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The Impact of Managers and Network Interactions on the Integration of Circularity in Business Strategy 经营者与网络互动对企业战略循环整合的影响
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI: 10.1177/1086026621994635
M. Eikelenboom, G. de Jong
Integrating circularity in business strategy is difficult to achieve for companies as it requires impactful changes in core business processes. While research has focused on identifying key barriers, little is known about the organizational attributes that can assist businesses in integrating circularity in their strategies. The purpose of this study is to investigate the implications of organizational managers and network interactions for the integration of circularity in business strategy. Through using survey data from 627 SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) in the Netherlands, this study shows that managers who interpret circularity as an opportunity can have a positive direct and indirect effect on the integration of circularity in a company’s strategy. The results furthermore highlight the importance of circular network interactions for the integration of circularity in business strategy. This article contributes to recent calls for more empirical research into the integration of circularity and offers relevant insights for companies aiming to integrate circularity.
对于公司来说,将循环性整合到业务战略中是很难实现的,因为这需要对核心业务流程进行有影响力的更改。虽然研究的重点是识别关键障碍,但人们对能够帮助企业将循环性整合到战略中的组织属性知之甚少。本研究的目的是调查组织经理和网络互动对商业战略中循环性整合的影响。通过使用荷兰627家中小企业的调查数据,本研究表明,将循环性解释为机会的管理者可以对循环性融入公司战略产生积极的直接和间接影响。研究结果进一步强调了循环网络互动对商业战略中循环性整合的重要性。这篇文章为最近呼吁对循环性的整合进行更多的实证研究做出了贡献,并为旨在整合循环性的公司提供了相关的见解。
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引用次数: 18
Reformists, Decouplists, and Activists: A Typology of Ecocentric Management 改革派、解耦派和积极分子:生态中心管理的类型学
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/1086026621993204
M. Hernández, P. Muñoz
Ecocentric management has grown in interest in business sustainability research, driven by recent debates on sustainability-as-flourishing and novel nature-based business approaches. While relevant and promising, examination and explanations remain anchored in conventional dualistic thinking and piecemeal logics. In this article, we seek to understand what conditions or combination of conditions enable the formation of ecocentrism in business management. Drawing on deep ecology and ecocentric philosophy, we develop a conceptual framework for ecocentric management, comprising ecological sensing, envisioning, and enacting. Leveraging this framework and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, we map the responses of 160 small business owners and managers in Chile. Our analyses reveal three configurations of conditions, forming a typology of ecocentric management: Market Reformist, Legitimated Decouplist, and Self-Centered Activist. The article offers a new conceptual apparatus and systemic characterization of ecocentrism in business sustainability. It shows what matters and when for the formation of ecocentric thinking and decision-making in management.
以生态为中心的管理对商业可持续性研究越来越感兴趣,这是由于最近关于可持续性作为一种繁荣和新颖的基于自然的商业方法的辩论。尽管相关且有前景,但审查和解释仍以传统的二元思维和零碎逻辑为基础。在这篇文章中,我们试图了解是什么条件或条件的组合使企业管理中的生态中心主义得以形成。借鉴深层生态学和生态中心哲学,我们为生态中心管理制定了一个概念框架,包括生态感知、设想和实施。利用这一框架和模糊集定性比较分析,我们绘制了智利160家小企业主和经理的反应图。我们的分析揭示了三种条件配置,形成了以生态为中心的管理类型:市场改革者、合法的去重叠主义者和以自我为中心的活动家。本文为企业可持续发展中的生态中心主义提供了一个新的概念框架和系统表征。它展示了在管理中形成以生态为中心的思维和决策的重要性和时间。
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引用次数: 7
Leadership Forum on Organizations and Sustainability: Taking Stock, Looking Forward 组织与可持续发展领导论坛:回顾,展望
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/1086026621992147
Tobias Hahn, Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville, Thomas P. Lyon, M. Russo, Judith L Walls
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引用次数: 2
Why Do Firms Participate in Voluntary Environmental Programs? A Meta-Analysis of the Role of Institutions, Resources, and Program Stringency 企业为什么要参与自愿环境项目?制度、资源和程序严格性作用的元分析
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-06 DOI: 10.1177/1086026621990063
Pete Tashman, Svetlana Flankova, Marc van Essen, Valentina Marano
We meta-analyze research on why firms join voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) to assess the impact of program stringency, or the extent to which they have rigorous, enforceable standards on these decisions. Stringency creates trade-offs for firms by affecting programs’ effectiveness, legitimacy, and adoption costs. Most research considers singular programs and lacks cross program variation needed to analyze program stringency’s impact. Our meta-analysis addresses this by sampling 127 studies and 23 VEPs. We begin by identifying common institutional and resource-based drivers of participation in the literature, and then analyze how program stringency moderates their impacts. Our results suggest that strictly governed VEPs encourage participation among highly visible and profitable firms, and discourage it when informal institutional pressures are higher, and firms have prior experience with other VEPs or quality management standards. We demonstrate that VEP stringency has nuanced effects on firm participation based on the institutional and resource-based factors facing them.
我们对企业为什么加入自愿环境计划(VEP)的研究进行了元分析,以评估计划严格性的影响,或者他们对这些决策有严格、可执行的标准的程度。严格通过影响项目的有效性、合法性和采用成本,为公司创造了权衡。大多数研究都考虑单一程序,缺乏分析程序严格性影响所需的跨程序变化。我们的荟萃分析通过对127项研究和23项VEP进行抽样来解决这一问题。我们首先在文献中确定参与的共同制度和资源驱动因素,然后分析项目严格性如何调节其影响。我们的研究结果表明,严格管理的VEP鼓励高度知名和盈利的公司参与,而当非正式的制度压力更大,并且公司之前有其他VEP或质量管理标准的经验时,则不鼓励参与。我们证明,基于企业面临的制度和资源因素,VEP严格性对企业参与有着微妙的影响。
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引用次数: 10
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Experimental Evidence on the Contested Nature of Materiality in Sustainability Reporting Beholder眼中:可持续性报告中实质性的争议性的实验证据
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/1086026619875436
D. Reimsbach, Frank Schiemann, Rüdiger Hahn, Eric Schmiedchen
Materiality is an ambiguous concept in sustainability reporting where potential users are more heterogeneous than in financial reporting. Building on decision usefulness and dual process theory, we scrutinize in an experimental setting how two important stakeholder groups react to manipulations of the topic of nonfinancial information while controlling for differences in nonfinancial performance. We find that potential employees consider nonfinancial information as generally more material compared with capital market participants. Furthermore, for capital market participants, the nonfinancial topic of energy is more material than the topic of biodiversity, while for potential employees, both topics are equally material. Capital market participants seem to follow a more analytic decision-making process than potential employees. Capital market participants also adjust their decisions in combination with quantitative performance differences, and their risk assessment of a company mediates their decisions. Our findings show that materiality of nonfinancial information lies in the eye of the beholder.
在可持续性报告中,实质性是一个模糊的概念,潜在用户比财务报告中的用户更为异质。基于决策有用性和双过程理论,我们在实验环境中仔细研究了两个重要的利益相关者群体如何对非财务信息主题的操纵做出反应,同时控制非财务绩效的差异。我们发现,与资本市场参与者相比,潜在员工通常认为非财务信息更重要。此外,对于资本市场参与者来说,能源这一非金融主题比生物多样性主题更具实质性,而对于潜在员工来说,这两个主题都同样重要。资本市场参与者似乎比潜在员工遵循更具分析性的决策过程。资本市场参与者也会结合量化绩效差异调整他们的决策,他们对公司的风险评估会对他们的决策起到中介作用。我们的研究结果表明,非金融信息的重要性在于旁观者。
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引用次数: 31
Corporate Environmental Disclosure Practices in Different National Contexts: The Influence of Cultural Dimensions 不同国家背景下的企业环境披露实践:文化维度的影响
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/1086026619860263
M. Pucheta‐Martínez, Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez
The influence of different national contexts, including the effects of cultural environments, on corporate environmental disclosure practices has yet to be properly addressed in the literature. The purpose of this research is, therefore, to analyse how cultural factors affect the environmental disclosure practices of companies in different countries. This research is supported by the diversity of cultures across countries. Given that a cultural framework prompts different organisational actions and strategies, the question to be answered through this research is as follows: How do cultural aspects affect corporate environmental disclosure? Cultural factors are precisely those that can explain similarities and differences between stakeholders’ actions and preferences. The sample used in this research comprises companies in 28 countries and 9 economic sectors for the period 2004 to 2015. Our main findings show that companies operating in countries with individualist, masculine and indulgent cultures are less likely to disclose environmental information. Contrary to our predictions, cultures with a long-term orientation also discourage the reporting of environmental information, while uncertainty avoidance contexts tend to promote more environmental reporting.
不同的国家背景,包括文化环境的影响,对企业环境披露实践的影响,尚未在文献中得到适当的解决。因此,本研究的目的是分析文化因素如何影响不同国家公司的环境披露实践。这项研究得到了各国文化多样性的支持。鉴于文化框架促使不同的组织行动和战略,本研究需要回答的问题如下:文化方面如何影响企业环境披露?文化因素正是那些能够解释利益相关者的行为和偏好之间的相似性和差异性的因素。本研究中使用的样本包括2004年至2015年期间28个国家和9个经济部门的公司。我们的主要发现表明,在具有个人主义、男性化和放纵文化的国家运营的公司不太可能披露环境信息。与我们的预测相反,长期导向的文化也阻碍了环境信息的报告,而避免不确定性的环境往往会促进更多的环境报告。
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引用次数: 33
Communicating Sustainable Business Models to Consumers: A Translation Theory Perspective 向消费者传达可持续商业模式:翻译理论视角
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-16 DOI: 10.1177/1086026620953448
Viktorija Viciunaite
Firms can embed sustainability efforts in business model elements such as key resources, key activities, or key partners. To capitalize on their sustainability efforts, firms must present these efforts in a way that is meaningful to consumers that is—translate them. This study explores how sustainability efforts are translated to consumers on webpages, newsletters, and social media profiles of Norwegian yarn firms. Data analysis revealed that firms’ sustainability communications could be related to underlying business model elements. At the same time, to consumers they were framed as product attributes or consequences to consumers, society, or the environment. This shows that firms conveyed business model information, but not in business model terms, which supports the idea of business model translation. The findings also indicated variation in how sustainability efforts were framed based on the firm’s sustainability focus.
企业可以将可持续性努力嵌入到商业模式要素中,如关键资源、关键活动或关键合作伙伴。为了利用他们的可持续发展努力,公司必须以一种对消费者有意义的方式展示这些努力,即转化它们。本研究探讨了可持续发展的努力是如何通过挪威纱线公司的网页、通讯和社交媒体资料传递给消费者的。数据分析表明,企业的可持续发展沟通可能与潜在的商业模式要素有关。与此同时,对消费者来说,它们被定义为产品属性或对消费者、社会或环境的后果。这表明公司传达了商业模式信息,但不是用商业模式术语,这支持了商业模式翻译的想法。调查结果还表明,根据公司的可持续发展重点,可持续发展工作的框架存在差异。
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引用次数: 8
On the Nature of Corporate Sustainability 论企业可持续发展的本质
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1086026619850180
J. Meuer, Julian Koelbel, V. Hoffmann
Scholarly and managerial interest in corporate sustainability has increased significantly in the past two decades. However, the field is increasingly criticized for failing to effectively contribute to sustainable development and for its limited impact on managerial practice. We argue that this criticism arises due to a fundamental ambiguity around the nature of corporate sustainability. To address the lack of concept clarity, we conduct a systematic literature review and identify 33 definitions of corporate sustainability. Adopting the Aristotelian perspective on definitions, one that promotes reducing concepts to their essential attributes, we discern four components of corporate sustainability. These components offer a conceptual space of inquiry that, while being parsimonious, offers nuanced understanding of the dimensions along which definitions of corporate sustainability differ. We discuss implications for research and practice and outline several recommendations for how advancements in construct clarity may lead to a better scholarly understanding of corporate sustainability.
在过去的二十年里,学术界和管理层对企业可持续性的兴趣显著增加。然而,该领域因未能有效促进可持续发展及其对管理实践的影响有限而受到越来越多的批评。我们认为,这种批评是由于企业可持续性的本质存在根本性的模糊性。为了解决概念不清晰的问题,我们进行了系统的文献综述,确定了33个企业可持续性的定义。采用亚里士多德的定义观,即将概念简化为其基本属性,我们辨别出企业可持续性的四个组成部分。这些组成部分提供了一个概念性的探究空间,虽然简洁,但对企业可持续性的定义不同的维度有着微妙的理解。我们讨论了对研究和实践的影响,并概述了一些建议,以了解结构清晰性的进步如何使学术界更好地理解企业可持续性。
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引用次数: 73
What Gives Life to Large System Change? 是什么赋予了大系统变化生命?
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1086026619842482
S. Waddock, Petra Kuenkel
This article argues that the capacity to create the large system change needed to deal with “grand challenges” like the Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability, or climate change can be enhanced by understanding and applying a core set of principles, drawn from multiple sources and levels of analysis that have explored the question of “what gives life.” These sources all—albeit in different ways—apply the question, what “gives life” to different types of systems, and how this relates to the (so far as we know) uniquely human capacity for reflection. We identify six principles that “give life” to systems—intentional generativity, permeable containment, emerging novelty, contextual interconnectedness and requisite diversity, mutually enhancing wholeness, and proprioceptive consciousness—then provide guidance for change agents and scholars, as well as an illustrative example of the principles in action. These six principles provide a foundation for thinking about how to create flourishing human systems in organizations, social change, and global sustainability transformation.
这篇文章认为,通过理解和应用一套核心原则,可以增强应对可持续发展目标、可持续性或气候变化等“重大挑战”所需的大规模系统变革的能力,这些原则来自于探索“是什么赋予了生命”问题的多个来源和层次的分析。“这些来源——尽管方式不同——都应用了一个问题,什么“赋予生命”给不同类型的系统,以及这与(据我们所知)人类独特的反思能力有何关系。我们确定了为系统“赋予生命”的六个原则——有意的生成性、可渗透的包容、新兴的新颖性、上下文的相互联系和必要的多样性、相互增强的整体性和本体感觉意识——然后为变革推动者和学者提供指导,并举例说明这些原则的作用。这六条原则为思考如何在组织、社会变革和全球可持续性转型中创建繁荣的人类系统提供了基础。
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引用次数: 11
Business Models for Sustainability: Choices and Consequences 可持续发展的商业模式:选择和后果
IF 5.3 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1086026619854217
S. Schneider, T. Clauss
Business models for sustainability (BMFS) explicitly consider, jointly, economic with social and/or ecological value contributions. Thus, managing BMFS requires that one should combine multiple institutional logics, consider different stakeholders, and integrate distinct value dimensions. While research into BMFS has proposed frameworks and tools to capture this complexity, the mechanisms that underlie the interaction of the economic with social and/or ecological value creation cycles in BMFS remain unknown. We use a longitudinal, multiple-case study approach to identify a framework of fundamental choices and consequences that lead to economic and social/ecological value creation. Our findings highlight the interdependence of a set of three fundamental choices (an ambition to cater for multiple purposes, behavioral consistency, and collaboration) that lead to a virtuous circle of reinforcing consequences and cascaded value creation. Furthermore, we show how acceptance of limitations and restrictions functions as a powerful coping mechanism to deal with paradox tensions.
可持续性商业模式明确考虑经济、社会和/或生态价值的共同贡献。因此,管理BMFS需要结合多种制度逻辑,考虑不同的利益相关者,并整合不同的价值维度。虽然对BMFS的研究提出了捕捉这种复杂性的框架和工具,但BMFS中经济与社会和/或生态价值创造周期相互作用的机制仍然未知。我们采用纵向、多案例研究的方法来确定导致经济和社会/生态价值创造的基本选择和后果的框架。我们的研究结果强调了一组三个基本选择的相互依存性(满足多种目的的雄心、行为一致性和协作),这三个选择导致了强化后果和级联价值创造的良性循环。此外,我们还展示了接受限制和限制是如何作为一种强大的应对机制来应对矛盾紧张局势的。
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