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Synchronising innovation in sustainability and cultural transformation within urban ecosystem

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 211-232 (22 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (Volume 46, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2025

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2025

ISSN

1746-6474

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 105018619222

Abstract

The social consciousness in performing rituals largely indicates the community orientation towards sustainability and congruence with the neurobehavioural (viz. memories, emotions, and transcendental values), behavioural economic, and cultural anthropology factors in transforming conventional rituals. This study analyses the changing behaviour of people adapting to sustainable rituals for deceased people and prospecting technology use to digitise the memories. The data has been collected in metropolitan area of Mexico City. Reviewing the ritual theory, theory of social change, and social cognitive theory, six hypotheses have been constructed with 21 variables. The results of this study analyse the changes in the behaviour of the individuals in the context of adoption of sustainable practices through the ease of use of technology. The use of digitisation of memories of the deceased and retrieval of the same through QR codes embedded in the urns has stimulated the lower stratum consumers to adapt sustainable ritual practices.