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Mitigating the Davos dilemma: towards a global self-sustainability index

Dsouli, O., Khan, N., Kakabadse, N. K. and Skouloudis, A. (2017) Mitigating the Davos dilemma: towards a global self-sustainability index. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 25(1) 1350-4509.

Item Type: Article
Abstract: The ‘Davos dilemma’ posits a sustainability crisis, provoked by rising human population and intense competitive behaviours, in terms of control and access to depleting natural resources. More broadly understood as an ecological problem, rather than just socio-economic behavioural deficiencies, the call is for better integrated social, natural and business-indexed reporting within planetary boundaries. This poses challenges for nationally governed societies to equitably account for self-sustainability performance, in enabling their successive government agendas to re-orientate policies and industry investments as innovation towards achieving this in the longer term. We propose and test a global self-sustainability index for countries across four metrics: economic, environmental, social and innovation. Our tentative findings from a cross-country analysis of 27 countries during 2007–2010 illustrate the approach for wider systematic analysis and as a basis for future large-scale assessments on self-sustainability within and between countries.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Davos dilemma, economic-, environmental-, social-performance, innovation, global self-sustainability index
Creators: Dsouli, Ouarda, Khan, Nadeem, Kakabadse, Nada K and Skouloudis, Antonis
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: Faculties > Faculty of Business & Law > Accounting & Finance
Date: 2 February 2017
Date Type: Published Online
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
Volume: 25
Number: 1
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2016.1278565
ISSN: 1350-4509
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10756

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