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Sustainable Horizons for Business Education and Technology
Author | : Hashem Alshurafat |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789819729814 |
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Sustainable Horizons for Business Education and Technology
Author | : Hashem Alshurafat,Allam Hamdan,John Sands |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-08-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9819729807 |
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This book offers a detailed analysis of the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and global progress, and it comprehensively explores sustainable practices and their impact on business, education, and technology. The book shows how businesses can incorporate sustainability into their core operations, including environment-friendly supply chains, renewable energy adoption, circular economy models, ethical decision-making, and sustainable growth strategies. Successful sustainable businesses and the benefits of their socially responsible practices are highlighted. In addition, the book explores how education can shape a sustainable future. It is necessary to integrate the ideas of sustainability into the curricula of early childhood education to higher learning institutions to educate and empower the next generation of changemakers. The role of technology in advancing sustainability efforts is also investigated, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, clean energy solutions, green architecture, and smart cities. Other topics explored in the book include global sustainability efforts such as international collaborations, public-private partnerships, and multilateral initiatives; the role of governments, NGOs, and international organizations in promoting sustainable development; ethical considerations and social impacts of sustainable practices, for example, social justice, inclusivity, and environmental stewardship; connections between sustainable development and improved quality of life; and groundbreaking ideas and innovations for industries to tackle sustainability issues. The book offers a comprehensive and forward-looking perspective on sustainability. By combining different viewpoints, the book empowers readers with the knowledge and inspiration to contribute meaningfully to a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient world.
Three Horizons
Author | : Bill Sharpe |
Publsiher | : Triarchy Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781911193876 |
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A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it
Technological Innovations for Business Education and Sustainability
Author | : Allam Hamdan |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781837531066 |
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Fulfilling a growing need for aligning business strategy and educational curriculums with the evolving skills required for business workplaces, this book presents a thorough understanding of how business, education and technology can enable current and future leaders to contribute positively to digital transformation across the globe.
Teaching Business Sustainability
Author | : Chris Galea |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781351281782 |
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In a world where corporate governance scandals have become the everyday, the role of business schools in producing the managers of today – and tomorrow – has come into sharp focus. Today's managers and the MBAs that will follow them are in need of an education that grounds business ethics and the overarching concerns of sustainable development into the curriculum. As some, but by no means all, organisations are coming to realise, bad performance in environmental protection, labour practices and human rights is no longer a "soft" issue but one that can hit the bottom line with a vengeance. So, what is the state of the art in teaching business sustainability worldwide, and what teaching practices and tools are achieving successful results? This book begins to answer these questions and more.There are many challenges facing educators in the field of sustainability. It is an evolving field still in its infancy as a management discipline; and there is also the need to combat the unstated but often underlying assumption that many environmental and social issues represent non-valued-added effort. Teaching Business Sustainability acknowledges this problem, while helping students explore the various ways in which the theoretical value of business sustainability can result in valuable and value-added practical outcomes.A wide mix of approaches is therefore indicated; while many of these are experimental and on the leading edge of management learning, they all share an experiential (and often a team-based) element, and attempt to bring together the theory in a way that makes it relevant to practitioners in the field. The implication is that, whenever possible, educators need to link the learning to the students' immediate and pressing "real-world" realities. This applies equally to undergraduates or high-level executives. However, in the absence of immediate examples of such realities (as may often be the case in undergraduate settings) educators need to introduce experientially based approaches that recreate such settings in the classroom.The book also argues the case for holistic and interdisciplinary learning. It is clear from much of the literature on sustainability that the concept does not easily lend itself to being pigeonholed and that it crosses many of the functional areas of business. Indeed, it goes beyond just business learning to encompass many fields such as ecology, engineering and biology. If students are to move beyond the narrow perspective that conventional business studies often entail, they need to be introduced to the wider vision that an interdisciplinary approach engenders.The final point that emerges from this collection is that experiential learning of business sustainability often can, and should be, fun! Be it a heated exchange in a case-study discussion, a role-play exercise or a hands-on student consulting project, much experiential learning seems to excite the imagination of the students and to release their creative juices.The 23 contributions to Teaching Business Sustainability have been divided into three thematic groups. In the first section, 'Theory, Critique and Ideas', the authors explore and critique some of the overarching ideas and thinking behind the teaching of sustainability. The next section, 'Learning from Current Practice', contains the experiences of a number of educators and the successful and leading-edge approaches that they have used. The final section then outlines tools, methods and approaches that can be used to teach business sustainability. This last section also serves as an introduction to a second volume – Teaching Business Sustainability Vol. 2 – which provides educators of sustainability with a series of case studies, role plays and experiential exercises. Teaching Business Sustainability is an invaluable resource both for educators working in a wide range of academic disciplines, looking for inspiration and guidance on how to teach business sustainability, as well as for organisations looking to reinvigorate internal management education programmes to factor in corporate responsibility and sustainability issues.
Sustainability in Business Education Research and Practices
Author | : Tony Wall |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031559969 |
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Sustainable Investing
Author | : Herman Bril,Georg Kell,Andreas Rasche |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781000097993 |
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This book tells the story of how the convergence between corporate sustainability and sustainable investing is now becoming a major force driving systemic market changes. The idea and practice of corporate sustainability is no longer a niche movement. Investors are increasingly paying attention to sustainability factors in their analysis and decision-making, thus reinforcing market transformation. In this book, high-level practitioners and academic thought leaders, including contributions from John Ruggie, Fiona Reynolds, Johan Rockström, and Paul Polman, explain the forces behind these developments. The contributors highlight (a) that systemic market change is influenced by various contextual factors that impact how sustainable investing is perceived and practiced; (b) that the integration of ESG factors in investment decisions is impacting markets on a large scale and hence changes practices of major market players (e.g. pension funds); and (c) that technology and the increasing datafication of sustainability act as further accelerators of such change. The book goes beyond standard economic theory approaches to sustainable investing and emphasizes that capitalism founded on more real-world (complex) economics and cooperation can strengthen ESG integration. Aimed at both investment professionals and academics, this book gives the reader access to more practitioner-relevant information and it also discusses implementation issues. The reader will gain insights into how "mainstream" financial actors relate to sustainable investing.
Technological Innovations for Business Education and Sustainability
Author | : Allam Hamdan |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781837531080 |
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Fulfilling a growing need for aligning business strategy and educational curriculums with the evolving skills required for business workplaces, this book presents a thorough understanding of how business, education and technology can enable current and future leaders to contribute positively to digital transformation across the globe.