Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics, Aug 30, 2023
193 members of the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015... more 193 members of the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015. According to the 2030 Agenda, the SDGs contemplated the ending of poverty, the protection of the Earth and the promotion of prosperity for all. Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG 17) deals specifically with the creation of global alliances for development. The underlying assumption respecting this point is that these stakeholder partnerships encourage the interchange of knowledge, experience, technology, and other resources to administer efficiently the other sixteen SDGs. Although SDG 17 is very well established in theory, in practice there are still appreciable downfalls as to how to successfully make this theory become a reality. This short review will analyse the potential viability of SDG 17 "partnerships for the goals" with respect to SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), and thereupon SDG 13 (associated with climate action) utilising two southwestern France two wind farm initiatives.
The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address environmental, social, global, ... more The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address environmental, social, global, and economic challenges. The SDGs were a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals and assumed a common vision for the year 2030. Efforts to achieve the SDGs must be carried out in an integrated manner, respecting the three pillars of sustainable development, which are economic, social, and environmental. This review analyses the viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG 17), which aims to build global partnerships for development. It makes specific reference to multi-stakeholder collaboration between all sectors of society. While the first sixteen SDGs are dedicated to concrete actions, SDG 17 Partnerships for Development coordinates and facilitates the implementation of the other goals. SDG 17 promotes the “right way” of collaboration between different actors through the formation of multi-stakeholder partnerships, which are essential to foster sustainable development. A...
Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive in difficult times and overcome eco... more Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive in difficult times and overcome economic crises, recessions, and pandemics such as the current COVID-19. At present, the project management approach is changing from more authoritarian management models to frameworks that are based on the management of people and society. This article researches the concept of sustainable leadership in the project management profession. It evaluates the level of sustainable leadership among project managers in Spain using the Avery and Bergsteiner’s (2011) model of bees and locusts as a reference framework (Bee and Locust Sustainable Leadership Model). A qualitative study was carried out based on the analysis of the responses given by sixty-eight project managers in Spain who answered a 52-point ques-tionnaire. The findings yielded interesting results. It was found that in projects considered as temporal organizations, companies tended to employ a mixture of bee and locust’s leadership el...
Business sectors are generally evolving towards the adoption of models of sustainable practice, b... more Business sectors are generally evolving towards the adoption of models of sustainable practice, but is this also true in the specific audio-visual sector? This question leads us to examine whether sustainable practices are carried out in the image and sound sector, using sector business leadership as a starting point. Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive difficult times, such as seemingly ever more frequent economic crises and recessions, as well as to overcome the current COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Together with review of appropriate literature, the study aims to analyse the perception of managers in the audio-visual sector regarding styles of leadership in their organizations, through the Bee and Locust Sustainable Leadership framework that Avery and Bergsteiner developed in 2011. A quantitative study was carried out based on the analysis of the responses given by fifty middle and senior managers from the audio-visual sector in Spain who answered...
At present, the logistics industry in Spain is one that is mostly male-dominated, and women middl... more At present, the logistics industry in Spain is one that is mostly male-dominated, and women middle and top managers make up less than 10% of the workforce at these management levels. There is therefore an obvious lack of parity in this sector. Spanish regulation at present supports and promotes gender parity in different sectors including the logistics industry. Our article uses as a basis the fifth Sustainable Development Goal, “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. Twenty-four female middle and top managers of the logistics sector were interviewed via a questionnaire of 52 questions. The research for this study was based on Avery and Bergsteiner’s 2011 Honeybee and Locust Sustainable Leadership Model and strived to determine how female middle and top managers in the logistics sector in Spain perceived leadership in their workplace and whether these perceptions were aligned with Avery and Bergsteiner’s sustainability leadership model. Findings showed interesting...
Tendencias y organización empresarial frente al nuevo entorno tecnológico: Una perspectiva multidisciplinar, 2020, ISBN 9788413459042, págs. 183-204, 2020
IHERING. CUADERNOS DE CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS Y SOCIALES, 2021
There has been to date only limited consideration within the project management discipline of non... more There has been to date only limited consideration within the project management discipline of nonhuman actors as primordial stakeholders in projects. However, the inclusion of the roles of nonhuman actors is essential, when we consider that many projects in many areas, both within and outside the field of environmental conservation itself, such as for example in the fields of business and management, depend on natural resources for the development of their products. Despite this, natural resources tend to be overlooked in the stakeholder maps of projects in this wider context. Environmental Conservation projects are themselves especially interesting to study with regards to their stakeholder context and have been used as the experimental setting for the empirical work of this study. The primordial stakeholders of these projects are not social objects and therefore go beyond what are currently generally regarded as the limits of stakeholder theory. The study that has been used to a...
Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 2022
The aim of this chapter is to address the use of artificial intelligence in managing GSC, restruc... more The aim of this chapter is to address the use of artificial intelligence in managing GSC, restructuring it, and providing it with enough flexibility to meet the challenges and risks that the current situation—characterized by uncertainty—could threaten including integrity and correct operation. To do this, the authors propose to address issues such as what is a supply chain, what are risks and how risks can affect the management of the supply chain, particularly in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak. Optimizing supply chains and integrating all processes, from suppliers to customers, through warehouses, is a typical target for artificial intelligence (AI). It will be of critical importance to migrate towards ‘Agile' strategies, suitable for the uncertain times we live in, incorporating a timely risk analysis and allowing routine decisions to be taken within the framework of AI.
Working title: Effectiveness of protected area as localities for the conservation of crocodiles (... more Working title: Effectiveness of protected area as localities for the conservation of crocodiles (Crocodylus intermedius and C. acutus) Systematic review N ° 54 Reviewer(s) Data draft protocol published on website Data final protocol published on website Data of most recent amendment Data of most recent SUBSTANTIVE amendment Details of most recent changes Contact address
The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 17) of the United Nations, “Partnerships for th... more The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 17) of the United Nations, “Partnerships for the Goals” aims to, “strengthen the means of the implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”. The successful implantation of this goal will aid the execution and achievement of the other sixteen goals. This article explores the importance and viability of SDG 17, “Partnering for the Goals” through the analysis of one marine conservation case study. More specifically the applicability of SDG 17 was analyzed so as to assess the viability of SDG 14, “Life under Water”. This case study evaluated a marine conservation case study based in Normandie (France) that deals with the conservation of bottlenose dolphins. It presents a very interesting stakeholder situation, where we see that there are conflicting interests among governmental authorities, conservation organizations, recreational and commercial fishermen, among others. A case study approach was undert...
The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, a... more The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, aims to strengthen the means of the implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. The successful implantation of the UN’s seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal will aid the execution and achievement of the other sixteen goals. This article explores the importance and viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17, using a case study based in Valencia, Spain. The study presents an illustrative stakeholder situation, where we see that there are conflicting interests among conservationists, fishermen, municipality representatives, and others. Data collection was done using desk-based research and semi-structured interviews. The interview process was performed between October 2018 and October 2019. In total, 21 different stakeholders were interviewed. For the data analyses, a stakeholder register, Power–Interest Matrices, and a stakeholder map were used, a...
The aim of this research is to examine the main drivers of food waste in restaurants, the main to... more The aim of this research is to examine the main drivers of food waste in restaurants, the main tools used by the sector to reduce waste and to forward a number of solutions to waste generation. The paper uses a case study in a municipality of Madrid, Spain, where a number of restaurants’ managers were interviewed. The work collects information on how restaurants manage waste, investigate what are the perceptions and attitudes of managers, and determine what kind of solutions could be put in place to reduce in the restauration sector. Findings show that although restaurant managers are aware of the footprint that food waste create, excuses for inaction —going from putting the blame on clients or the space of their premises— were commonly used in the restaurants analysed for this research.
There has been growing social and scientific interest in recent years in laying hen welfare. Stre... more There has been growing social and scientific interest in recent years in laying hen welfare. Stress is an animal welfare parameter that has been found to alter laying hens' physiology and social behaviour. Our study aims to test the effects of the different housing systems (laying cage, barn and free range) on the laying hens' welfare. In this study we have taken a new approach to determine stress levels by measuring corticosterone and androgen concentrations in the eggs laid by hens housed in different farming systems. We found no relationship between commercial egg production type and androgen (testosterone and androstenedione) levels. Contrary to our expectations, we observed an almost significant positive trend between corticosterone levels and welfare quality: free range eggs contained the highest corticosterone concentrations. This would initially suggest that free range hens are more stressed than battery or barn hens. However, considering that chronic stressors can reduce an organism's hormonal output, our results could suggest that the low levels of corticosterone in battery hens are an indication of a chronic stress situation. Our data suggest that measuring corticosterone in eggs is a novel non-invasive method to determine stress levels in laying hens. This study would however need to be combined with a number of parameters (health, production and behaviour) to get an encompassing measure of laying hen welfare.
SUMMARY Female birds incorporate in the yolks of their eggs significant concentrations of a numbe... more SUMMARY Female birds incorporate in the yolks of their eggs significant concentrations of a number of different androgens. Yolk androgen has been shown to positively affect several fitness components at the embryo, nestling and juvenile stages. Previous experiments have shown that females lay eggs with higher androgen concentrations when they are paired with highly ornamented males. This pattern suggests that yolk androgens are costly to females. In this study, we experimentally manipulated adult female condition in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata by modifying the level of developmental stress they suffered as nestlings. This was achieved by cross-fostering nestlings to broods of varying brood size. Subsequently, we measured the yolk testosterone contents of the female offspring that resulted from the experimental manipulation. As predicted, females deposited decreasing concentrations of testosterone with increasing brood sizes experienced as nestlings: testosterone concentration ...
Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics, Aug 30, 2023
193 members of the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015... more 193 members of the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015. According to the 2030 Agenda, the SDGs contemplated the ending of poverty, the protection of the Earth and the promotion of prosperity for all. Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG 17) deals specifically with the creation of global alliances for development. The underlying assumption respecting this point is that these stakeholder partnerships encourage the interchange of knowledge, experience, technology, and other resources to administer efficiently the other sixteen SDGs. Although SDG 17 is very well established in theory, in practice there are still appreciable downfalls as to how to successfully make this theory become a reality. This short review will analyse the potential viability of SDG 17 "partnerships for the goals" with respect to SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), and thereupon SDG 13 (associated with climate action) utilising two southwestern France two wind farm initiatives.
The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address environmental, social, global, ... more The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address environmental, social, global, and economic challenges. The SDGs were a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals and assumed a common vision for the year 2030. Efforts to achieve the SDGs must be carried out in an integrated manner, respecting the three pillars of sustainable development, which are economic, social, and environmental. This review analyses the viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG 17), which aims to build global partnerships for development. It makes specific reference to multi-stakeholder collaboration between all sectors of society. While the first sixteen SDGs are dedicated to concrete actions, SDG 17 Partnerships for Development coordinates and facilitates the implementation of the other goals. SDG 17 promotes the “right way” of collaboration between different actors through the formation of multi-stakeholder partnerships, which are essential to foster sustainable development. A...
Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive in difficult times and overcome eco... more Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive in difficult times and overcome economic crises, recessions, and pandemics such as the current COVID-19. At present, the project management approach is changing from more authoritarian management models to frameworks that are based on the management of people and society. This article researches the concept of sustainable leadership in the project management profession. It evaluates the level of sustainable leadership among project managers in Spain using the Avery and Bergsteiner’s (2011) model of bees and locusts as a reference framework (Bee and Locust Sustainable Leadership Model). A qualitative study was carried out based on the analysis of the responses given by sixty-eight project managers in Spain who answered a 52-point ques-tionnaire. The findings yielded interesting results. It was found that in projects considered as temporal organizations, companies tended to employ a mixture of bee and locust’s leadership el...
Business sectors are generally evolving towards the adoption of models of sustainable practice, b... more Business sectors are generally evolving towards the adoption of models of sustainable practice, but is this also true in the specific audio-visual sector? This question leads us to examine whether sustainable practices are carried out in the image and sound sector, using sector business leadership as a starting point. Adopting a long-term perspective has helped companies survive difficult times, such as seemingly ever more frequent economic crises and recessions, as well as to overcome the current COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Together with review of appropriate literature, the study aims to analyse the perception of managers in the audio-visual sector regarding styles of leadership in their organizations, through the Bee and Locust Sustainable Leadership framework that Avery and Bergsteiner developed in 2011. A quantitative study was carried out based on the analysis of the responses given by fifty middle and senior managers from the audio-visual sector in Spain who answered...
At present, the logistics industry in Spain is one that is mostly male-dominated, and women middl... more At present, the logistics industry in Spain is one that is mostly male-dominated, and women middle and top managers make up less than 10% of the workforce at these management levels. There is therefore an obvious lack of parity in this sector. Spanish regulation at present supports and promotes gender parity in different sectors including the logistics industry. Our article uses as a basis the fifth Sustainable Development Goal, “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. Twenty-four female middle and top managers of the logistics sector were interviewed via a questionnaire of 52 questions. The research for this study was based on Avery and Bergsteiner’s 2011 Honeybee and Locust Sustainable Leadership Model and strived to determine how female middle and top managers in the logistics sector in Spain perceived leadership in their workplace and whether these perceptions were aligned with Avery and Bergsteiner’s sustainability leadership model. Findings showed interesting...
Tendencias y organización empresarial frente al nuevo entorno tecnológico: Una perspectiva multidisciplinar, 2020, ISBN 9788413459042, págs. 183-204, 2020
IHERING. CUADERNOS DE CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS Y SOCIALES, 2021
There has been to date only limited consideration within the project management discipline of non... more There has been to date only limited consideration within the project management discipline of nonhuman actors as primordial stakeholders in projects. However, the inclusion of the roles of nonhuman actors is essential, when we consider that many projects in many areas, both within and outside the field of environmental conservation itself, such as for example in the fields of business and management, depend on natural resources for the development of their products. Despite this, natural resources tend to be overlooked in the stakeholder maps of projects in this wider context. Environmental Conservation projects are themselves especially interesting to study with regards to their stakeholder context and have been used as the experimental setting for the empirical work of this study. The primordial stakeholders of these projects are not social objects and therefore go beyond what are currently generally regarded as the limits of stakeholder theory. The study that has been used to a...
Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 2022
The aim of this chapter is to address the use of artificial intelligence in managing GSC, restruc... more The aim of this chapter is to address the use of artificial intelligence in managing GSC, restructuring it, and providing it with enough flexibility to meet the challenges and risks that the current situation—characterized by uncertainty—could threaten including integrity and correct operation. To do this, the authors propose to address issues such as what is a supply chain, what are risks and how risks can affect the management of the supply chain, particularly in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak. Optimizing supply chains and integrating all processes, from suppliers to customers, through warehouses, is a typical target for artificial intelligence (AI). It will be of critical importance to migrate towards ‘Agile' strategies, suitable for the uncertain times we live in, incorporating a timely risk analysis and allowing routine decisions to be taken within the framework of AI.
Working title: Effectiveness of protected area as localities for the conservation of crocodiles (... more Working title: Effectiveness of protected area as localities for the conservation of crocodiles (Crocodylus intermedius and C. acutus) Systematic review N ° 54 Reviewer(s) Data draft protocol published on website Data final protocol published on website Data of most recent amendment Data of most recent SUBSTANTIVE amendment Details of most recent changes Contact address
The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 17) of the United Nations, “Partnerships for th... more The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 17) of the United Nations, “Partnerships for the Goals” aims to, “strengthen the means of the implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”. The successful implantation of this goal will aid the execution and achievement of the other sixteen goals. This article explores the importance and viability of SDG 17, “Partnering for the Goals” through the analysis of one marine conservation case study. More specifically the applicability of SDG 17 was analyzed so as to assess the viability of SDG 14, “Life under Water”. This case study evaluated a marine conservation case study based in Normandie (France) that deals with the conservation of bottlenose dolphins. It presents a very interesting stakeholder situation, where we see that there are conflicting interests among governmental authorities, conservation organizations, recreational and commercial fishermen, among others. A case study approach was undert...
The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, a... more The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, aims to strengthen the means of the implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. The successful implantation of the UN’s seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal will aid the execution and achievement of the other sixteen goals. This article explores the importance and viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17, using a case study based in Valencia, Spain. The study presents an illustrative stakeholder situation, where we see that there are conflicting interests among conservationists, fishermen, municipality representatives, and others. Data collection was done using desk-based research and semi-structured interviews. The interview process was performed between October 2018 and October 2019. In total, 21 different stakeholders were interviewed. For the data analyses, a stakeholder register, Power–Interest Matrices, and a stakeholder map were used, a...
The aim of this research is to examine the main drivers of food waste in restaurants, the main to... more The aim of this research is to examine the main drivers of food waste in restaurants, the main tools used by the sector to reduce waste and to forward a number of solutions to waste generation. The paper uses a case study in a municipality of Madrid, Spain, where a number of restaurants’ managers were interviewed. The work collects information on how restaurants manage waste, investigate what are the perceptions and attitudes of managers, and determine what kind of solutions could be put in place to reduce in the restauration sector. Findings show that although restaurant managers are aware of the footprint that food waste create, excuses for inaction —going from putting the blame on clients or the space of their premises— were commonly used in the restaurants analysed for this research.
There has been growing social and scientific interest in recent years in laying hen welfare. Stre... more There has been growing social and scientific interest in recent years in laying hen welfare. Stress is an animal welfare parameter that has been found to alter laying hens' physiology and social behaviour. Our study aims to test the effects of the different housing systems (laying cage, barn and free range) on the laying hens' welfare. In this study we have taken a new approach to determine stress levels by measuring corticosterone and androgen concentrations in the eggs laid by hens housed in different farming systems. We found no relationship between commercial egg production type and androgen (testosterone and androstenedione) levels. Contrary to our expectations, we observed an almost significant positive trend between corticosterone levels and welfare quality: free range eggs contained the highest corticosterone concentrations. This would initially suggest that free range hens are more stressed than battery or barn hens. However, considering that chronic stressors can reduce an organism's hormonal output, our results could suggest that the low levels of corticosterone in battery hens are an indication of a chronic stress situation. Our data suggest that measuring corticosterone in eggs is a novel non-invasive method to determine stress levels in laying hens. This study would however need to be combined with a number of parameters (health, production and behaviour) to get an encompassing measure of laying hen welfare.
SUMMARY Female birds incorporate in the yolks of their eggs significant concentrations of a numbe... more SUMMARY Female birds incorporate in the yolks of their eggs significant concentrations of a number of different androgens. Yolk androgen has been shown to positively affect several fitness components at the embryo, nestling and juvenile stages. Previous experiments have shown that females lay eggs with higher androgen concentrations when they are paired with highly ornamented males. This pattern suggests that yolk androgens are costly to females. In this study, we experimentally manipulated adult female condition in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata by modifying the level of developmental stress they suffered as nestlings. This was achieved by cross-fostering nestlings to broods of varying brood size. Subsequently, we measured the yolk testosterone contents of the female offspring that resulted from the experimental manipulation. As predicted, females deposited decreasing concentrations of testosterone with increasing brood sizes experienced as nestlings: testosterone concentration ...
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