Pub Date : 2009-12-21DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.030512
Clara Ceppa
At present we are witnessing the intensive exploitation of natural resources but in the meantime we are producing more waste. Hence we should not expect the Earth to produce more but we should do more with what the Earth produces, and adopt a sustainable waste management. Therefore we must turn to Nature, where there is no waste and even surpluses are metabolised by the system itself. If these conditions are transferred to the world of production it's possible that output (waste) of a productive process is used as input (resource) for another one; waste enriched with new values becomes a resource. The research, in collaboration with Neosidea Group, is about the proposal of an instrument for analysis that would allow the configuration and realisation of networks of connections among different companies in geographic proximity, to achieve zero emission by implementing a sustainable management of their wastes.
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Pub Date : 2009-12-21DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.030515
Neena Sinha, N. K. Kakkar, Vikas Gupta
'Creativity and innovation' is not a new phenomenon. The evolution of human kind itself has been a journey of path-breaking innovation. Since the time the man created fire and the time man repeated the big-bang theory in a reactor to understand the evolution of the human kind – the history of the world has been marked by zillions of such life transforming innovations. Such innovations have changed the working of the contemporary corporate world. A new class of companies with great product line-up and continuous drive for innovation and creativity is emerging. These companies made it clear to their counterparts that it is not easy to be in the business. One has to learn the tricks of the game and has to choose new innovative moves to be in the game.
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Pub Date : 2009-12-21DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.030511
R. Griffin, George M. Puia
Despite an unquestioned worldwide green movement, business progress toward environmental sustainability has been relatively slow. The relative speed of greening may result from a lack of a dominant design or set of agreed upon standards. Some scholars argue that in uncertain technology markets, industry needs government initiatives such as the Kyoto protocol to accelerate its development. Governments failed to ratify quickly the treaty, weakening its effectiveness. This research presents that environmental treaty ratification takes place in a complex environment of cultural, political, and economic forces. This makes environmental sustainability more complex and suggests that markets rather than governments will be the driving force in sustainability standards.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026284
J. Galbreath
Some pundits have gone as far as to suggest that sustainability represents a shift equal in magnitude to the industrial revolution. While perhaps an audacious claim, sustainability nonetheless is capturing the attention of business firms, governments and consumers. Consumers, for example, place the highest burden on business to address sustainability. Surprisingly, however, many executives appear to be unclear as to what their long-term strategy should be, given sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to add to the strategy-sustainability discussion and explain a conceptual framework that addresses the focal topic. The framework is not restricted to a single dimension of sustainability, such as the natural environment, or to a single sector, like the manufacturing sector. Second, the framework contains five key dimensions and focuses explicitly on strategy making, grounded in sound theory. Lastly, to address practicality, a case study of the company, Whole Foods Market, is presented to elaborate on the framework.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026286
R. Crandall
Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies are Doing Well by Doing Good, by Chris Laszlo. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2008. 208pp. ISBN: 978-1-906093-06-8
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026285
James K. C. Chen, G. Tzeng
Effective allocation of enterprise resources through strategic alliances is a critical sustainability issue in supply chain systems. This study uses the De Novo programming approach as a strategic alliance alternative to achieve optimal resource allocation in supply chain systems. An empirical study demonstrates trade-offs in resource allocation, compromise solution and De Novo programming with multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). This work develops an efficient resource planning model for best optimal resource allocation results in an enterprise resource portfolio. The resources optimise trade-offs with the De Novo programming approach.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026281
L. Ingraham, J. Usher
How should firms respond strategically when their whole industry is negatively screened by Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds due to the nature of its products (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, weapons) or its processes (e.g., biotechnology, nuclear power, mining, forestry)? We argue that an industry's exclusion from SRI funds due to negative screening should provide an incentive for firms to strategically manage the social responsibility aspects of their industry. Moreover, due to problems associated with free riding, we believe this incentive will likely result in the formation of multiple firm, intra-industry collaborative alliances engaged in social action and legitimation on behalf of the industry, rather than single firm efforts. We explore this argument by searching for evidence of such alliances within a sample of SRI negatively screened industries.
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026282
Eva Collins, K. Kearins, Helen Tregidga
By August 2007, Deborah Cairns and Fran Reilly had been in business just a year and their alternative, family-directed funeral business had already won a regional sustainable business award. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, State of Grace offered clients socially and environmentally friendly alternatives including involving families where possible in keeping the deceased at home without embalming, and the use of natural products including eco-caskets. Deborah and Fran appreciated there were plenty of challenges in providing more socially responsible, natural alternatives to traditional funerals and current modes of burial and cremation. Now their fledgling business is gaining momentum, the two women were trying to find the balance between how much and how fast to grow the business, and at the same time meet their family commitments and stay true to their sustainability values. There is an underlying issue surrounding their prioritisation of whom and what needed sustaining most.
到2007年8月，黛博拉•凯恩斯(Deborah Cairns)和弗兰•赖利(Fran Reilly)开业才一年，他们的另一种家庭式殡葬业务已经获得了地区可持续发展企业奖。总部位于新西兰奥克兰的State of Grace为客户提供社会和环境友好的替代方案，包括尽可能让家人将死者留在家中而不进行防腐处理，以及使用包括生态棺材在内的天然产品。德博拉和弗兰认识到，在提供对社会更负责任、更自然的替代传统葬礼和目前的土葬和火葬方式方面存在许多挑战。如今，她们刚刚起步的企业正获得动力，两位女士试图在企业增长的幅度和速度之间找到平衡，同时满足她们对家庭的承诺，并忠于她们的可持续性价值观。有一个潜在的问题围绕着他们对谁和什么最需要维持的优先次序。
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Pub Date : 2009-06-08DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.026283
M. Valente
With the growing prevalence of nonmarket forces in the private sector, this manuscript sheds light on the different types of response strategies and their association with existing strategic management processes. Employing an inductive, case-based study of 30 firms operating in developing country contexts, this manuscript presents a typology of firm strategic response to nonmarket forces based on the degree to which market and nonmarket strategies intersect in the strategy formulation and strategy implementation processes. Four approaches are presented each accompanied by important and unique challenges along with guidance on how to overcome them.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-28DOI: 10.1504/IJSSM.2009.022829
R. Maysami, Lei Ya-lin, Zhang A. Long
Environmental and resource management have often been at odds with industrialisation and rapid economic growth and this is apparent when reviewing the cases of growing economies of China and India. This article reviews the literature and concludes that not only promoting effective natural resource management contributes to price stability, availability of products and long-term employment, but also that it is socially desirable in terms of poverty reduction and reducing the burden on public health systems. The article further proposes that a key step in alleviating the clash between the national desire to grow and its potential adverse effects on the environment and natural resources is the enhancement of academic research on sustainable resource and environmental management among the intellectual community. Accordingly, we have investigated the current research trends to assess whether the academic institutions are on the right research track.
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