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1. Sustainability, Digital Transformation and Fintech: The New Challenges of the Banking Industry.

Author

Pérez, Andrea and Pérez, Andrea

Subjects
Economics, finance, business & management, AAOIFI, ARDL, CBDC, CSP-CFP relationship, CSR, CSRD index, ESG, European banks, European financial services, FinTech innovation, GDP, GRI, Hedonic value, IFRS adoption, Islamic Banking Industry of Pakistan, Johansen test of co-integration, Latin America, MoM(micro-operating mechanism), NPL, Nigeria, SDGs, SMEs, VECM, admiration, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), bank, bank risk, bank run, banking, banking industry, banking regulation, banking sustainability, barriers, blended ambidexterity, board composition, buy-now-pay-later, catering, central bank, central bank digital currency, commercial banks, communication, consumer behaviour, consumer loyalty, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD), cost of equity, counter-cyclical adjustment, cross-efficiency, customer satisfaction, data envelopment analysis, digital currency, digital financial inclusion, digital government, digital transformation, digitalisation, disclosure, discourse, dynamic provisioning, econometric model, economic sustainability, efficiency, emotional intelligence, employees' turnover intention, equal opportunity policy, evidence-based policy, exchange rate, exposition, financial inclusion, financial performance, fintech, gaussian copula regression, glass ceiling, hedonic service, illiquidity risk, inflation rate, innovation competencies, innovation process, innovation risk, innovative solution, insolvency risk, instrumental variable estimation, job burnout, knowledge management, lexical analysis, loan expansion, macroeconomic factors, macroprudential supervision, management, market power, mobile banking, mobile financial services (MFS), multi-attribute decision making, multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM), narrative, non-performing loans, nonfinancial information, nonfinancial reporting, nonperforming loans, ordinal variable, organizational ambidexterity, patent application, patents data, peer-to-peer lending, perceived organizational support, perceived risk, perception, performance evaluation, pharmacy network, product innovation, profitability, public administration, public sector, qualitative meta-synthesis (QMS), regulation, regulatory failure, regulatory sandbox, risk, risk-coping ability, salesperson selling behaviors, social media, social sustainability, sovereign debt distress, stimulus-response model, stochastic DEA, storytelling, structural equation modeling (SEM), sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), sustainability, sustainable access to cash, sustainable banking, sustainable development, sustainable finance, sustainable financial products, sustainable reporting, sustainable solutions, tail dependence, technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), the Vietnamese banking industry, transformation, trust, type by enterprise, unemployment rate, unit root, utilitarian service, utilitarian value, valuation, value in use approach, vulnerability to poverty, vulnerable rural areas, work-family conflict
Abstract

Summary: In the current competitive scenario, the banking industry must contend with multiple challenges tied to regulations, legacy systems, disruptive models/technologies, new competitors, and a restive customer base, while simultaneously pursuing new strategies for sustainable growth. Banking institutions that can address these emerging challenges and opportunities to effectively balance long-term goals with short-term performance pressures could be aptly rewarded. This book comprises a selection of papers addressing some of these relevant issues concerning the current challenges and opportunities for international banking institutions. Papers in this collection focus on the digital transformation of the banking industry and its effect on sustainability, the emergence of new competitors such as FinTech companies, the role of mobile banking in the industry, the connections between sustainability and financial performance, and other general sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) topics related to the banking industry. The book is a Special Issue of the MDPI journal Sustainability, which has been sponsored by the Santander Financial Institute (SANFI), a Spanish research and training institution created as a collaboration between Santander Bank and the University of Cantabria. SANFI works to identify, develop, support, and promote knowledge, study, talent, and innovation in the financial sector.

2. Sustainable Construction.

Author

Yepes, Víctor, García-Segur, Tatiana, and Yepes, Víctor

Subjects
Technology: general issues, CO2 emissions, Design for sustainability, FSC, Harbin-Dalian Passenger Dedicated Line (PDL), Life Cycle Assessment, ReCiPe, SDGs, Social Life Cycle Analysis, aggressive environment, albedo, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), apartment housing, automation robot, bio-flexi, bio-inspiration, bridges, burden, chloride corrosion, competitive advantage, construction, construction process, corporate sustainability, cracked RC material, durability, electrochemical test methods, environmental effects, exterior wall painting, fly ash, function, graphene nanoplatelets, high-speed railway (HSR), life cycle cost, life cycle thinking, life-cycle assessment, modern slavery, nitric acid, optimization, performance evaluation, piezo-resistivity, preventive measures, rebar corrosion, reinforced concrete, resource, rheological properties, self-sensing, structural health monitoring, sulphuric acid, supply networks, surface urban heat island, sustainability, sustainability assessment, sustainable business strategies, sustainable concrete, sustainable construction, sustainable development, ultra fine fly ash, unascertained measure, urban regeneration
Abstract

Summary: Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the "Sustainable Construction" Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.

3. Performance management in government : a comparative study of the UK and Korea

Author

Ko, Woong-Joe and Wilks, Stephen

Subjects
658.3128, Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Performance Indicator, Performance Evaluation, Public Service Agreements, Comprehensive Spending Review, New Public Management, Accountability, Target
Abstract

Performance management, which is a core element of the New Public Management (NPM), has maintained its significance both in academic and practical perspectives for many scholars and governments, although enthusiasm for the NPM has waned since the late 1990s. There have been debates on the universality of the NPM, and the divergence argument regards the practices and trajectories of specific reforms as being shaped by the different characteristics of politico-administrative and cultural systems. Through the comparative study of performance management based on the case studies in the UK and South Korea, this thesis demonstrates that the processes of a NPM-type reform can be similar in spite of differences of politico-administrative and cultural characteristics. It examines performance management systems in the two countries in terms of the speed and nature of reform, resistance to reform, use of performance information and importance as a control mechanism. The comparison is also useful for lesson-drawing for the improvement of current systems. This research has been conducted by undertaking a wide literature review, including journal articles and government papers, and by conducting semi-structured interviews. To undertake analysis and comparison of performance management systems, the thesis looks at the Public Service Agreements (PSAs) in the UK and the Government Performance Evaluation (GPE), Financial Performance Management System (FPMS) and Performance Agreements in Korea. Case studies have been carried out with the Department of Health in the UK and the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs in Korea. The PSA system has problems generated by excessive central control and lack of participation of professionals and front-line staff. In Korea all three performance management systems are based on evaluation. Departments used evaluation as a tool of exercising control, which resulted in duplication of evaluation and excessive bureaucracy. Focus on the process-oriented evaluation has undermined the value of the systems for improving public services. Whilst the two countries display differences in the fundamental approach to performance management, there are similarities in the detailed practices and trajectories in the operation of the systems. The reason for these similarities may be attributed to the strong leadership of top politicians in both countries.

Published
2008