Perspective Of Sustainable Development Goals Research Articles

“Integrated thinking and reporting” towards sustainable business models: a concise bibliometric analysis

Purpose This paper aims to provide a thorough and systematic overview of the academic literature focusing on the role of integrated reporting (IR) and integrated thinking (IT) in achieving sustainable business models (SBMs). The paper discusses whether the incorporation of newer IR systems can facilitate the integration of processes, as well as a better allocation of resources and capital to create long-term value, according to a circular approach. Design/methodology/approach Based on a database containing 60 publications in English with a publication date from 1990 to 2019, a bibliometric analysis is conducted. Data on publications, journals, authors and citations are collected, verified, cross-checked and examined by applying bibliometric measures. Findings Bibliometric analysis has identified that IR and IT have determined an evolution in the way companies communicate and create value, facilitating the integration of processes and a better allocation of resources and capital. However, market practice still perceives them as simple reporting tools to meet stakeholders’ needs rather than as critical corporate governance tools. Research limitations/implications This study highlights key issues in the past literature on IR and IT to meet SDGs, contributing also to the identification of critical difficulties that companies encounter in attempting to attain sustainable goals. Originality/value This document contributes to the existing literature on IR, IT and SBMs through a systematic review of the literature on these topics along with the sustainable development goals perspective. The study, furthermore, attempts to assess the role that the relevant literature attributes to IR and IT in the SBMs architecture.

Sustainable Development Goals: Tracing Social Media’s Tamil Citizen Voices in Indian context

As per Human Development Index of 2019 report, India is in the 129th rank. Nearly 28% of the Indian population lives below the poverty line. As per another report from The Lancet journal on healthcare index, India is in 154th position among the 195 countries. According to India’s Annual Status of Education Report 2017, 14% of children in the age group of 14-18 are not enrolled in any school system. Education, health and living standards are the primary factors to measure the quality of life in any social settings. Giving this grim view of social conditions in India, the role of public institutions as well as individual members’ are crucial in lending adequate support to the society to enhance the standings of living conditions. According to a study published in 2011, only 2% of news space were being given to the issues pertinent to development by the leading Indian national newspapers. Many news stories in these 2%, might have appeared due to 'Coups and earthquakes syndrome’ type of events that contained news values of death, disease and disaster. From the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals, the participatory approach of individuals is more meaningful in order to achieve the stated 17 goals as well as 169 targets. Apart from the government’s initiative for the SDGs and substantial fundings from the donor agencies, awareness about the SDGs is essential and ideal for the bottom-up approach towards achieving the development goals and its targets by 2030. In this respect, with the help of twitteR package of and text mining tools of R programming, citizen’s voice was measured for those keywords and its equivalent hashtags which were appeared in June 2018. English is being the elite language in India, one regional language Tamil would be included to compare the non-English private sphere with regard to SDGs in Indian context.

Implementation of the recognition and respect of the Dayak Iban Semunying customary law community in human rights and SDGs

Weak implementation of the recognition and respect for Indigenous Peoples of Iban Semunying be problems related to their discriminatory practices in running a government policy. Why is the implementation of the recognition and respect for the Indigenous People of Dayak Iban Semunying still weak and how the principles of human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals are the two issues raised in this article. In this study it aims to find out what are the things that form the basis of the weak protection of indigenous peoples. The results of this study are expected to provide insight into the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with a perspective of sustainable development goals.

International Women’s Day Through the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

International Women’s Day Through the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Can social entrepreneurship help attain sustainable development goals: a study of India

This paper attempts to understand, analyse and interpret the role of social entrepreneurs towards sustainable development. The paper significantly contributes to the existing literature by evaluating the government's policy framework with respect to social entrepreneurship from the perspective of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The paper also discusses the origin and evolution of social entrepreneurship in India. The paper uses data from various government, non-government and international agency sources for attaining its research objectives. The paper concludes by recommending the policy inputs in respect of social entrepreneurship for ensuring sustainable development in synchronisation with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Finding and Minding the Gaps in State-Of-The-Art Lean and Green Marketing in the Construction Industry

Purpose – This paper aims to enhance sustainable development in the construction industry by presenting a literature review from the perspective of sustainable development goals (SDG) on marketing in the construction industry, its importance on management strategies, marketing capabilities, and the relationship between SDG and lean and green marketing (LGM) management in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach – A structured literature review was used as the research methodology to find out how the determinant topics were addressed in state-of-the-art of the literature. A total of 21 combinations of different keywords were applied to the search engine in the title, abstract, and keywords to gather research and review articles published within a period of ten years. As a result, 114 academic papers were examined. Findings and implications – Articles were examined in three stages, focusing on: marketing and construction industry, marketing and its importance on management, and LGM. The gaps in the literature were identified and potential future research areas were highlighted. Limitation – Using Elsevier (www.sciencedirect.com) as the database and focusing on research and review articles written in English only are the limitations of this research. Originality – This research contributes to the construction industry marketing literature, green marketing, and LGM in the construction industry. This research reviews the literature based on a large sample of papers in three stages. It outlines the gaps in the literature and may serve as a guide for further research of marketing and LGM strategy implementation in the construction industry.

Can social entrepreneurship help attain sustainable development goals: a study of India

This paper attempts to understand, analyse and interpret the role of social entrepreneurs towards sustainable development. The paper significantly contributes to the existing literature by evaluating the government's policy framework with respect to social entrepreneurship from the perspective of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The paper also discusses the origin and evolution of social entrepreneurship in India. The paper uses data from various government, non-government and international agency sources for attaining its research objectives. The paper concludes by recommending the policy inputs in respect of social entrepreneurship for ensuring sustainable development in synchronisation with the Sustainable Development Goals.

An Inquiry into Islamic Finance from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, the first 11 relate directly to Islamic economics and finance. Indeed, they are a perfect fit with the purpose and principles of Islamic finance. Moreover, the Islamic finance industry has contemporary products to address these SDGs. This paper presents current product development and implementation examples of Islamic finance in the context of SDGs. In this regard, success with SDGs can be attained through resource mobilization. Reality suggests that such mobilization requires product development and successful SDG programs. Further, in order to attract resources, SDG programs need to provide convincing results. The most effective programs, as presented in this paper, should be financed with suitably employed resource mobilization tools. Islamic finance can address the first 11 SDGs by harnessing modern resource mobilization products to these programs. Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Micro Finance, SME Financing, Infrastructure Development, Affordable Housing, International Trade, Complementary Currency, Cash Waqf, Zakat, Economic Empowerment Fund, Crowd Funding.

국내 산림정책과 지속가능발전목표(SDGs)간의 연관성 분석

This study analysed the linkage between national forest policy in Korea, namely the 5SUPth/SUP National Forest Master Plan, 2016 Korea Forest Service Performance Management Plan, the 3SUPrd/SUP National Sustainable Development Plan, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 7 strategies of the 5SUPth/SUP National Forest Master Plan were related to 11 Goals of SDGs, and 5 strategies of 2016 Korea Forest Service Performance Management Plan were associated with 7 areas of SDGs, and 4 strategies within 3SUPrd/SUP National Sustainable Development Plan were linked to 7 Goals of SDGs. Among 87 national forest indicators compiled from three respective forest-related policies of Korea, 45 national indicators were related to 18 SDGs indicators. This indicates that 52% of national indicators of Korean forest policy are reflecting the language of SDGs. However, seeing from SDGs perspective, only 18 out of 241, which accounts for 7.8% of SDGs indicators are related to national indicators. The findings imply that a number of national forest-related indicators do not meet the diverse dimension of SDGs which provides potential areas for forest to contribute. Based on the findings, following recommendations were suggested: 1) the term used in forest policy should be aligned to SDGs targets so that it can be embedded in national policies, and 2) indicators should be further contextualized as well as in its assessment system. Lastly, it suggests for leveraging 3) ‘5 Processes of sub-national climate change adaptation plan’ and the core concept of REDD+ MRV which could provide fundamental background for implementing SDGs framework to national forest policy.

Trade Liberalization and Gender Inequality in Emerging Economies - from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

The study identifies the effect of trade liberalization on gender inequality in labor market, welfare, and empowerment in the emerging economies considering the significance of gender inequality issue in sustainable development goals (SDGs). It uses global gender gap index (GGGI) and its four sub-indexes namely economic participation and opportunity, education, health and politics as indicators of gender inequality in different aspects. Due to the problem of endogeneity and the presence of time-invariant variables Hausman-Taylor estimation technique has been applied to a panel data set of 40 countries for the period of 2006-2014. The results of the study suggest that trade openness significantly reduces gender inequality in labor market in high growth EAGLE and NEST countries but increase the inequality in other emerging economies. The effect of trade openness in reducing gender inequality in welfare and empowerment is positive, but higher trade increases health gap in other emerging economies. The effects of culture and religion on gender inequality are mixed and differ substantially across countries. According to the findings of the study, trade and government expenditure can be used as essential tools to achieve gender equality goal of SDGs if the proper policy is adopted.