BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY MODEL IN THE NEW NORMAL ERA THROUGH MICRO AND SMALL BUSINESS DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN RURAL AREAS

The policy of preventing the transmission of Covid-19 through Large-Scale Social Borders and the Enforcement of Restrictions on Community Activities has had an impact on the economy. Many micro and small businesses have stopped operating, workers have been laid off, unemployment has increased, and there has been new poverty. This study aims to implement a business sustainability model that can adapt to new normal conditions supported by digital platform applications in a rural area and obtain a Covid-19 prevention model with a change in business governance orientation approach that can adapt to the new normal era. The research method used is literature study, exploratory survey, experimental research, and applied research. A field survey was conducted to obtain primary data at the village level. An experimental method to test business sustainability models and digital platform applications on micro and small businesses. Digital platform literacy is carried out through online workshops. The unit of analysis is micro and small business actors. The data analyzed are time series. The research site was in Sumedang Regency from September 2020 to July 2021. The results showed that during the Covid-19 pandemic there were micro and small business activities that made changes, although there were also those who laid off their businesses. Adjustments in the form of substitution of raw materials, modification, diversification, making new products, and changing the way of marketing. The digital platform design is made on a web and android based to carry out the function or process of online transactions for micro and small business products in rural areas. It is hoped that MSE entrepreneurs will understand, through complete information, adjusting needs, as well as helping prevent the transmission of Covid-19 and can support business sustainability in the new normal era.

Understanding the Economic Sustainability Model for Urban Rail Transit Operator: A TOD Perspective

With the growth of urban rail transit construction and operation scales，it is necessary to strengthen and deepen the studies on urban rail transit enterprise economic sustainability model. From the theoretical and practical angles, this paper reviewed the exploration and practice process of urban rail transit enterprise economic sustainability model, including the connotation of “metro operation + property development” profit model, as well as further studies and prospect. It suggests TOD model can improve the economic sustainability capability of urban rail transit enterprise, and set up a self-virtuous development cycle in rail transit industry.

Sustainment of proactive physical therapy for individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease: a quality improvement study over 4 years

Background Implementation science frameworks aided the development of a new, evidence-based clinical physical therapy program. The purpose of this report is to describe the process of sustaining a clinical program in practice for over 4 years. We present a framework for integrating tools for sustainability with the Knowledge-to-Action model in the context of a proactive physical therapy (PAPT) program for individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. Methods Sustainability of implementation strategies was addressed using the Dynamic Sustainability Framework and sustainability assessment tools. Repeated retrospective medical record reviews and phone interviews were used to evaluate the reach and adoption of the PAPT over 4 years. Characteristics of those who engaged with PAPT, implementation fidelity, and clinical effectiveness were assessed for year 1 and year 3. Sustainability was measured using RE-AIM, NHS Sustainability Model, and Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool. Results Reach increased from 28 to 110 total patients per year and spread occurred from one to three sites. PAPT user age, sex, Hoehn and Yahr rating, time since diagnosis, and type of insurance were similar in year 1 and year 3 (p > 0.05). The program sustained its effect to help participants increase or maintain self-reported exercise (Y1, 95%; Y3, 100%). However, upon evaluation PAPT users in year 3 had longer time since symptom onset and worse UPDRS motor scores compared to the PAPT users in year 1 (p < 0.05). All sites sustained the core intervention components, with sustainability scores of 71/100 (± 9.9) on the NHS Sustainability Model and 6.1/7 (± 0.9) on the Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool. Conclusions Integrating multiple sustainability models and assessments supported continued effectiveness, spread, and sustainment of PAPT for 4 years. Effective planning, anticipating common healthcare changes, and addressing sustainability determinants early in program implementation were essential aspects of long-term success.

Sustainability Model for Private Higher Education of North Sumatra Indonesia

The sustainability of private higher education depends on the adaptive competence that universities apply in facing global challenges. This research developed an integrated sustainability model of managing higher education which used the local and global challenges to face the competitiveness in handling higher education. With a Research and Development Model, this study offered a sustainability strategy that includes dimensions; education and research, community involvement, operation, and administration. Data found that many higher education institutions in Medan Municipality of North Sumatra face human resources problems; the majority of private universities only have less than 10 percent hold a doctoral degree and most of their working time doing teaching and administration tasks, but the low publication of research. The sustainability of private universities in Medan Municipality of North Sumatra Province mostly was found in threat conditions due to the lack of an integrated model that could adapt to global challenges. This model recommends the private universities build an integrated model which changes the workloads of lecturers to be research-oriented.

Axes of a multidisciplinary model for sustainable innovation: Life transition after COVID-19

In the post COVID-19 era, the current sustainability model should be adjusted to the current life transition considering the lessons learned in this atypical era. The current sustainability model, which is composed of three axes: environment, economy, and society, seems insufficient. It should integrate the axes of health, from an environmental health perspective (not only anthropogenic), and legislation within a detailed analysis in the standardization towards a balanced trend in harmony with the environment. In addition, innovation is proposed as a transversal axis. Based on a detailed analysis of more than 400 published works on sustainability, this work proposes a new conceptual model centered on a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing and integrating each of the proposed axes. This conceptual model represents a strategic correlation between each axis towards a sense of globalized benefit and an environmentally-friendly life transition, hence, respecting the health of the planet.

Perspectivismo ameríndio como modelo de desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade: giro descolonizador sobre a natureza

Resumo Este artigo versa sobre o perspectivismo ameríndio como modelo de desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade, em oposição ao modelo capitalista ocidental entranhado nas estruturas socioprodutivas. A natureza é apresentada no espectro descolonizador que promove a reconexão do humano como estrutura integrada aos processos naturais. Portanto, pretende-se apresentar um contraponto entre o domínio cosmológico ocidental, que estabelece o padrão colonial-moderno-capitalista de poder sobre a natureza e o perspectivismo ameríndio, o qual pretende refundar o humano à natureza. A compreensão do domínio epistemológico ocidental permite comparar e deslocar os conceitos de precificação e de objetificação da natureza, para transvalorar a outra escala de desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade para uma ecologia pachamama. No aspecto metodológico, este estudo faz uma revisão bibliográfica e apresenta de forma interdisciplinar os textos de teóricos decoloniais, na maioria, latino-americanos, de grande visibilidade acadêmica. Destarte, o artigo indica que o modelo de desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade perpassa pela mudança de modelo societário fundado no multicultutralismo ocidental para a adoção da interculturalidade como exigência da capacidade de criar formas de compreensão, colaboração, reciprocidade e solidariedade, através de um novo paradigma societário. Palavras-chave: Perspectivismo ameríndio. Descolonização da natureza. Cosmologia. Interdisciplinaridade. Interculturalidade. Abstract This article discusses Amerindian perspectivism as a model of development and sustainability, in opposition to the Western capitalist model embedded in the socio-productive structures. Nature is presented in the decolonizing spectrum that promotes the reconnection of the human as an integrated structure to natural processes. Therefore, it is intended to present a contraposition between the Western cosmological domain, which presents a colonial-modern-capitalist pattern of power over nature and the Amerindian perspectivism, that aims to deepen the human to nature. Understanding the Western epistemological domain allows a comparison between pricing and objectification of nature, and shifts their concept through pondering them to another scale of development and sustainability, such as the pachamama ecology. In the methodological aspect, a bibliographic review was carried out, and it was presented, in an interdisciplinary way, the writings of decolonial theorists, mostly latin americans, with high academic visibility. It is possible to assert along these lines, that the development and sustainability model involves a change in the corporate model based on western multiculturalism to adopt interculturality as a requirement for the ability to create new forms of understanding, collaboration, reciprocity and solidarity, through a new corporate paradigm. Keywords: Amerindian perspectivism. Decolonization of nature. Cosmology. Interdisciplinarity. Interculturality. Resumen Este artículo trata sobre el perspectivismo amerindio como modelo de desarrollo y sostenibilidad, en oposición al modelo capitalista occidental enraizado en las estructuras socioproductivas. La naturaleza se presenta en el espectro descolonizador que plantea la reconexión de lo humano como estructura integrada a los procesos naturales. Por lo tanto, se pretende presentar una contraposición entre el dominio cosmológico occidental, que establece el marco colonial-moderno-capitalista de poder sobre la naturaleza y el perspectivismo amerindio, que pretende reconducir lo humano a la naturaleza. La comprensión del dominio epistemológico occidental permite comparar y alejar los conceptos de precificación y cosificación de la naturaleza, para revalorarla, en otra escala de desarrollo y sostenibilidad, en una ecología pachamana. Desde el punto de vista metodológico, este estudio hace una revisión bibliográfica y presenta de forma interdisciplinaria los textos de teóricos decoloniales, en su mayor parte latinoamericanos, de gran visibilidad académica. De esa manera, el artículo indica que el modelo de desarrollo y sostenibilidad implica el cambio del modelo societario fundado en el multiculturalismo occidental para la adopción de la interculturalidad como exigencia de capacidad para crear formas de comprensión, colaboración, reciprocidad y solidaridad, por medio de un nuevo paradigma societario. Palabras-clave: Perspectivismo amerindio. Descolonización de la naturaleza. Cosmología. Interdisciplinariedad. Interculturalidad.

A New Sustainability Model – A Four Essential Quadrants Framework

Research purpose. This paper will present contemporary ideas on how, when, and where the four quadrants are vital to the sustainability of an organization and central to the future of the entity. There have long been suppositions and actual operational level models featuring three primary rudiments. Much of the prior research and modeling has centered on Economic, Social, and Environmental as the basis for sustainability within business models. This particular research brought new perspectives and addressed some deficiencies in the existing sustainability models. Design / Methodology / Approach. A qualitative methodology aligned with an axiological philosophical assumption is evidenced throughout the explanatory review, and new open-ended interviews focused on values while discussing the nuances of sustainability. The methodology applied is a review of relevant literature on sustainability, critical thinking, CSR, and financial acumen that was utilized to augment the interviews. Findings. This new and distinct perspective develops and puts forth four quadrants that are corollary to these three core elements. However, this version purports a more comprehensive and holistic framing with a focus on Financial Acumen, Critical Thinking, Creativity & Innovation, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Each of these “new model” fundamentals provides a broader application for sustainability within a business strategy as companies look to distinguish themselves in the markets served. There is no doubt that executives are faced with a myriad of complex and, in some sense, extraordinary demands on the business. Originality / Value / Practical implications. This sustainability model captures four imperatives for sustaining and improving business performance and, in the end, a sophisticated and authentic approach providing engagement by and with all stakeholders. Financial acumen must be comprehensive and create value; Critical Thinking must be pervasive throughout the organization; Creativity & Innovation must drive systematic improvements throughout, and Corporate Social Responsibility should be a core business strategy for both employee engagement and creating external social influences. Though this last supposition can be argued such as Friedman put forth, there remains the awareness and recognition of the importance of CSR in a business model. This particular research will broaden the view of those involved with sustainability to now include critical thinking, creativity, and innovation.