“…Implementing innovations in different places might help the development process (Szopik-Depczyńska et al , 2018) and offers solutions to meet the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda (Calabrese et al , 2018). From the point of view of the performance indicators used in this research, the findings corroborate previous studies regarding the importance of sustainability indicators (Mazon et al , 2019) and models for assessing sustainability (Pereira Ribeiro et al , 2021a, 2021b) in universities (Guerra et al , 2018; Fuchs et al , 2020; Perdoná and Soares, 2021; Leal Filho et al , 2021a; Leal Filho et al , 2021b). Additionally, this study indicates that GAC not only directly and positively influences GSI, but it also indirectly affects GSI via the partial mediator of GDC.…”