Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked about innovations of the present. There seems to be a general assumption that AI and technology of various forms can be used to achieve sustainability, but there is less discussion about how this can happen and whether there are both positives and negatives to technology and its use.
This edited collection builds on the ethical questions reminiscent of those raised by early fiction writing in relation to robotics, and AI’s position within human endeavour. The chapters recognise the dangers as well as the applications which are appropriate and helpful.
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.
This edited collection builds on the ethical questions reminiscent of those raised by early fiction writing in relation to robotics, and AI’s position within human endeavour. The chapters recognise the dangers as well as the applications which are appropriate and helpful.
Part
1. Technology and sustainability
Chapter
1. Sustainable technologies for road maintenance and rehabilitation;
Marius Gabriel Petrescu, Maria Tnase, and Teodor Dumitru
Chapter
2. B2B Marketing Rational Decision Using Big Data and AI Technology;
Aysha A-Zayani and Muneer Al Mubarak
Chapter
3. Strategic Foresight and Business Analytics: A Systematic
Exploration of Mediated Impacts on Organizational Resilience; Hiba AlSaidi
and David Crowther
Chapter
4. Construction 4.0 Technologies: Uses and Challenges; Noor Al
Mawlani and Muneer Al Mubarak
Part
2. Environmental issues and technology
Chapter
5. Green Growth Strategies: Exploring the Role of Environmental
Taxation in Promoting Sustainable Development of Heavily Polluting
Enterprises; Ningyu Zhai and Scarlett Ruopiao Zhang
Chapter
6. Technological Sustainability of Supply Chain Management in Food
and Beverage Sector; Zaleekha Aman and Muneer Al Mubarak
Chapter
7. The history and future of climate change research will novel
technologies fall victim to denialism and conspiracy?; Mirela Panait, Rzvan
Ionescu, Iza Gigauri, and Lukman Raimi
Chapter
8. Internet of Things in Water Distribution Systems; Ahmed Ali
Alkuwaiti and Muneer Al Mubarak
Part
3. Social challenges from technology
Chapter
9. Female Entrepreneurship Facing Artificial Intelligence in the
European Union Countries; Aleksandra Gawe
Chapter
10. Understanding the location of women in science through feminist
lens; Astha Jaiswal and Dinesh Kumar
Chapter
11. The Interplay of ICT and Environment in Small Island States;
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Sheereen Fauzel, Nandikesh Juglal, and Bibi
Nabeeha Jaunoo
Chapter
12. Two Facets of AI-Driven Applications for Sustainable Learning and
Development: A Systematic Review of Tech-Entrepreneurial Benefits and Threats
to Creative Learning; Lukman Raimi, Nurudeen Babatunde Bamiro, and Syamimi
Ariff Lim
David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at several universities including Bedfordshire university, UK, who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.
Shahla Seifi is an engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She now researches, writes, organises SRRNet activities (SRRNet.org) and runs her own consultancy.
