Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022830
Bryan Stinchfield
As an increasing number of firms seek to become more environmentally responsible, they discover that their relationships with key stakeholders are subject to fundamental change. This changing power dynamic results in shifting resource dependencies, casting a shadow of realpolitik on an area typically characterised by cooperation, 'green-ness', and social responsibility. Using the resource dependence theory as a foundation, this article seeks to develop a framework explaining the changing power networks among firms attempting to increase their level of environmental responsibility. Emphasis is placed on the focal firm's suppliers and regulators, since they play key roles for the changing firm.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022832
R. Ratnayake, J. Liyanage
The current industrial demand is to be more 'green', whilst increasing pressure for formulating policies and strategies for sustainable asset performance. Asset integrity management issues conceived within oil and gas (O&G) sector in terms of the long-established paradigm seemingly is unsustainable. The conventional industrial paradigm of unlimited growth appears to be unsustainable as it requires unlimited capture from limited resource capacities and unwarranted environmental effects absorbing externalities. What O&G industry needs is an entirely new paradigm for the way it handles issues related to asset integrity. This article presents an approach that describes how asset integrity management and sustainability performance can be blended together at industrial plant level. The study is based on a project launched in Norway, which provides careful understanding to permit better integration of performance critical information into day-to-day operational decisions and institutionalisation of management practice based on sustainability concerns along a cross section of an organisation.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022827
P. Shrivastava
The global 'war on terror' is wreaking havoc on the natural environment and involving increasing number of organisations. This paper invites sustainability and strategic management studies scholars to explore the relations between terrorism and ecology. In several terrorism prone areas of the world, the disruption of ecological systems that support human populations is an important antecedent to the economic and social conditions that breed terrorism. By examining the ecological and economic patterns in Somalia and Afghanistan, this paper reveals ecological antecedents of terrorism. The author concludes that we can deal with terrorism more effectively and at a lower cost by going beyond the current narrow military response. We need to further study relations between ecology and terrorism and engage policies for ecologically sustainable development of terrorism prone regions.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022833
K. Law
The paper investigates the key factors affecting the sustainability development strategies adoption and implementation in non-government organisations. Research framework linking the key factors affecting company's adoption of sustainability development strategies, the willingness and the current situation of applying sustainable strategies is proposed. Results have suggested the significant correlation between motivating factors from the four key dimensions, the willingness of NGOs' adoption of sustainable development strategies, and the impacts on the practices of companies to integrate sustainability strategies in business operations. This paper focuses on a study undertaken among a number of non-government organisations in Hong Kong. The study reveals a significant influence from the management on the willingness of adoption and sustainable development performance. This further confirms the importance on promoting the sustainability development at the operational level, with top management to provide clear strategic direction and supportive resources and environment.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022834
Yiping Bai, G. C. O’Brien
Effective use of resources, energy efficiency, health and safety in the workforce and green gas emissions are important considerations for sustainability of the aluminium industry. Technological advances help to improve productivity, reduce costs, save resources, lower air pollution and reduce injury risk in the workforce and thus determine sustainability of the industry. This paper argues that cooperative research and development brings technological advances and improves sustainable performance in the industry. An analysis of 224 respondents from 22 firms in the Chinese aluminium industry identifies a significant correlation between cooperative research and development and sustainability in the sector. These results have implications for government, industry and managers.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022828
Sanjay Sharma
This article is a reply to the paper in this issue by Paul Shrivastava 'The ecological antecedents of terrorism'.
这篇文章是对本期Paul Shrivastava的论文《恐怖主义的生态前因后果》的回复。
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022831
G. Barbiroli
Sustainable development is neither easy nor quick to achieve because it is based on revolutionary paradigms. Therefore, in order to overcome the 'resistance' due to consolidated advantages and behaviours, suited and effective conditions and measures must be created at socio-economic level, so as to prompt and guide the development and diffusion of sustainable while economic solutions. In this study, some fundamental conditions are considered and discussed: indicators (such as upper or lower boundaries) of sustainability, price level for all natural resources, effective economic policy instruments, and technological pluralism. Setting indicators regarding all aspects of economic and social life has to be considered as the basic step to measure the results obtained while pursuing sustainable pathways, and, consequently, permit to consider sustainable or unsustainable the implemented solutions. Also the price level for all primary commodities is a fundamental condition and measure in this perspective, reflecting their 'limitedness'.
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Pub Date : 2008-05-06DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2008.018125
J. Parnell
Much of the management scholarship on the strategy performance relationship has focused primarily on the economic, short- and intermediate-term outcomes associated with an organisation's strategies. Recently, however, a largely disparate group of researchers has challenged the long-term viability of many such strategies, primarily from environmental and ecological points of view. Relatively few scholars have vigorously sought to bridge the gap between these ostensibly contradictory perspectives. This paper addresses this gap by defining and elaborating a subdiscipline within the management field ? Sustainable Strategic Management (SSM) ? concerned with the development and implementation of strategies that are sustainable from both market and environmental perspectives. It serves as a springboard for scholars who seek to pursue additional research in this arena.
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Pub Date : 2008-05-06DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2008.018126
John E. Spillan, Victor Norcetti, Rodrigo Saens, Arcadio A. Cerda
This paper describes Sustainable Strategic Management (SSM) activities and evaluates Chile's performance in attempting to manage its economy within the framework of SSM principles. It discusses the economic, environmental and social factors that have shaped the development of SSM policies in Chile. Although, Chile has enjoyed significant economic advances during the last three decades, the nation now faces a number of challenges as it attempts to sustain both rapid economic growth and its environmental and social stability. As such, Chileans have begun to consider the connection between market sustainability and environmental sustainability. This paper provides insight into the factors and elements that are important for policy- makers, managers and social scientists.
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Pub Date : 2008-05-06DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2008.018123
Shawn Carraher, M. Buckley, C. Carraher
This paper examines some of the major challenges in performing research on Sustainable Strategic Management (SSM) with an emphasis on accurately assessing the extent to which strategies actually result in true organisational change. The concepts of alpha, beta and gamma change are introduced. Whereas change is a scale recalibration that occurs when a respondent recalibrate the measurement scale over the course of time of a study. Gamma change is a concept redefinition that occurs when a respondent redefines or alters his or her understanding of the concept of interest over the course of a measurement period. All three categories of change should be considered when conducting SSM research.
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