Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation

Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 335

ISBN13: 9781466651661|ISBN10: 1466651660|EISBN13: 9781466651678

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5166-1

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In the age of corporate responsibility, green technology and sustainability continue to grip the consciousness of business and academic institutions. However, development of appropriate business-driven green applications requires an awareness of best practices of the green agenda.

Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation addresses the importance of green technology and sustainability for technology, enterprise, and academic innovation in energy management, renewable energy, and carbon reduction strategies. This book acts as the bridge for practitioners, academia, businesses, industrialists, governmental executives, and students seeking research in this emerging area.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies (AEEGT) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Effect of Web 2.0 Usage in E-Service Quality in Hospitality (pages 1-13)

Berislav Andrlic, Ezendu Ariwa

This chapter explores the usage of Web 2.0 technologies in determining the level of quality of Websites in the Croatian hotel industry. Namely, in order to determine the level of quality, it is necessary to identify the...

Chapter 2

Forecasting the Trends in Cloud Computing and its Impact on Future IT Business (pages 14-32)

Ebin Deni Raj, L. D. Dhinesh Babu, EzenduAriwa, M. Nirmala, P. Venkata Krishna

Cloud computing has become the cutting-edge technology for information technology processing and high-end computational tasks. Cloud has started playing its part in almost all business processes. Big data in cloud has become the...

Chapter 3

Teaching Accounting and Management through Business Simulation: A Case Study (pages 33-47)

Paulino L. Silva, J. Freitas Santos, Isabel Vieira

Everyday accounting and management teachers face the challenge of creating learning environments that motivate students. This chapter describes the Business Simulation (BS) experience that has taken place at the Polytechnic Institute...

Chapter 4

Microfinance Banks and their Impact on Small and Medium Scale Industries for Economic Growth (pages 48-64)

Mustapha Shitu Suleiman

The contribution of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) has been recognized as the main sustenance of an economy because of their capacity in enhancing economic growth and development. SMEs have been lacking access to...

Chapter 5

Sustainable Shipping to Meet the Needs of Small Island Developing States (pages 65-86)

Jennifer Teeter

The main objective of the current global shipping system is based on the container ship model emphasizing speed and efficiency. While enabling convenience for those with access to this hub-and-spoke system, this model is effectively...

Chapter 6

The Role of Multinational Corporations in Community Development Initiatives in Cameroon (pages 87-101)

Kingsly Awang Ollong

Inadequate provision of infrastructural and social facilities by governments for citizens' use calls for intervention of corporate organizations and individuals to contribute/provide for other people via social obligation. By...

Chapter 7

Social Networking Technology: A Frontier of Communication for Development in Developing Countries (pages 102-117)

Simeon Ozuomba, Gloria A. Chukwudebe, Felix K. Opara, Michael C. Ndinechi

Participatory solutions with triple-win outcomes are the thrust of contemporary community development research and practices. However, active participation and collaboration of diverse stakeholders in collective processes like...

Chapter 8

Engendering Sustainable Development through the Adoption of Digital Publishing Innovations (pages 118-132)

Nkechi M. Christopher, Emmanuel C. Ifeduba

Access to information may have contributed to the yawning gap between Nigeria's wealth in human and material resources and the level of development recorded. Sustainable development can be engendered through the adoption of...

Chapter 9

Sustainable Energy and the Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana (pages 133-149)

Ruby Melody Agbola, Evans Sokro

The chronic shortage of petroleum fuels, especially gasoline and LPG, and the prolonged and indiscriminate power outages coupled with the recent increment in fuel prices appear to be taking their toll on Ghanaian businesses; hence...

Chapter 10

Sustainability in Higher Education: Social Responsibility or Social Reputation? (pages 150-162)

I. L. St John, A. D. Phippen, M. Hudson Smith

This chapter critically examines the relationship between HEIs and their communities and questions whether the main motivating factors and drivers behind the increasing importance that sustainability plays in their policy making are...

Chapter 11

Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: A Context-Driven Perspective (pages 163-178)

Wilson Ozuem, Geoff Lancaster

A great deal of interest regarding corporate social responsibility exists in both the business community and academic communities. Within the academic community, this interest has given rise to a number of studies of corporate social...

Chapter 12

Green Data Center (pages 179-199)

Bernardi Pranggono, Huaglory Tianfield

The presence of computing in our society is enormous, and the trend continues. While organizations around the world rely more and more indispensably on their data centers to protect their fast growing data and information, the energy...

Chapter 13

Corporate Strategy from the Bottom: Project Portfolio Management Can Help Clarifying Your Strategy (pages 200-217)

Luca Romano

This chapter demonstrates that the connection between strategy and actions is key for a company to gain a conscious strategic advantage from what done in day-to-day activities. This connection is not always clear and often the...

Chapter 14

The Contribution of Teleworking towards a Green Computing Environment (pages 218-232)

Iheanyi Chuku Egbuta, Brychan Thomas, Said Al-Hasan

The aims of the chapter are to consider the strategic green issues of teleworking in terms of the environment, transport, location, office space, and resource use for modern organisations and business sectors and to formulate a...

Chapter 15

Financial Sustainability of the Private-Public Partnership Projects: Legal Framework in the Republic of Croatia (pages 233-248)

Anton Devčić, Marko Šostar, Sanja Babić

The Private-Public Partnership (PPP) is still a new model of financing of public needs in Croatia. Namely, regardless of the attitude of the relevant decision maker on national and local levels that this has to be widely used model...

Chapter 16

Sustainable Production Planning Supporting Entrepreneurial Success and Environmental Friendliness (pages 249-264)

Markus Heck

This chapter proposes the use of modified algorithms for production planning that support both cost optimization as well as environmental friendliness. The key element is the implementation of non-linear cost functions based on...

Chapter 17

Simulation of Knowledge Intensive Processes (pages 265-275)

Grzegorz Majewski, Abel Usoro, Peiran Su

This chapter presents a literature review and theoretical investigation combining the areas of Business Process Simulation (BPS) and Knowledge Management (KM). In the beginning, it describes the concept of knowledge economy – the...

Chapter 18

Vertical Landscape Desıgn (pages 276-292)

Gökçen Firdevs Yücel

Vertical landscapes are areas of vegetation growing directly on the facade of a building or on separate structural systems; they are usually made up of modular units, vegetated mats, or trellises attached to structural walls or...

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