SUSTAINABILITY

2015-11-10 20:48:28   0  举报

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Sustainability是一种综合性的理念，旨在实现经济、社会和环境的平衡发展。它强调在满足当前需求的同时，不损害未来世代的生存和发展能力。在经济层面，可持续发展意味着推动绿色经济和循环经济的发展，减少资源浪费和环境污染。在社会层面，它关注公平正义、人权保障和社会包容性，努力消除贫困和不平等现象。在环境层面，可持续发展追求生态平衡，保护生物多样性，降低温室气体排放，应对气候变化。实现可持续发展需要全球合作和创新，包括政府、企业、社会组织和个人的共同努力。只有通过可持续的方式生活和发展，我们才能确保地球上的资源得以永续利用，为后代留下一个更美好的世界。

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Research Question 1: What are the processes of successful transformation to social enterprises?

Methodology: Content analysis of government's policy documents and media reports on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship

Institutional Theory:H1a: NGOs' willingness to transform is positively related to media coverage about sustainability of social enterprises H1b: NGOs' willingness to transform is positively related to government’s policy supporting development of social enterprises

Research Question 2: Has the sustainability of NGOs improved after the transformation?

Study 1: Driving forces for NGOs to engage in SE

Study 2: Process and outcomes of transformation

Methodology: 1) Review government's spending on nonprofit sector over past decades2) Surveys to NGOs to assess their financing models and willingness to transform to social enterprises

Methodology: Interviews with NGOs to explore key factors that contribute the successful transformation

Resource Dependency Theory:H2a: NGOs' willingness to transform is negatively related to government’s spending on nonprofit sectorH2b: NGOs' willingness to transform is negatively related to organizations’ dependency on financing sources

Methodology: Self-assessment questionnaires to transformed NGOs to assess sustainability before and after the transformationCompare sustainability between conventional form of NGOs and transformed NGOs