{"title":"An Assessment of China’s Power Expansion in Asia Through the Lens of the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Naima Dmini","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p16","url":null,"abstract":"In the age of globalization, interdependence and trade cooperation between nations is at an all-time peak. The Belt and Road Initiative by China is one of the most significant projects undertaken by a nation toward infrastructural development in the world and sees growth in about 70 countries and organizations. While the project's scope strictly emphasizes strategic infrastructural development for global purposes, separating China's foreign policy and diplomatic ambitions from this project is challenging. In the presented report, the case of the Belt and Road Initiative has been examined comprehensively, with a high degree of attention on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects for the impact of China’s rise in Asia and implications for the geopolitica l balance of the region. Using a comprehensive literature survey, this study finds that while China indeed achieves the objective of economic growth through the project, it is also a cornerstone of Chinese foreign policy in the region. This threatens the security and sovereignty of other nearby nations already facing adversarial relations with China, including Tibet, Taiwan, and India. China’s oppression and disregard for their sovereignty will likely increase for these nations as the Chinese government gets more diplomatic leverage in its international relations through the Belt and Road Initiative.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45649473","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":"Leadership and Strategic Governance: The Pathway to Socio-Economic Sustainable Development in Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p307","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria, one of the populated black nations of the world have in recent times been embroiled in various hydra-headed menace that have left the country almost incapacitated. A country blessed with profound natural and human resources such as Nigeria would naturally be expected to soar on great wings to the pinnacle of socio-political, economic, and scientific greatness. However this germen expectation of many around the globe have suffered immense despair, as the country is plagued with tremendous socio-pathological situations such as economic collapse, poverty, kidnapping, crisis, terrorism and various degree of violence. In attempting a search as to a possible causal agent and factor to the nation’s submergence into this imbroglio, one realizes a polarized view as dimension to this problem. It is a truism, that while some remain convince that the causal string of Nigeria’s problems and setback is peculiarly corruption and mismanagement of funds, others hold tenaciously to the claims that there is an immense leadership flaw that culminates into various economic and socio-political collapse. The position of the leadership proponents is casted on the pillars that where the right kind of charismatic leaders with profound integrity are democratically installed, then the nation is bound to witness significant progress. This paper identifies the duo of leadership and strategic governance as an inseparable twin, significantly necessary for socio-political cum economic sustainable development in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865705","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":"Measuring Satisfaction of Customer and Quality of E -Services Using a Mediated Moderation Analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p203","url":null,"abstract":"E-commerce has grown in acceptance over the past few years in India. Recent studies have demonstrated and generally acknowledged that customer loyalty and satisfaction levels for online transactions are lower than those for more conventional methods of buying. A problem for online businesses is how to keep and improve online client’s loyalty and satisfaction. This article aims to comprehend the service quality factors that influence client’s loyalty and satisfaction. Parasuraman's E-S-QUAL four determinants i.e. efficiency, requirement fulfilment, system accessibility, and privacy, are used to construct model for assessing e service quality, consumer satisfaction and online purchases loyalty measures. Data from a sample of 400 respondents was then analysed using a PLS estimation and mediated moderation analysis. 164 online buyers participated from a wide and varied range of backgrounds on the basis of goods purchased. The findings show a positive relationship between efficiency, fulfilment, privacy and consumer loyalty. Customer satisfaction also has a favourable impact from all e service quality measures. The paper examines service quality from many angles, the study concludes that all the factors has a favourable impact on customer loyalty and satisfaction except system accessibility. This paper attempts to explain these results because they are somewhat at odds with earlier research findings.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42068020","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":"Security Dimension of Financial Support for the Sustainable Development of Ukrainian Regions","authors":"Olha Liakhovych, Yurii Dziurakh, Anatolii Kucher, Tetiana Danko, Roksolana Vilhutska, Halyna Luchko","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p245","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the article is to present the results of determining the security level of financial support of the regions of Ukraine in the conditions of the concept of sustainable development implementation. The research substantiates a set of indicators that monitor the level of financial support for the development of the region from the following sources: the financial market, the corporate sector, and public finance. The proposed indicators and their security levels include the following aspects: the sustainability of public finances, the level of entrepreneurial activity, the investment climate, the development of the banking sector and the standard of living of the population. The level of financial security of Ukraine ’ s regions was assessed on the basis of an integrated approach. Systemic interrelationships between the resulting indicator of the financial security of the regions and the factors affecting its level were also revealed. The obtained results provided an answer to the questions regarding the existing problems of financial support for the sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine. Based on the results of the research, the priority directions for ensuring the financial security of the region are substantiated. The recommendations are developed on the basis of the study of the impact of the security factors of the financial market, the corporate sector, and public finances on the achievement of sustainable development goals.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47204676","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":"Does presence on the UNESCO World Heritage List Support Sustainable Development? A Market-Driven Exploratory Approach","authors":"lin Veghes","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p274","url":null,"abstract":"Noting the increasing threats at the address to the cultural and natural heritage and considering their deterioration or disappearing a harmful impoverishment of all the nations, UNESCO adopted fifty years ago, at its 17th General Conference held in Paris, the Convention concerning the protection of the cultural and natural heritage aiming to safeguard it as part of the world's heritage of mankind as a whole. One of its provisions, the inscription on the World Heritage List, has rapidly evolved from recognizing the outstanding universal value to supporting the promotion and capitalization of the heritage sites and their areas by attracting domestic and international visitors interested to discover, explore, enjoy, and engage the cultural heritage, generating the financial resources and creating workplaces to support the social and economic growth. Discussing the impact of presence on the World Heritage List of cultural sites and acknowledging the key role of cultural tourism in the capitalization of cultural heritage, the paper assesses the relationships between the inscription on the List and the sustainable development in terms of the number of incoming tourists, revenues generated from tourism, and the number of the workplaces created in the travel and tourism industry for a group of selected countries.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42959439","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":"Local Development Evaluation - A Methodological Proposal","authors":"Marco Domingues, A. A. Monteiro","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p192","url":null,"abstract":"The absence of the evaluation of local development in academic literature reflects the lack of debate at present, but also the need for analysis of evaluation proposals and models. This article aims to present the results of recent research work in this field, seeking to contribute to the debate around the evaluation of local development. Through exploratory interviews with 20 key informants with links to Animar - Portuguese Association for Local Development as the representative entity of Social Economy in Portugal, its analysis resulted in a \"political-administrative space\" of evaluation and the local development evaluation, a methodological proposal of an evaluation proposal with 7 dimensions of analysis and 37 indicators. It is concluded that the evaluation of local development based on the proposed model generates a set of possibilities, by contributing to a local diagnosis through the auscultation of the entities of the social economy sector.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44311035","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}
I. Honcharuk, Tetiana Yemchyk, D. Tokarchuk, Valerii Bondarenko
{"title":"The Role of Bioenergy Utilization of Wastewater in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Ukraine","authors":"I. Honcharuk, Tetiana Yemchyk, D. Tokarchuk, Valerii Bondarenko","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p231","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the issues of Ukraine ’ s achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 6. Clean water and sanitation and 7. Affordable and clean energy through bioenergy recycling of wastewater. The purpose of the study was to analyze the current state of wastewater management on the example of Ukraine, as well as to investigate a successful case of bioenergy recycling by a food industry enterprise. The study was based on the principles of sustainable development, circular economy, and scientific research methods: abstract and logical, monographic, graphic and tabular, analysis and synthesis, abstraction, and generalization. The results obtained show that Ukraine has a problem with the safety and quality of drinking water, and wastewater of various origins is a significant pollutant. Among the industrial enterprises of Ukraine, one of the largest consumers of water is the food industry and utilities that belong to the sphere of housing and household services, mainly water utilities. The state of drinking water safety and quality due to pollution remains unsatisfactory. As a result of the study, the authors suggested using bioenergy recycling of wastewater. The authors illustrate a successful case of a particular food industry enterprise in Vinnytsia region, Ukraine, where this practice solved the following problems: 1) pollution of the river by untreated wastewater of the enterprise; 2) energy supply of the enterprise due to biogas from wastewater of its own production, and also additional products - organic fertilizers, which are in great demand in the market.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49010043","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":"Resilient Strategies of International Marketing Segmentation","authors":"","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p174","url":null,"abstract":"In the new realities, Ukrainian businesses faced many challenges. A significant number of companies suffered material losses as a result of hostilities on the territory of their operations, and many companies were forced to leave their permanent location and resume their business activities in a new place. Entering the international markets of Ukrainian enterprises has become a new prospect for their recovery. The study improves the methodology of international marketing segmentation by grouping it by parameters. With the help of this methodology and certain parameters that are relevant for the domestic agro-industrial business, the markets of foreign countries with indicators as close as possible to the Ukrainian economy were identified, and the assessment result allowed to draw conclusions about the entry of domestic enterprises offering milk and dairy products to new international markets. To segment more than 160 international markets, the following indicators were chosen as parameters: \"Share of agricultural products in total GDP\", \"Average distance between partner countries with all importers\", \"Distance between the partner market and the Ukrainian market\", \"Difference between the average permissible distance for the international market and the Ukrainian market, km\", \"Average tariff (estimated) for exports applied by the relevant market\", \"Assessment of favorable business conditions\", \"Trade balance\". The study identified the demand for the product group \"04 Milk and dairy products\" in 160 international markets and recommended that Ukrainian producers of milk and dairy products make marketing decisions to enter the markets of the European Union: Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, France, and Finland, which are divergent markets for the export of milk and dairy products from Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43668896","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}
B. E. Udoh, Ishaku Prince, J. Enemuo, S. Moguluwa, C. Onyejiaku, I. J. Attamah, E. Udo
{"title":"Oil Price Fluctuation, Business and Economic Growth Effect: Evidence from Nigeria","authors":"B. E. Udoh, Ishaku Prince, J. Enemuo, S. Moguluwa, C. Onyejiaku, I. J. Attamah, E. Udo","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p119","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria’s economic and business climate vulnerabilities are largely instigated by oil price fluctuation through oil market and production alterations. The study scrutinises oil price fluctuation symmetric effect on the business climate, economic growth and macroeconomic indicators using daily data from 2012 – 2022. To accomplish this goal, the structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodologies were adopted and incorporated to examine the long-short-run symmetric effect using realised volatility as an indicator of oil price fluctuation. Findings revealed long-short run persistent oil price shock effect on macroeconomic indicators, economic growth and business climate. To reduce the oil demand-supply chain risk exposure and disruption. Economic diversification and investments in trade and non-trade sectors are recommended. A significant nexus between oil prices and macroeconomic indicators was observed using the SVAR model when there is shocks in oil price.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45165096","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":"Barriers to Product Innovations: A Theoretical Knowledge and Research Framework","authors":"Katerina Kozludzhova","doi":"10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2023.v12n2p67","url":null,"abstract":"The essential role of product innovations for company’s sustainability and growth leads researchers to explore the scientific literature and provide knowledge that helps the conduction of empirical researches on this topic. The paper brings light to the critical points of the product innovation process that can create obstacles to development of successful innovations. The main purpose of the paper is to investigate, summarize and establish an understanding of the barriers to product innovations. The paper applies “systematic literature review” as a research method to explore theoretical findings of other authors. The systematic literature review collects multiple literature sources and summarizes them to answer the defined in the paper specific research questions. Investigating the research questions, the author of the current paper introduces two groups of barriers to product innovations – general barriers and specific barriers. The paper provides an original and a new aspect of researching the barriers to product innovations. It gives new directions for investigating the barriers to product innovations – exploring the different stages of the product innovation process and seeking for obstacles within them that companies struggle with. The presented systematic literature review supports the construction of specific empirical indicators and variables, also defined in the paper, which researchers can use for conduction of studies in the field of product innovations. The paper also suggests measurement definitions and sample questions to navigate the researchers to formulate proper questionnaires that provide adequate answers.","PeriodicalId":46519,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43401452","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}