... and promote an improved quality of life for the citizens through the utilization of technological advancements and the proper management of natural resources. Thus, the study has been carried out to recognize and rank the factors affecting the development of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach...

... regulation. Italy Work‐family policies Welfare community approach Workplace arrangements Mutual gains Strategic approach to work‐family issues Quality of life Social policy Employment Family life In recent decades, across western countries, dramatic transformations in population structure...

.... Although it is not clear why this should be the case it has been argued that it may reflect dissatisfaction with “imposed” working hours or arrangements, and/or feelings of greater employment insecurity (Sanséau and Smith, 2012). More recently, in the Third European Quality of Life Survey, on the question...

... or family external social relationships or the community factors that make relocation successful. Mining industry Relocation Quality of life Family life Women In our business we have to be ready to supply what the companies want when they want it. Contracts can, do, come up unexpectedly...

... Maternity leave Paternity leave Quality of life Job satisfaction Police In the past few years, parental leave for both mothers and fathers has fed countless debates in the wake of the European Community's efforts to change the existing maternity leave and to introduce various modifications...

...Maria Cristina Sousa Gomes; Maria Luís Rocha Pinto; Gabriela Gomes dos Santos Purpose With this reappraisal, the purpose of this paper is to present a reflexion on and discussion of the concept of quality of life (QL) with the intention of delimiting its meaning and application within the scope...

... (EU, 2007b). To model aggregate consumer confidence, we used the German consumer confidence index (CCI) from the EU (EU, 2007a). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Economic growth Income Economic theory Customer satisfaction Consumers Quality of life Enhancing...

...Edgar Krau The feeling of a low quality of life is not an inevitable aftermath of industrial progress, but the two phenomena may become linked in conditions of heavy competitive behaviour stemming from strong achievement orientation. Study of the relationship between quality of life and objective...