{"title":"Developing a Sustainable Accounting Framework in the Indian Cement Industry vis-a-vis Manger Perspectives","authors":"Vineet Chouhan, Shubham Goswami","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.313642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.313642","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing interest of businesses to make their operations sustainable. But so far, government efforts have led to weak voluntary standards that make companies less accounted for. Companies must manage various performance criteria, metrics, and reporting obligations due to stakeholder requirements as the existing financial accounting procedure restricts the reporter's ability to measure environmental and social initiatives in monetary terms. This study proposes a SAF model for the Indian industry in terms of performance metrics that convey a reasonable presentation of company performance on sustainability heads and ensure that investors can access the total mix of information for the decision-making process. For the study, a sample of 150 officials of the cement companies was taken using a structured questionnaire. The results revealed that there is a lack of any SAR framework for Indian cement companies and there is a requirement of a favourable stakeholder perspective of the need for such measures. The newly developed SAF would improve transparency and performance.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43121208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of Online Purchase Intention Among Young Consumers in Punjab","authors":"Pooja Kansra, Sumit Oberoi","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.292041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.292041","url":null,"abstract":"With the technological advancement, shopping behaviour among the young consumers undergone a paradigm shift. Online shopping has made the market available at a single touch of customer. The aim of the present article is to identify the determinants of online purchase intention among young consumers. A structured questionnaire based survey was performed in the state of Punjab, with a multi-stage stratified random sample of 200 respondents. The analysis was made with the help of descriptive statistics and Probit regression. The analysis of the Probit regression identified age, convenience and ease of quality comparison are positively affecting online shopping among youngsters. On the other hand, personal privacy, risk in giving card details and tangibility of product act as a barrier in online purchase intention among young consumers of Punjab. Online sellers should focus on these factors in order to target young consumers.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70470495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent Technologies for Excellency in Sustainable Operational Performance in the Healthcare Sector","authors":"Suchismita Swain, P. Oyekola, K. Muduli","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.313963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.313963","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years witnessed lots of advancements in internet of medical things (IoMT), innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and fog computing-based healthcare practices. Adoption of these intelligent technology-based solutions could help healthcare establishments to improve their sustainable operational performance. However, success of implementation of smart technology-enabled Health 4.0 practices depends upon the coordinated efforts from all the stakeholders including patients, physicians, healthcare workers, healthcare administrators, policy makers, and technology service providers towards its adoption. In this regard, this research has been conducted to investigate the current status of Health 4.0 implementation in India and readiness of the Indian healthcare sector towards its adoption. This paper further employs the SWOT analysis to identify the current areas that need immediate improvement to facilitate Health 4.0 adoption.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47159924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammed Sadique Khan, A. Hafiz, Shaik Dawood Abdul Khadar, Mohammed Fahad
{"title":"Sustainability in the Service Quality of Healthcare Facilities","authors":"Mohammed Sadique Khan, A. Hafiz, Shaik Dawood Abdul Khadar, Mohammed Fahad","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.313962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.313962","url":null,"abstract":"The basic determining elements of a healthcare centre are the patient's satisfaction provided by the hospitals, behavioral and psychological aspects, quality and efficiency of the hospitals. The imprecise response of patients adds to the complexity in evaluation of quality. On the other hand, in order to have a sustainable service quality in healthcare centre, environment issues related to patient wellness play a greater role. The major indicator in this regard is the disposal of medical waste and the cleanliness of the centre. Thus, the involvement of multiple criteria, uncertainty, and qualitative factors make the quality evaluation of healthcare facilities very complicated. In this research, a pilot study has been carried out. The ranking of dimensions as well as the hospitals are established using fuzzy analysis. The outcome of this study can be helpful to choose a better service from the range of service provider options, and secondly, managers can locate their area of weakness for continuous improvement and sustainability in health service quality.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41597842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability Challenges in the MSME Sector of India Post COVID-19","authors":"S. Satapathy, Meghana Mishra","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.313961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.313961","url":null,"abstract":"MSME area adds to business age at a low capital expense contrasted with enormous businesses. It helps in the sustainable industrialization of metropolitan and country zones, decreases provincial irregularity, and guarantees evenhanded conveyance of pay and abundance. This examination paper talks about the different issues of financing for miniature, little, and medium undertakings during and post COVID-19. Through the writing survey, plainly money is a basic device for the development and improvement of SMEs. The challenges of sustainable MSMEs are money, policies, environmental regulation, supply chain, etc., but during and post COVID-19, problems and challenges are tackling financial issues of companies, restart supply chain management, new startups, etc. Although government endeavors have been made for the smooth progression of credit to MSMEs areas, MSMEs require more research. Hence, an attempt is made to prioritize challenges of MSMEs during and post COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43012428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ICTs and the Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"E. Carayannis, Martin Wynn","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.290325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.290325","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are universally seen to be global in their nature and reach, but there is a growing acceptance that they have an important local dimension. At the same time, there is an increasing recognition of the need for appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support and monitor the SDGs. This article adopts a qualitative inductive research approach in examining a range of public authority and academic source material, and framework analysis is used to record, categorise and critique this material. The findings provide an overview of the role of the SDGs at the local level and an assessment of how the localisation of the SDGs is being addressed in some urban areas within Western Europe. The findings also indicate how ICTs are being deployed to support the localisation process in Western Europe and the wider world. This is followed by a discussion of some emergent issues related to the localisation of the SDGs, including the increasingly important role of ICTs.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47798761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrophotometric Determination of Zinc in Food Waste Water Samples in the Presence of Surfactants Using Dithizone Method","authors":"N. Shekhar, S. Biswas, A. Sahu","doi":"10.4018/IJSESD.290006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSESD.290006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70468810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONVENTIONAL, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HYBRID BASED MPPT TECHNIQUE FOR 852.6-WATT PV SYSTEM","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.302463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.302463","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Matlab & Simulation software is used for analysis and comparison of 8(Eight) different MPPT. Different MPPT techniques that have been considered in this article are PWM-based, Perturb and Observation (P&O), Incremental Conductance (InC), and Modified InC (MIC) that comes under the Conventional Method. In the Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is chosen and in Hybrid method Neuro-Fuzzy Network (NFN) and Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) has been considered. PV module of 852.2 Watt is designed with the Boost Converter which can boost the voltage up to 185 Volt for all MPPT. A set of data has been taken for FLC, ANN, NFN, and ANFIS. After implementation, the result has been analyzed for standard test conditions and for the different environmental conditions. In this article, both irradiation and the temperature have been varied together for all MPPT rest are kept constant.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49191083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mayfly Algorithm Based Optimal Placement of Capacitor for the Minimization of Losses and Improvement of Voltage Profile in a Microgrid","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.302465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.302465","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, an algorithm based on mayfly is presented towards the optimal capacitor placement for the minimization of losses and improvement of the voltage profile. It employs the concept of fixed and switched capacitor with the former serves as an alternative to later. A factor based on loss sensitivity was employed in locating a candidate bus, this helps in search space reduction and optimal sizing and placement of capacitor were realized using the mayfly algorithm. The effectiveness of this technique was tested on the standard 10 bus and 15 bus radial distribution system which upon comparison the result surpassed that of the previous method .","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47476536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review on Reactive Power Capability of Distributed Solar PV Inverter in Distribution Systems","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijsesd.302466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.302466","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the rapid increase in energy demand and associated environmental effects, renewable energy especially solar energy is being prioritized and promoted as the best choice for meeting energy demands and mitigating environmental issues. Solar energy is effectively utilized in the distributed generation (DG). The main component of the solar photovoltaic system used for converting produced DC power into AC power is the solar inverter. The solar inverter can supply both active and reactive power. However, conventional solar inverters are configured for producing only active power. Demand for reactive power is served by grid only. Therefore, the solar inverters can be upgraded to utilize their reactive power capability also. Which will decrease the reactive power requirement from the grid, resulting in the mitigation of various power quality issues. Reactive power compensation by a smart solar inverter does not require much additional cost or system resources. This article reviews various reactive power support and control techniques provided by the solar inverter.","PeriodicalId":38556,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44627309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}