competitive, satisfy customer needs and have a lower environmental impact than traditional business models (p. 239) • Impacts on sustainability of a corporation • Drivers: Can provide access to new strategic markets opportunities, market trends and developments and potentially stay competitive as patterns of production and consumption are transformed. • Barriers: Fundamental cultural shifts are required. Markets and products may be hard to develop, consumers may resist. MGMT2001 - Corporate Sustainability
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even this limited success story at the national level – as Modi’s starry eyed upper and middle class following would like to believe? More significantly: what are the implications of Gujarat’s Development Model in terms of its sustainability and its desirability? What happens when we assess this development through a set of comprehensive measures, judge its implication for the average citizen’s material wellbeing, and see what it means for the political and economic rights of citizens? The study
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respect from them. This ensures that parents and families believe therefore everyone is working together for the good of the child or young person in danger. A strategy that could be considered in relation to the case study is to encourage the development of parenting skills. This would be beneficial for the parents of baby K as parenting skills do not come naturally to many people. Within the case study, as the nineteen year old is seen to be a young mother and with mild learning difficulties this
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17 Conclusions: 17 Recommendation: 18 7. Critical Reflection 18 References 19 Appendix 20 1. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine if Quality Controls done in a Business Intelligence(BI) Software/solution development programme are enough to attain quality to meet customer’s expectations. Research
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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 30 Whose Solution is It? Development Ideology and the Work of MicroEntrepreneurs in Caribbean Context by Marina Karides, Florida Atlantic University An economic leader in the Caribbean, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has incorporated micro-business development as one of its main strategies to alleviate poverty and unemployment and to spawn economic growth since the late 1980s (ILO 1991, 1998, Ministry of Finance 1996). Although the discovery
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ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13 MAKING SUSTAINABLE LIVING COMMONPLACE ABOUT HUL OUR PURPOSE TO MAKE SUSTAINABLE LIVING COMMONPLACE. We work to create a better future every day, with brands and services that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. Our first priority is to our consumers – then customers, employees, suppliers and communities. When we fulfil our responsibilities to them, we believe that our shareholders will be rewarded. EXAMPLES OF OUR PURPOSE-DRIVEN BRANDS In 2012,
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the problems mentioned above while providing other important benefits. A strong commitment to renewable energy development can: * Protect our environment and public health by avoiding or reducing emissions that contribute to smog, acid rain, and global warming; and by reducing water consumption, thermal pollution, waste, noise, and adverse land use * Increase economic development and create new family-wage jobs * Create new competition to help restrain fossil fuel price increases
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Key aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development Jade Morgan Key aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development Jade Morgan Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs Abraham Maslow created his hierarchy of needs; this is shown in the pyramid above. The pyramid is all about physiological needs and when safety and security has been met can only then humans reach for higher goals such as status and self-respect. Maslow
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while other criteria could be the annual turnover or gross output [5]. Until very recently, energy was rarely cited as one of the problems militating against the development of SMEs in Nigeria and elsewhere. This study is built on the argument that, unlike larger businesses, the establishment and operation of SMEs promotes economic development which by extension, boosts a country’s GDP number [6] (see Fig. 1). A separate study identifies this link (between SMEs and GDP) but could not establish if it
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duzce University, Düzce, Turkey a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 22 May 2012 Accepted 20 June 2012 Available online 9 August 2012 Keywords: Energy utilization Renewable energy Sustainable development Turkey a b s t r a c t The necessity of minimizing environmental impacts of energy use, particularly those with potentially worrisome global effects, is perhaps the greatest challenge resulting from the twentieth century’s energy advances. The
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