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This paper discusses two opposing narratives of digitalization. Both these narratives are found in existing literature, and the paper understands them as the utopic and dystopic narratives of digitalization. The former expresses unbridled enthusiasm about the bright side of digitalization, while the latter is predominantly pessimistic, and primarily focuses on the undesirable aspects of digitalization. Observing that scholars tend to subscribe to either one or the other narrative, this paper proposes a more middle ground where these competing narratives can be balanced to usher in a better digital future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Assessing quality of collaboration strengthens the TDR process and outcomes. • Methods used in TDR should enhance the enthusiasm of societal stakeholders to actively engage in the collaboration. • Satisfying societal stakeholders' needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness is critical. • Active engagement increases the ability of societal stakeholders to address sustainability challenges and to enact change. • Fostering intrinsic motivation for engagement broadens societal impacts. Transdisciplinary sustainability research (TDR) is characterised by methodologies that support a rich and direct interaction between academics and other societal stakeholders. However, it is not to be taken for granted that societal stakeholders are interested in collaboration, or that researchers have the skills to put participative methods into action. While there are several frameworks available to evaluate transdisciplinary research, the quality of participants' engagement is often neglected during evaluations. The aim of this paper is to empirically assess the intrinsic motivation of participating societal stakeholders to engage in TDR by pairing Self-Determination Theory with Poggi's conceptual analysis of enthusiasm. We argue that the quality of collaboration between academic and other societal stakeholders is reflected by the latter's enthusiasm to participate, and that this supports the co-creation of outputs that societal stakeholders can put into practice. Two smallholder dairy farmer groups in Nakuru County, Kenya, reflected on their engagement in a collaborative learning process (CLP) that started in 2013. The goal of the collaboration was to co-develop contextualized innovations. We found that giving more voice and increasing representation and power of farmers in the research process sparked their enthusiasm, while a sense of progress and success sustained it. The strengthened sense of autonomy, competence and relatedness associated with intrinsic motivation helped participants invest in co-creating research outputs that have direct effects on their production systems. Especially for agricultural research for development spanning between Global North and Global South contexts, sensitivity to encouraging participants' intrinsic motivation can contribute towards decolonizing research methodologies and shifting more power towards the societal stakeholders that these projects are meant to serve. We conclude that assessing participants' intrinsic motivation and enthusiasm helps to determine the quality of collaboration. A possible implication could also be the differentiation between methodological approaches employed in TDR that deeply engage societal stakeholders for knowledge integration and co-production, and those that do so only at a superficial level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Factors promoting satisfaction and engagement with waste sorting were investigated. An extended theoretical model was established by integrating the theories of consumer satisfaction and customer engagement, rather than customer loyalty. Full replies to 672 valid questionnaires were obtained from respondents in 31 Chinese provinces. This paper explored how the perceived value of waste sorting, sorting facilities, income, age, and education affect waste sorting satisfaction. This paper also analyzed the effect of satisfaction on engagement in terms of enthusiasm, social interaction, and active participation by region and gender using multiple-group structural equation modeling (SEM). The results revealed perceived value of sorting and good sorting facilities can enhance satisfaction. Satisfaction can enhance enthusiasm, social interaction, and active participation. Education level, income and age would influence satisfaction and three dimensions of engagement: enthusiasm, social interaction and active participation. Waste sorting satisfaction affected enthusiasm, social interaction, active participation to a greater extent in eastern versus middle and western regions of China. It is important to provide market-incentives, such as green points reward, deposit refund, to promote household waste sorting. Image 1 • Education has the highest effect on enthusiasm (coefficient of 0.132) for males. • Facility has the highest positive impact on satisfaction for both genders. • Satisfaction positively impacts enthusiasm, social interaction and participation. • Income can enhance engagement of waste sorting for both genders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Forming the dynamic alliance of development projects in real estate industry is an effective scheme of answering changeful environment pressure. The paper defines the concept and characteristics of dynamic alliance of development projects of real estate based on the former researches, analyses the forming motive from the three angles of resource dependence, transaction cost and core competency, build the profits allocation model of dynamic alliance about development projects of real estate based on the method of Shapley, which can arouse the enthusiasm of real estate developer to form dynamic alliance and be benefit to the stable development of dynamic alliance. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]