Driving Network Externalities in Education for Sustainable Development

To solve the “wicked problems” of sustainability, education for sustainable development (EfSD) that raises the young generation to become change agents is necessary. For this purpose, fieldtrips that educate students in the real world about other stakeholders are effective, but since sustainable issues do not have clear solutions, cooperative learning (CL) in which students learn from each other is useful. The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence of the learning process on learning outcomes and their influence on learning objectives in real-world EfSD using CL. A hypothesis model consisting of seven hypotheses was set up, and a questionnaire survey of high school students who participated in the real-world EfSD was conducted. Results of the structural equation modeling of data from 2441 respondents supported all seven hypotheses. Implicit learning as a learning process promotes knowledge acquisition as a learning outcome, while explicit learning enhances self-efficacy. Although knowledge acquisition promotes citizenship development as the learning objective of EfSD, self-efficacy does not promote citizenship development. Self-efficacy affects knowledge acquisition more than implicit learning. This study contributes to EfSD research by clarifying the difference in the effects of the learning process.

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Effects of Learning Process and Self-Efficacy in Real-World Education for Sustainable Development

2021

“…Community activities increase participation by inviting friends through word of mouth rather than extensive advertising [23]. Knowledge creation is facilitated by widespread knowledge sharing through expanded organizational networks [24,25]. However, while many studies have examined the drivers of social participation among older people [26][27][28], how knowledge creation among the elderly is promoted in community activities has been overlooked.…”

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Older People’s Knowledge Creation Motivations for Sustainable Communities

Shirahada

2022

To enhance the sustainability of local communities in an aging society, older people have begun independently organizing community activities as social support services. The knowledge created by the community-dwelling older people for these community activities is a valuable resource. Although many studies have addressed the motivations of older people to participate in social activities, few studies have explored motivations toward knowledge creation in community activities. The present study investigates how older people are motivated knowledge creation in community activities from the perspective of services marketing. We conducted in-depth interviews with older individuals participating in community activities and identified four scenes (reminiscence, resonance, reuse, and rewarding) by content analysis. These four scenes are associated with specific contexts describing how older people are motivated knowledge creation in community activities. We interpreted these scenes from the axes of the source of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) and approaches for psychological well-being (affiliation and power) and developed the 4R model. Our findings add insights to services marketing to enhance the sustainability of local communities through community activities.

Investigating the Relative Performance of Bricks-and-Mortar, Clicks-and-Mortar, and Pure-Click Firms in Taiwan

Chen

Wang

2021

The study compares the relative performance among bricks-and-mortar, clicks-and-mortar, and pure-click firms. The research model was tested in the Taiwan service industry using a Taiwan Economic Journal dataset of 1448 firms. Using regression analysis, the study provides empirical evidence that clicks-and-mortar firms outperform pure-click firms in terms of efficiency, but not better in profitability and even worse in efficiency than bricks-and-mortar firms. Pure-click firms need to improve their accounts receivable turnover ratio and total assets turnover. While the findings are not in full congruence with past studies, we provide theoretical explanations. Based on the findings, a strategic guide on going clicks and mortar is provided to practitioners.