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What Management Control Practices Do Electric Utilities Rely on When It Comes to Fostering the Social Pillar of Sustainability? A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and the United States

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric utilities are expected to implement measures to improve their performance in all three dimensions of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic. While several studies have investigated the environmental dimension, measures related to the social pillar have hardly been researched to date.
Shekerta Aliu, Albert Anton Traxler, Dorothea Greiling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitating urban green innovative efficiency from intergovernmental perspective in China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Li L, Ma X, Zheng Y, Ma S, Zuo J, Goodsite M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Macro Vulnerabilities to the Clean Energy Transition: An Empirical Assessment

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The macro environment is one of the analytical levels of the multilevel transition perspective that has the potential to shape the clean energy transition. Following the Political, Economic, Social and Technological (PEST) framework, the present study analyzes the paths by which these four macro dimensions jointly shape wind, solar, and ...
Helena Dominguez‐Torres
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking social capital in wildfire resilience: the case of central Portugal. [PDF]

Disasters
Fachada C, Mendes JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein, Elco van Burg, Christine Moser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inefficiencies in the division of labour in human societies. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Diehl C, Preisendörfer P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Education Reform using Common Career Selective Programme (CCSP) to Promote Education-for-All (EFA). [PDF]

F1000Res
Agyemang F, Woode B, Kofi Fosuhene S, Browne Klutse NA, Kojo Nyarko A, Oku Asamoah S, Antwi Agyei B.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
wiley   +1 more source

Working with/in crises: More questions than answers? [PDF]

Dialogues Urban Res
Whiteside H.
europepmc   +1 more source