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Sustainable Industrial Value Creation in SMEs: A Comparison between Industry 4.0 and Made in China 2025

  • Muller, Julian M.;Voigt, Kai-Ingo
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.659-670
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    • 2018
  • The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) confronts industrial manufactures with economic, ecological, as well as social benefits and challenges, referring to the Triple Bottom Line of sustainability. So far, research has mainly investigated its dimensions in isolation or economic aspects have not been compared with ecological and social perspectives. Further, research misses studies that are devoted to the special characteristics and requirements of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to contribute to close this research gap, providing a research context that encompasses all three dimensions of sustainability. The results are based on data obtained from 329 SMEs, 222 in Germany and 107 in China, therefore allowing for a comparison of the concepts "Industrie 4.0" and "Made in China 2025" in the context of SMEs. In general, German SMEs expect a lower impact through "Industrie 4.0", perceiving the concept as more beneficial for larger enterprises. We further find that Chinese SMEs foremost see social benefits. Challenges whilst introducing "Industrie 4.0"by German SMEs as well as several frame conditions are perceived more relevant than for "Made in China 2025", as seen by Chinese SMEs. The paper closes with implications for research and practice based on these findings.

Sense of Community Influencing Intent to Continue Farming for Young Farmers - Focusing on the Young Farmers 4-H Community - (청년농업인의 공동체 의식이 영농지속 의향에 미치는 영향 - 청년농업인 공동체 회를 중심으로 -)

  • Mi-Ri Jun
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.103-113
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to identify the sense of community influencing Intent to continue farming for young farmers to sustain their farming. Data were was collected from 124 young farmers during October 2023 among members of the 4-H youth organization in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. As a result of factor analysis, the sense of community was classified into three dimensions: sense of belonging, social interaction, and community bond. It was found that the intention to continue farming was classified into two dimensions: economic and social factors. Results showed that participants with less than five years of 4-H involvement had higher community awareness than those with more than five years. This study suggests that early-stage participants be more influenced by group belonging and interaction. Additionally, community awareness positively influenced both economic and social aspects of farming sustainability. Thus, higher community awareness among young farmers enhances the sustainability of their practices. This study is significant as it addresses the previously unexplored relationship between young farmers' community awareness and farming sustainability, suggesting that fostering community awareness can improve sustainable agricultural practices.

Ethics of Situated-ness, Sustainability and Ecology

  • Baek, Jin
    • Architectural research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2011
  • This article illuminates the relationship between the human being and the surrounding things by referring to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Criticizing our habitual approaches to apprehending 'what a thing is,' the two thinkers elucidate how 'what a thing is' can be understood only in conjunction with situations in the everyday and how humanity is joined with the qualities of the thing. In addition to the situated-ness of a thing, this article demonstrates the situated-ness of the human being, too, by referring to the notion of the horizon in the tradition of phenomenology. The last part of the paper discusses the basic premises of sustainability in reference to the situated-ness of both things and human beings. Framing natural things such as light as the alternative sources of energy propagandized in sustainability seems progressive. However, this attitude maintains fundamentally the same instrumental attitude we had towards nature, an attitude that has caused the current ecological crisis. By pointing this out, this article seeks to shape a ground for a broad spectrum of sustainability that embraces non-instrumental dimensions such as the practical, the ethical and the spiritual. This article also points out the limits of some of the currently available versions of ecology such as Shallow Ecology and Deep Ecology. In so doing, it seeks to lay out the parameters that any future version of sustainability and ecology needs to address.

Sustainability Practices to Achieve Sustainability in International Port Operations (국제항만 운영의 지속가능성을 확보하기 위한 지속가능활동)

  • Kim, Sihyun;Chiang, BongGyu
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.15-37
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    • 2014
  • Sustainability is a broad concept involving economic, social and environmental issues in operational and managerial processes. To assist ports to implant sustainability practices into their operations, this paper conceptualizes the structure of sustainability practice in port operations, based on interviews undertaken at Busan port in early 2013. Results revealed that, as a strategic practice to improve their internal business processes, sustainability practices necessitate the simultaneous pursuit of container traffic growth, low environmental impacts and corporate responsible image making, operational efficiency, efficiency of the use of the port area and sustainable growth. Through thematic analysis, the relevant practices were clustered into four sub-dimensions incorporating environmental technologies, continual monitoring and upgrading, internal process improvement, and cooperation and communication. Further, reporting the relevant issues such as barriers and challenges in carrying out sustainability practices, the findings provide useful insights for strategic agenda to assist ports to incorporate sustainability practices in their operations.

A Study on Sustainable Design Characteristics of Public-Regeneration-Architecture of Architecture for Humanity ('아키텍처 포 휴머니티'의 공공재생건축에 나타난 지속가능 디자인 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Yong-Yeun;Kim, Jong-Jin
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.190-197
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    • 2010
  • This is a study about public-regeneration-architecture design of the 3rd world damaged by the development of capital society of the 20th century and from the perspective of economically poor, anti-capitalist development from non-profit design organization. Active among such non-profit design organizations, the sustainable design characteristics of public-regeneration-architecture of the Architecture for Humanity will be discussed. I help it so as a continuous possibility design to have been given to public-regeneration-architecture of the Architecture for Humanity is small, and I establish a construction space at a few costs to people in a situation to be environmentally interior economic, to be cultural, and I am large, and to be able to generate profitable construction by environment at activation of a local community and worldwide dimensions. I look through a sustainable design way of this study classifies it to cultural sustainability that ecology-cultural approach in the environmental sustainability result ecology - central approach, and how I was applied to materials of construction, color, a pattern, a construction method, space configuration etc. There is the meaning to try to analyze a characteristic of a sustainable design to have appeared to public-regeneration-architecture of the Architecture for Humanity which I make a symbiosis, and you can live on it how in the present cities that city poor floor will add to.

A Study on the Weighting of Open Access Maturity Stages of Domestic Academic Organizations Using AHP: Focusing on Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (AHP를 활용한 국내 학술단체 오픈액세스 성숙단계 가중치 부여 연구 - 한국과학기술정보연구원을 중심으로 -)

  • Jin Ho Park
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.115-136
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to establish a weighting system for the diagnostic criteria of the KISTI Open Access Maturity Model. The maturity model consists of three dimensions, 12 sub-dimensions, and 28 measurement questions. Weighting was performed for the three dimensions and 12 sub-dimensions to determine their relative importance. The results showed that 'Institutionalization of OA' (48%) was the most important factor in the three dimensions. Among the sub-factors of "institutionalizing OA," "enacting and revising relevant regulations" (64%) was important, and "financing" (39%) was important for "OA sustainability. Submission and review (23%) and author rights (22%) were identified as important elements of "journal openness".

Analysis of Major Trends appeared in recent Aging Friendly Environment for Social Sustainability -with Reference to Presentations of the Conference on Environments for Elderly- (사회적 지속가능성을 위한 고령친화 환경 분야 최근 경향연구 -노인환경전문학술대회 발표물을 중심으로-)

  • An, So-Mi;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2010
  • Entering into the 21th century, the whole world is facing the various problems such as environmental disruption, resource exhaustion, and social isolation due to the consequences of population growth and economic development. Especially, as the world population is aging, the solutions for these problems are being suggested with a new paradigm of environmental design for sustainable society providing more affluent and safer life for them. Aging societies are experiencing the difficulty in pursuing persistent vitality of life when aged population is socially excluded, and communities are stagnant due to the decrease of economic activities. In other words, those factors are causing the problems of social sustainability associated with the vital duration of local society and communities. In order to develop successful environment for aging society, it is necessary for us to precisely review how advanced countries are changing their directions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine current trends of the aging friendly environment and find out the measures to promote social sustainability under the crisis of aging society. For this purpose, using qualitative methods, this study analyzed the contents presented at a professional conference , that showed current trends clearly, into three dimensions of social sustainability; the social integration of senior living communities with local society, the vitality of the communities, and the invigoration of individual senior lives. As a result, this study found that the measures that attempt to enhance the social sustainability of aging population can be also used to invigorate the communities.

A Cultural Dimension of Sustainability -Focusing on Cultural Policy and Arts Management in Germany- (지속가능성의 문화적 차원 - 독일의 문화정책과 문화예술경영을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Hwa-Im
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.41
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    • pp.141-161
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    • 2015
  • A fundamental understanding of "sustainable development" is generally related to a triptych of social justice, ecological integrity, and economic well-being. It aims at a development of human societies that would achieve the reconciliation of social justice, ecological integrity, and the well-being of all living systems an the planet. Furthermore, the quest for "sustainable development" focuses on economic, ecological, and social dimensions. interdependence of culture and sustainable development. The original syntax was not quite standard English, i.e., it was also unclear and vague. Ergo, this is a hypothetical edit. If you demur, then please rectify it. In Germany, th "Tutzinger Manifest" also includes the cultural dimension as a major dimension of sustainability, thereby arguing for the integration of culture in strategies for sustainability; and furthermore for the building of networks in order to overcome this gap. The cultural dimension of sustainability in Germany involves not only cultural policy, but also culture management.

The Application of Indicator Sets of Urban Sustainability Based on System-Orientor Framework Concerning to Regionality in Korea and US (시스템-오리엔터 분석틀을 통한 도시 지속가능성 지표의 지역적 특성에 따른 적용방안 -한국과 미국을 사례로 하여-)

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    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.382-401
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    • 2001
  • This paper intends to set up a standard sets of indicators based on system-orientor framework, in assuming urban place as a self-organizing system within which several subsystems are interlinked together. Also, The application guideline composed of normative-analytical-practical dimensions, is proposed how to put into practice a standard set of indicators according to the regional characteristics. In practice, Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province in Korea and St. Paul in Minnesota in US are selected for case studies in order to measure and evaluate urban sustainability. Both data availability for measured variables and establishment of minimum level and satisfactory level of sustainability are requested for furthermore researches.

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Bienestar Sustentable y su Medición. Ensayo para América Latina.

  • Perdomo, Jhoner;Phelan C, Mauricio;Levy-Carciente, Sary
    • Iberoamérica
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.33-77
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    • 2021
  • Starting from the capabilities approach, this work develops the concept of Sustainable Wellbeing, which highlights the importance of incorporating temporal sustainability in the analysis of wellbeing, with intergenerational justice. For its measurement, 12 dimensions are identified and defined, based on the philosophical approach of Central Capabilities of Martha Nussbaum. The measurement is applied to 18 Latin American countries, with 116 indicators and using a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). The results show the viability of operationalizing the capabilities approach and its potential to support the formulation of associated policies.