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This report presents the findings of the evaluation of the first three years of Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC)’s elder abuse service trials – a specialist elder abuse unit, Rights of Seniors in the East (ROSE), and a health justice partnership, Engaging and Living Safely and Autonomously (ELSA). ELSA and ROSE were funded by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department as part of the National Elder Abuse Service Trials, and have both since converted to ongoing programs. ELSA and ROSE provide an elder abuse response service in Melbourne’s East, using an integrated practice model of legal advice and casework, financial counselling and advocacy. ELSA and ROSE also provide secondary consultations and advice to health and welfare professionals and community education. ROSE operates in partnership with Oonah Belonging Place and ELSA is a health-justice partnership with Eastern Health. The evaluation conducted interviews and focus groups with 19 people who had used ELSA or ROSE, 18 ECLC staff, and 25 external stakeholders from services who had engaged with the service trials. The evaluation also drew on internal ELSA and ROSE service data and data from a range of external sources, including recently available data on the prevalence of elder abuse. Overall, nearly all clients valued the services they received highly, even in situations where the abuse was ongoing or issues unresolved. ELSA and ROSE have been shown to be very effective at addressing and responding to elder abuse in roughly half of cases. Where they were not able to resolve the abuse or other issues, this was due to system gaps, failures in the broader health and welfare systems, and/or clients not being able to take up advice due to the complexity of their experience. The key elements underpinning the success of ELSA and ROSE are the integrated interdisciplinary practice model, which provides a wide range of support options, and the partnerships with health and welfare services. The secondary consultation and community education elements of ELSA and ROSE were highly valued by external professional stakeholders. Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 restrictions, both programs have achieved their goals to the highest level possible in the circumstances. The program-level recommendations below largely relate to building on the success of the program or fine-tuning accessibility and service delivery. Where substantial program-level issues, such as inconsistent referrals, were identified, they were outside of the control of ECLC and resolution relies on working with partners who are also responding to COVID-19 restrictions and other challenges. The most substantial recommendations relate to systemic barriers, particularly failures in other health and welfare systems. The evaluation findings clearly support the adaptation of the ELSA and ROSE models to other geographical locations and their continuation and expansion within the eastern Melbourne region. Other specialist elder abuse services, including prevention, early intervention, mediation and family therapy, are also needed, but ELSA and ROSE provide an excellent model for future service expansion.

The growing plastic electronics industry constitutes an important arena for addressing sustainability challenges. This study integrates literature related to eco-innovations and ecocentric business strategies to investigate its ability to adopt a sustainable development strategy on the basis of ecological sustainability. An exploratory qualitative study in the U.K. market reveals the need for both technological-push and market-pull factors to guide technological development. Awareness of sustainable development and the potential to support it are high, but actors in this sector do not prioritize these concerns. Efforts to increase commitment to sustainable development must address three distinctive groups: innovative developers, supplier/manufacturers, and industry facilitators. Articulating the importance of sustainable development might create incentives and generate market pull. The industry also has potential to support sustainable development, which then can support industry development. This article thus offers theoretical insights for ecocentric eco-innovations, ecocentric business strategy, and ecocentric visionary leadership, along with managerial, industry, and policy implications.

This qualitative study investigates whether the views of managers need to be congruent with the corporate sustainability (CS) logics—either integrative or instrumental—of their employing organization. We assessed the CS performance of 25 organizations within the Australian forestry and wood products industry and analyzed the CS orientations of 32 senior managers within these companies to explore whether their individual CS views were consistent with organizational CS logics. The findings indicate that, in general, better performing organizations are led by managers that hold the integrative view, whereas poorer performing organizations are more likely to have managers with an instrumental view of CS. Nonetheless, there were noteworthy exceptions to this conclusion. The findings indicate that, under certain industry conditions, managers who hold an instrumental view may be able to generate ecological and social organizational outcomes that are at least equal to those produced by integrative managers.

This conceptual article examines the relationship between marketing and sustainability through the dual lenses of anthropocentric and ecocentric epistemology. Using the current anthropocentric epistemology and its associated dominant social paradigm, corporate ecological sustainability in commercial practice and business school research and teaching is difficult to achieve. However, adopting an ecocentric epistemology enables the development of an alternative business and marketing approach that places equal importance on nature, the planet, and ecological sustainability as the source of human and other species' well-being, as well as the source of all products and services. This article examines ecocentric, transformational business, and marketing strategies epistemologically, conceptually and practically and thereby proposes six ecocentric, transformational, strategic marketing universal premises as part of a vision of and solution to current global un-sustainability. Finally, this article outlines several opportunities for management practice and further research.