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1. A framework to measure corporate sustainability performance: A strong sustainability-based view of firm

Author:
Nikolaou, Ioannis E.; Tsalis, Thomas A.; Evangelinos, Konstantinos I.
Source:
Sustainable Production and Consumption 2019 v.18 pp. 1-18
ISSN:
2352-5509
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; capital; carrying capacity;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper proposes a framework to measure corporate sustainability performance by designing a composite sustainability index. Two core concepts form the basis of the proposed corporate sustainability index: (a) the triple-bottom-line approach and (b) the principles of strong sustainability. More specifically, the proposed index simultaneously combines the economic, environmental and social compon ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.spc.2018.10.004

2. Green growth or degrowth? Assessing the normative justifications for environmental sustainability and economic growth through critical social theory

Author:
Sandberg, Maria; Klockars, Kristian; Wilén, Kristoffer
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.206 pp. 133-141
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; economic development; humans;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Scientists agree that changes in the organization of human society and economy are needed to stop the degradation of the natural environment. The most commonly proposed solution, green growth, has been increasingly criticized, but the offered alternative of degrowth has remained a marginal undertaking in academia and in practice. This article further develops the argument for degrowth. The article ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.175

3. Synergies of four emerging technologies for accelerated adoption of electric vehicles: Shared mobility, wireless charging, vehicle-to-grid, and vehicle automation

Author:
Taiebat, Morteza; Xu, Ming
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.230 pp. 794-797
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; automation; electric vehicles; transportation;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... This technical note discusses the synergetic attributes of four emerging technologies that have significant potentials to enhance smart and sustainable urban mobility, and ultimately improve urban sustainability. Shared mobility, wireless charging, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration, and vehicle automation have complementary features that rectify the practical barriers and implementation restrictio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.142

4. How innovative knowledge assets and firm transparency affect sustainability-friendly practices

Author:
Wu, Weiwei; Liu, Yexin; Zhang, Qi; Yu, Bo
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.229 pp. 32-43
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; assets; environmental degradation; stakeholders;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Global environmental problems have arisen since some firms pursue fast growth at the expense of massive resource consumption and environmental degradation. Under such conditions, stakeholders increasingly require firms to implement sustainability-friendly practices. This paper explored whether innovative knowledge assets and firm transparency promoted sustainability-friendly practices and further ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.007

5. Identifying change agent types and its implications for corporate sustainability integration based on worldviews and contextual factors

Author:
van den Berg, Jennifer; Zijp, Michiel C.; Vermeulen, Walter J.V.; Witjes, Sjors
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.229 pp. 1125-1138
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; business enterprises; case studies; models;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Change agents for Corporate Sustainability (CS) play an important role for companies when integrating CS into their business activities. While change agents can be differentiated by their worldviews, little is known about the contextual factors influencing their success in supporting CS integration. By proposing and illustrating an analytical model based on contextual factors of CS integration and ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.272

6. Environmentally friendly disposition decisions for end-of-life electrical and electronic products: The case of computer remanufacture

Author:
Farahani, Sajjad; Otieno, Wilkistar; Barah, Masoud
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.224 pp. 25-39
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; computers; operating costs; supply chain;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Increasing concerns about environmental sustainability strategies, take-back laws and natural resource limitation has highlighted the impact of disposing end-of-life (EOL) electrical and electronic products. To cope with this challenge, manufacturers have integrated reverse logistics into their supply chain or chosen to outsource product recovery activities to third parties. This research studies ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.182

7. Organisational support is not always enough to encourage employee environmental performance. The moderating role of exchange ideology

Author:
Paillé, Pascal; Meija-Morelos, Jorge H.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.220 pp. 1061-1070
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; environmental performance; job satisfaction; prediction;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Research on environmental sustainability recurrently reports that when employees feel supported by their employer, they are prone to engaging extra efforts towards behaving in an eco-friendly manner and helping their organisation succeed. Following social exchange theory, which posits that partners are motivated by developing and maintaining mutual beneficial exchanges over time, the expected effe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.192

8. Precision viticulture and advanced analytics. A short review

Author:
Santesteban, Luis G.
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.279 pp. 58-62
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; grapes; growers; vineyards; viticulture;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Precision viticulture (PV) is a relatively new discipline, whose development started in the 1990s. PV aims at adjusting vineyard management to the spatial variability that naturally appears in the field in order to increase its economic and environmental sustainability. Despite the rapid growth of PV in the last two decades, there is little PV research taking advantage of the great potential advan ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.11.140

9. Assessment of corporate culture in sustainability performance using a hierarchical framework and interdependence relations

Author:
Islam, Md Shamimul; Tseng, Ming-Lang; Karia, Noorliza
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.217 pp. 676-690
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; decision making; social responsibility;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... There is a gap in the extant literature on what corporate cultural attributes drives toward corporate sustainability performance. This study investigates corporate culture attributes that are conducive for sustainability and forms these attributes as a measurement tool for assessing corporate sustainability performance using linguistic preferences. Most of the prior assessment frameworks use compo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.259

10. Volunteered information on nature-based solutions — Dredging for data on deculverting

Author:
Wild, T.C.; Dempsey, N.; Broadhead, A.T.
Source:
Urban forestry & urban greening 2019 v.40 pp. 254-263
ISSN:
1618-8667
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; Internet; dredging; land use; stakeholders;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Much has been written about the potential contribution of citizen-science approaches to further urban environmental sustainability, and associated interventions such as nature-based solutions (NBS). Engagements between researchers and stakeholders relying on bottom-up information provision, for instance community mapping, are often purported to play a vital role in developing shared knowledge, ach ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ufug.2018.08.019

11. Assessing environmental sustainability of ornamental plant production: a nursery level approach in Pistoia District, Italy

Author:
Lazzerini, Giulio; Merante, Paolo; Lucchetti, Stefano; Nicese, Francesco Paolo
Source:
Agroecology and sustainable food systems 2018 v.42 no.8 pp. 911-932
ISSN:
2168-3573
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; ornamental plants; Italy;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Ornamental plant production exerts considerable impacts on the surrounding environment. To assess the environmental sustainability within this sector, a set of impact indicators, which refer to specific management issues in environmental terms, was selected. By comparing the indicators with sustainable thresholds, we assessed the environmental sustainability of a pool of nurseries growing plants i ...
DOI:
10.1080/21683565.2018.1466755

12. An axiomatic approach to decoupling indicators for green growth

Author:
Casadio Tarabusi, Enrico; Guarini, Giulio
Source:
Ecological indicators 2018 v.84 pp. 515-524
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; economic development; emissions;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... The concept of decoupling was introduced to measure and analyze the controversial trade-off between economic development and environmental sustainability; in particular, several empirical studies concern the construction and use of decoupling indicators. We elaborate on a descriptive comparison by Conte Grand (2016) of the three main ones, respectively DO by OECD (2002), Dϵ by Tapio (2005), and Dt ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.061

13. Examining the relationship between corporate social responsibility, performance, employees’ pro-environmental behavior at work with green practices as mediator

Author:
Suganthi, L.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.232 pp. 739-750
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; corporate social responsibility; human resources; working conditions; India;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in an organization is identified as a strategic tool for achieving sustainable performance. The objective of this research was to examine the conceptual framework that relates adoption of CSR initiatives, green practices both product and process related practices and the effect of these practices on performance and employees' pro-envi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.295

14. How to make strategic planning for corporate sustainability?

Author:
Teixeira, Grazielle Fatima Gomes; Canciglieri Junior, Osiris
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.230 pp. 1421-1431
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; business enterprises; business management; planning; product development; teams;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sustainability issues have been force companies to change how they think about their business models if they want to keep a competitive advantage. However, despite the diversity of tools for sustainable production, the integration of its concept has not yet reached a significant number of companies around the world. The reason for this is the need of more knowledge about sustainability integration ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.063

15. Consumers’ intentions to purchase smart home objects: Do environmental issues matter?

Author:
Schill, Marie; Godefroit-Winkel, Delphine; Diallo, Mbaye Fall; Barbarossa, Camilla
Source:
Ecological economics 2019 v.161 pp. 176-185
ISSN:
0921-8009
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; models; motivation; structural equation modeling; willingness to pay;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The literature that investigates consumers' motivations to adopt smart home objects has focused on the ego-centric, utilitarian, and functional benefits that smart home objects may provide to consumers. Although smart home objects have also been acknowledged to promote environmental sustainability, investigation of the influence of altruistic and ecological motivational variables on consumers' wil ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.03.028

16. Fractured state of decisions on sustainability: An assessment

Author:
Sikdar, Subhas K.
Source:
Sustainable Production and Consumption 2019 v.19 pp. 231-237
ISSN:
2352-5509
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; decision support systems; multi-criteria decision making;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... As it is impossible to define or characterize sustainability in the absolute, the pursuit of relative improvement of a properly identified system is the desirable approach for seeking sustainability. One would, however, need a set of proper indicators to measure this relative improvement. Generally, three domains of sustainability, i.e. environmental, economic, and societal are used to identify in ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.spc.2019.04.004

17. Green supply chain management in construction: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Author:
Badi, Sulafa; Murtagh, Niamh
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.223 pp. 312-322
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; construction industry; environmental impact; stakeholders; supply chain;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The construction industry is responsible for significant environmental impact. Mounting ecological and societal concerns are driving construction to ‘go green’. Green supply chain management offers the potential of a systemic approach to facilitate transformation of the sector. Research on green supply chain management in construction has been growing in recent times but to date has not been syste ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.132

18. The limits of the business case for sustainability: Don’t count on ‘Creating Shared Value’ to extinguish corporate destruction

Author:
de los Reyes, Gastón; Scholz, Markus
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.221 pp. 785-794
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; automobiles; resource allocation; technology; transportation industry; Germany;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Creating Shared Value (CSV) is arguably the leading approach for articulating the business case for corporate sustainability. This article examines the potential of CSV to generate the transformative innovation that the cleaner production literature takes for granted as a core component of corporate sustainability in the future. The article's major contribution is to make a systematic case for ske ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.187

19. Sharing economy–based service triads: Towards an integrated framework and a research agenda

Author:
Li, Dun; Liu, Guoquan; Jia, Fu; Sun, Hui
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.218 pp. 1031-1044
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; financial economics; models; social capital; supply chain;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sharing economy has gained momentum in recent years. In this paper, a concept and a synthesised conceptual framework are developed for Sharing Economy-based Service Triad (SEST). Service triads have increasingly become an interesting topic in supply chain management literature. The study adopts a systematic literature review method carrying out content analysis of 100 peer-reviewed journal article ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.019

20. What matters most to firm-level environmentally sustainable practices: Firm–specific or country–level factors?

Author:
Banerjee, Rajabrata; Gupta, Kartick; McIver, Ron
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.218 pp. 225-240
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
environmental sustainability,   etc   ; infrastructure; issues and policy; models; telecommunications;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper identifies the relative contribution of firm-specific versus country-level factors in modelling individual firm-level environmentally sustainable practices. The study considers firm-level data for 38 countries to include high-income, medium-income, and low-income economies in the period 2002–2013. We find that firm characteristics dominate country-level factors in explaining variation i ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.008