, specific physical and operations designs and technology integration can be identified as actionable items for inclusion in plans and/or designs.

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Mutualistic strategies minimize coextinction in plant–disperser networks

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2016.2302 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 284 (1854) ◽

pp. 20162302 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Evan C. Fricke ◽

Joshua J. Tewksbury ◽

Elizabeth M. Wandrag ◽

Haldre S. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Network Structure ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Empirical Relationship ◽

Network Models ◽

Mutualistic Interactions ◽

Simulated Network ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

The Stability ◽

Seed Dispersal Mutualism

The global decline of mutualists such as pollinators and seed dispersers may cause negative direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Mutualistic network models used to understand the stability of mutualistic systems indicate that species with low partner diversity are most vulnerable to coextinction following mutualism disruption. However, existing models have not considered how species vary in their dependence on mutualistic interactions for reproduction or survival, overlooking the potential influence of this variation on species' coextinction vulnerability and on network stability. Using global databases and field experiments focused on the seed dispersal mutualism, we found that plants and animals that depend heavily on mutualistic interactions have higher partner diversity. Under simulated network disruption, this empirical relationship strongly reduced coextinction because the species most likely to lose mutualists depend least on their mutualists. The pattern also reduced the importance of network structure for stability; nested network structure had little effect on coextinction after simulations incorporated the empirically derived relationship between partner diversity and mutualistic dependence. Our results highlight a previously unknown source of stability in mutualistic networks and suggest that differences among species in their mutualistic strategy, rather than network structure, primarily accounts for stability in mutualistic communities.

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Value co-creation in the B2B context: a diagnosis of knowledge management based on multiple case studies

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing ◽

10.1108/jbim-11-2020-0528 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Andrei Bonamigo ◽

Camila Guimarães Frech ◽

Ana Carolina Custódio Lopes

Keyword(s):

Empirical Studies ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Content Type ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies ◽

Knowledge Asymmetry ◽

Business To Business ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose This study aims to empirically investigate how organizations delivering services in business-to-business relations deal with the boundary paradox and knowledge asymmetry in value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a qualitative multiple case study strategy. Datas were gathered through 13 semi-structured interviews that were then analyzed through the content analysis. Findings The authors identified three mechanisms that organizations use to deal with the boundary paradox and two strategies to handle the knowledge asymmetry. Research limitations/implications First, no opportunities were afforded to involve more participants. Second, owning to confidentiality reasons, not all organizations provided us documents to be analyzed. Practical implications The findings guide managers in balancing the use of contracts and trust in inter-firm collaborations and fostering the learning of customers. Also, insights to protect knowledge based on the paradox of openness in value co-creation. Originality/value This study’s findings address the gap in value co-creation literature concerning the lack of empirical studies.

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Software Effort Estimation Using ISBSG Dataset: Multiple Case Studies

10.1109/uyms54260.2021.9659655 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Huseyin Unlu ◽

Ali Gorkem Yalcin ◽

Dilek Ozturk ◽

Guliz Akkaya ◽

Mert Kalecik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Effort Estimation ◽

Software Effort Estimation ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies

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