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Promoting sustainable global innovative smart governance through the 5th wave theory, via Fuzzy AHP for future SMEs (SME 5.0/hybrid SMEs)
AIMS Geosciences 2023, 9(1): 123-152
Published: 15 March 2023
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With the advancement of technology and Smartening, governments have realized that the most essential feature of business models is the emphasis on knowledge and innovation, and that governance needs innovation to be sustainable. Modern organizations today are looking for new solutions to create public value through innovative, effective, human-service-based services and decision-making using the potential of modern and digital technologies to provide the tools needed for organizational development and sustainability. The present study is of a practical type and specifically based on structural equation modeling. Data collection tools are standard questionnaires whose validity was assessed using the content validity method and their reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha test. The statistical population of the research included some government organizations of Iran and the sample size was calculated using G*power software and the number of people was estimated to be 284. Findings showed that with 95% confidence, the variables of 7 Pillars Sustainability (7PS) and innovation culture have a positive and significant effect on organizational sustainability. while indirect path analysis reveals the mediating role of innovation culture in the impact of the 7PS on organizational sustainability. Also, FUZZY AHP was used to determine the weight and importance coefficient of the criteria of the 7PS Model, and the culture with the highest score was given the first priority.

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A literary analysis of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (2009) towards sustainable development through i-Sustainability Plus theory
AIMS Geosciences 2022, 8(4): 627-644
Published: 15 December 2022
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Through a close reading of William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, this paper examines the importance of literature as a medium of intercultural communication to address the theme of sustainable development. It aims to discern deeper meanings in the narrative by analyzing significant African thematic concerns, such as poverty, lack of education, environmental degradation, and hunger affecting underdeveloped societies such as Malawi. Drawing on Doost Mohammadian's i-Sustainability Plus Theory (2010), the research also explores how the story engages with and contributes to the sustainability debate. It attests to the importance of the seven pillars of sustainability development goals presented in the literary text in creating a more sustainable society, specifically Malawi. Hence, examining William's autobiography helps normalize the conversation about sustainability in literature and educates readers about the educational, economic, ecological, social, technical, cultural, and political challenges and hardships Malawi faces and ways to overcome them. In addition, this research intends to portray William's initiative idea as a possible SME (small and medium-sized enterprise), minor, independent initiatives which employ fewer than a given number of employees. According to Doost Mohammadian, SMEs are critical to economic, environmental, and social sustainability development, thus sustainable and successful SMEs, such as William's small innovativeness, with high productivity and efficiency can help develop inhabitable and sustainable living environments in developing societies such as Wimbe.

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