Definitions and organizational practice of sustainability in the for-profit sector of Nova Scotia

Hannon, Ashley; Callaghan, Edith

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.11.003

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“…Competition at a global level requires the implementation of sustainability, viewed as an important strategy in the service industry. Sustainability-related issues are of paramount importance and consequently the implementation of sustainability in one's company has become a common desire [1,2]. When defining sustainable development, it is necessary to highlight how to make development meet present needs, while not influencing the capability of future generations to satisfy their own needs [3].…”

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Measuring Patients’ Perception and Satisfaction with the Romanian Healthcare System

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Measuring patient satisfaction of healthcare service quality represents a significant element of a healthcare's system (HS) overall evaluation. It is the starting point for creating policies in national healthcare. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate Romanian patients' perception and satisfaction of the quality of the national HS as a whole and of its components. Exploratory and descriptive research was used. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with Romanian patients, based on a questionnaire. Out of the 2305 respondents, 83% used the Romanian HS in the past 12 months and 58% of the respondents did not trust the system. The accommodation, food, and other facilities of Romanian hospitals were perceived as being at a low level. One third of the respondents were unsatisfied and very unsatisfied with respect to the overall impression of the Romanian HS. In addition, our research found a statistically significant relationship between confidence in the HS, age, and gender, and also between the overall impression on the HS, age and income.

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“…There is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of human efforts towards sustainability. A clearer and more unified understanding of sustainability among different people and sectors could help to facilitate this (Hannon and Callaghan, 2011;Lindsey, 2011). Along these lines, this paper has presented the results of an inductive literature investigation focusing on sustainability and human action towards it across society.…”

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“…A definition of sustainability is often the starting point for human efforts towards sustainability (Hannon and Callaghan, 2011;van Zeijl-Rozema and Martens, 2010;Walter and Stützel, 2009). Indeed, if "sustainability" is our goal, then it seems reasonable to suggest that we need some grasp on what exactly this goal represents.…”

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The Sustainability Cycle and Loop: Models for a more unified understanding of sustainability

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Duffy

Whitfield

2014

Journal of Environmental Management

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In spite of the considerable research on sustainability, reports suggest that we are barely any closer to a more sustainable society. As such, there is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of human efforts towards sustainability. A clearer and more unified understanding of sustainability among different people and sectors could help to facilitate this. This paper presents the results of an inductive literature investigation, aiming to develop models to explain the nature of sustainability in the Earth system, and how humans can effectively strive for it. The major contributions are two general and complementary models, that may be applied in any context to provide a common basis for understanding sustainability: the Sustainability Cycle (S-Cycle), and the Sustainability Loop (S-Loop). Literature spanning multiple sectors is examined from the perspective of three concepts, emerging as significant in relation to our aim. Systems are shown to provide the context for human action towards sustainability, and the nature of the Earth system and its sub-systems is explored. Activities are outlined as a fundamental target that humans need to sustain, since they produce the entities both needed and desired by society. The basic behaviour of activities operating in the Earth system is outlined. Finally, knowledge is positioned as the driver of human action towards sustainability, and the key components of knowledge involved are examined. The S-Cycle and S-Loop models are developed via a process of induction from the reviewed literature. The S-Cycle describes the operation of activities in a system from the perspective of sustainability. The sustainability of activities in a system depends upon the availability of resources, and the availability of resources depends upon the rate that activities consume and produce them. Humans may intervene in these dynamics via an iterative process of interpretation and action, described in the S-Loop model. The models are briefly applied to a system described in the literature. It is shown that the S-Loop may be used to guide efforts towards sustainability in a particular system of interest, by prescribing the basic activities involved. The S-Cycle may be applied complementary to the S-Loop, to support the interpretation of activity behaviour described in the latter. Given their general nature, the models provide the basis for a more unified understanding of sustainability. It is hoped that their use may go some way towards improving the effectiveness of human action towards sustainability.

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“…Today's definition of sustainable development remains vague, encompassing the vast of different values, objectives of different groups and social levels, applicable to diverse public policies and economic sectors (Peterson, 2009). Notwithstanding complexity around and within sustainability concept, this category remains highly appreciated, demanded and engaged in science, as well as in praxis (Omer, 2008;Muntlak et al, 2009;Hannon and Callaghan, 2011;Yildiz and Yercan, 2011;Orecchini et al, 2011;Cumming, 2011).…”

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Bridging Political, Managerial and Legislative Components of Sustainability Strategy with Business Demands

Pitrėnaitė-Žilėnienė

Mikulskienė

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The present study explores features of policy, management and legislation (PML) that may facilitate country's sustainable development with the account of business demands in national governance. The paper discusses former attempts to measure PML related aspects from the perspective of sustainability at different levels. In order to get business strategies function in harmony with sector and national strategies in a sustainable manner, a framework interconnecting PML and business is required. There are numbers of methodologies, including sophisticated criteria systems, elaborated to measure PML in terms of sustainability. However, none of these methodologies correspond to linkages among PML sustainability and business demands. Therefore, the paper aims to construct conceptual framework requirements for sustainable governance and explain effects of such requirements on business. Results of research indicate the hierarchy of measurable and aggregated overlapping criteria for evaluation of PML domains of sustainable strategy of a country. Among the most significant parameters are political, managerial and legitimate inclusion, level of corruption, balance of evidence based policy practice, process transparency, balance of interests, open process monitoring system, etc. These criteria represent principles of public in general and business in particular inclusion, rule of law and integrated solidarity based management that should be achieved for strategically driven sustainable development. Business motivation and engagement, stable and favorable political, procedural and legal environment, long-term strategy support via regulation, and other features of PML could secure sustainability of business strategy.

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Definitions and organizational practice of sustainability in the for-profit sector of Nova Scotia

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

Measuring Patients’ Perception and Satisfaction with the Romanian Healthcare System

Measuring Patients’ Perception and Satisfaction with the Romanian Healthcare System

The Sustainability Cycle and Loop: Models for a more unified understanding of sustainability

Bridging Political, Managerial and Legislative Components of Sustainability Strategy with Business Demands

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