Rüdiger Hahn, Thomas Pioch, Daniel Reimsbach, Frank Schiemann
Our study aims to shed light on the factors that drive managers' sustainability‐related decision‐making. We take a multilevel perspective, analyzing individual‐, organizational‐, and institutional‐level factors, which allows us to present a coherent account of a complex environment of influential factors. Based on an explorative vignette experiment with professional managers in a setting related to carbon‐reducing investments, we find that certain individual‐level factors, such as managers' biospheric orientation or a strong belief in business ethics, are associated with higher carbon‐reducing investments. However, these individual‐level factors do not alter the overall influence of organizational‐ and institutional‐level factors. The financial impact of carbon‐reducing investments—at the organizational level—as well as the number of carbon‐conscious investors and the regulatory disclosure regime in which a firm operates—at the institutional level—significantly drive managers' investment decisions. We find only a few instances in which specific factor combinations are decision‐relevant. These findings have important implications for research and policymaking with regard to improving corporate sustainability in general and particularly reducing corporate carbon emissions.
{"title":"What Drives Carbon‐Reducing Investments? A Vignette Experiment on Managers' Decision‐Making From a Multilevel Perspective","authors":"Rüdiger Hahn, Thomas Pioch, Daniel Reimsbach, Frank Schiemann","doi":"10.1002/bse.4134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4134","url":null,"abstract":"Our study aims to shed light on the factors that drive managers' sustainability‐related decision‐making. We take a multilevel perspective, analyzing individual‐, organizational‐, and institutional‐level factors, which allows us to present a coherent account of a complex environment of influential factors. Based on an explorative vignette experiment with professional managers in a setting related to carbon‐reducing investments, we find that certain individual‐level factors, such as managers' biospheric orientation or a strong belief in business ethics, are associated with higher carbon‐reducing investments. However, these individual‐level factors do not alter the overall influence of organizational‐ and institutional‐level factors. The financial impact of carbon‐reducing investments—at the organizational level—as well as the number of carbon‐conscious investors and the regulatory disclosure regime in which a firm operates—at the institutional level—significantly drive managers' investment decisions. We find only a few instances in which specific factor combinations are decision‐relevant. These findings have important implications for research and policymaking with regard to improving corporate sustainability in general and particularly reducing corporate carbon emissions.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) has become increasingly important in response to the harmful activities of some manufacturing firms in Ghana. Drawing on the Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity (AMO) framework, this study explores the influence of Green Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on OCBE, with a focus on the mediating role of employee engagement and the moderating effect of employee personality traits. Data were collected from 234 respondents using a structured questionnaire, and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) was used for analysis. The findings reveal that Green HRM practices have a positive impact on OCBE, with green recruitment and selection exerting the most significant influence. Additionally, green training and development positively affect employee engagement, which in turn mediates the relationship between green recruitment and selection, green training and development, and OCBE. Moreover, employee personality traits moderate these relationships, positively influencing the link between green recruitment and selection and employee engagement.
{"title":"Navigating the Green Path: Strategies for Enhancing Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment Through Green HRM Practices","authors":"Karen Dwumah, Peter Sappor, Francis Atta Sarpong","doi":"10.1002/bse.4149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4149","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) has become increasingly important in response to the harmful activities of some manufacturing firms in Ghana. Drawing on the Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity (AMO) framework, this study explores the influence of Green Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on OCBE, with a focus on the mediating role of employee engagement and the moderating effect of employee personality traits. Data were collected from 234 respondents using a structured questionnaire, and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) was used for analysis. The findings reveal that Green HRM practices have a positive impact on OCBE, with green recruitment and selection exerting the most significant influence. Additionally, green training and development positively affect employee engagement, which in turn mediates the relationship between green recruitment and selection, green training and development, and OCBE. Moreover, employee personality traits moderate these relationships, positively influencing the link between green recruitment and selection and employee engagement.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a linear economic model, unsustainable production and consumption patterns are linked to negative environmental impacts. However, there is little empirical research on the performance of manufacturing firms in developing the circular economy (CE) in New Zealand. Accordingly, this study explores how the CE has been implemented in New Zealand's food manufacturing firms and the key factors that drive and prevent their CE practices. Our study used a multiple‐case study of six large food manufacturing firms that engage in CE practices in New Zealand. We found that, although these firms focused on CE principles of reducing, reusing and recycling, the recovering principle is missing. Additionally, they face multiple barriers from the three most salient institutional pillars: regulatory, socio‐cognitive and economic/supply chain. The study contributes to extended institutional theory in the CE literature by establishing an integrated framework. Our practical contribution to the practitioners is to operate the four CE concepts simultaneously by promoting the identified institutional drivers.
{"title":"An Extended Institutional Theory Perspective on the Implementation of the Circular Economy: Empirical Insights From New Zealand Food Manufacturing Firms","authors":"Sitong Michelle Chen, Gabriel Eweje","doi":"10.1002/bse.4117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4117","url":null,"abstract":"In a linear economic model, unsustainable production and consumption patterns are linked to negative environmental impacts. However, there is little empirical research on the performance of manufacturing firms in developing the circular economy (<jats:sc>CE</jats:sc>) in New Zealand. Accordingly, this study explores how the <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> has been implemented in New Zealand's food manufacturing firms and the key factors that drive and prevent their <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> practices. Our study used a multiple‐case study of six large food manufacturing firms that engage in <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> practices in New Zealand. We found that, although these firms focused on <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> principles of reducing, reusing and recycling, the recovering principle is missing. Additionally, they face multiple barriers from the three most salient institutional pillars: regulatory, socio‐cognitive and economic/supply chain. The study contributes to extended institutional theory in the <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> literature by establishing an integrated framework. Our practical contribution to the practitioners is to operate the four <jats:sc>CE</jats:sc> concepts simultaneously by promoting the identified institutional drivers.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main aim of this study is to assess urban freight tours through integrating machine learning with the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). The research captures supply chain operations using the Gradient Boosting Regressor (GBR) model with real‐time data from surveys and Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking. These predictions were analysed using LCSA to assess the sustainability impacts of Hydrogen Fuel Light Commercial Vehicles (HFLCVs) and Electric Light Commercial Vehicles (ELCVs) compared to traditional fuel‐based vehicles. HFLCVs show remarkable reductions in ecosystem and health damage by 58% and 61%, indicating substantial environmental and health benefits. Findings suggest that strategic investment in hydrogen‐fuel and electric LCVs can significantly decrease operational costs and environmental impacts, making them crucial for advancing sustainable urban logistics. This research highlights the benefits and possibilities of using an integrated data‐driven approach to achieve urban sustainability, thus creating an urgency to shift policies favouring green urban freight systems.
{"title":"Assessing Urban Freight Tours: A Machine Learning and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Approach for Logistics Management","authors":"Sakthivelan Chakravarthy, Aakanksha Kishore, Sathiya Prabhakaran, Marimuthu Venkadavarahan","doi":"10.1002/bse.4114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4114","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this study is to assess urban freight tours through integrating machine learning with the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). The research captures supply chain operations using the Gradient Boosting Regressor (GBR) model with real‐time data from surveys and Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking. These predictions were analysed using LCSA to assess the sustainability impacts of Hydrogen Fuel Light Commercial Vehicles (HFLCVs) and Electric Light Commercial Vehicles (ELCVs) compared to traditional fuel‐based vehicles. HFLCVs show remarkable reductions in ecosystem and health damage by 58% and 61%, indicating substantial environmental and health benefits. Findings suggest that strategic investment in hydrogen‐fuel and electric LCVs can significantly decrease operational costs and environmental impacts, making them crucial for advancing sustainable urban logistics. This research highlights the benefits and possibilities of using an integrated data‐driven approach to achieve urban sustainability, thus creating an urgency to shift policies favouring green urban freight systems.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qaisar Iqbal, Katarzyna Piwowar‐Sulej, Reeti Agarwal, Muhammad Zafar Yaqub
Organizations are progressively focusing on their sustained growth by designing and implementing environmentally friendly policies. However, their environmental performance depends on their employees' proenvironmental behavior and the firm's sustainability policies. Previous research has provided evidence that environmentally specific servant leadership, transformational leadership, ethical leadership, spiritual leadership, and charismatic (value‐based) leadership enhance employee organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment (OCBE). However, limited research examines the role of sustainability‐oriented leadership (SOL) in maturing employees' OCBE. This research examines the SOL–employee OCBE linkage mediated through mechanisms like perceived environmental justice and affective commitment to one's supervisor under varying permutations of employee job embeddedness (EJE). More specifically, this paper examines SOL's direct, indirect, and moderated effects on OCBE through perceived environmental justice and employee commitment toward the leader under disparate EJE levels. The empirical findings confirm a direct impact of SOL on employees' OCBE. It was also evident that SOL significantly and indirectly influences employees' OCBE through procedural environmental justice under disparate levels of job embeddedness. The paper advances academic and managerial understanding on OCBE proliferate in organization. Besides enriching literature, the study's findings provide valuable insights to organizations seeking to enhance OCBE through fostering SOL, PEJ, and EJE.
{"title":"Sustainability‐Oriented Leadership and Business Strategy: Examining the Roles of Procedural Environmental Justice and Job Embeddedness","authors":"Qaisar Iqbal, Katarzyna Piwowar‐Sulej, Reeti Agarwal, Muhammad Zafar Yaqub","doi":"10.1002/bse.4133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4133","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations are progressively focusing on their sustained growth by designing and implementing environmentally friendly policies. However, their environmental performance depends on their employees' proenvironmental behavior and the firm's sustainability policies. Previous research has provided evidence that environmentally specific servant leadership, transformational leadership, ethical leadership, spiritual leadership, and charismatic (value‐based) leadership enhance employee organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment (OCBE). However, limited research examines the role of sustainability‐oriented leadership (SOL) in maturing employees' OCBE. This research examines the SOL–employee OCBE linkage mediated through mechanisms like perceived environmental justice and affective commitment to one's supervisor under varying permutations of employee job embeddedness (EJE). More specifically, this paper examines SOL's direct, indirect, and moderated effects on OCBE through perceived environmental justice and employee commitment toward the leader under disparate EJE levels. The empirical findings confirm a direct impact of SOL on employees' OCBE. It was also evident that SOL significantly and indirectly influences employees' OCBE through procedural environmental justice under disparate levels of job embeddedness. The paper advances academic and managerial understanding on OCBE proliferate in organization. Besides enriching literature, the study's findings provide valuable insights to organizations seeking to enhance OCBE through fostering SOL, PEJ, and EJE.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Media coverage is a key factor in increasing the flow and accessibility of information among the firm's stakeholders. Drawing on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective, we investigate the antecedents of the level of media coverage of family firms' activism in sustainability. Using hand‐collected data from a sample of public Italian family firms, we provide several novel contributions to the academic debate. First, we find that family involvement on the board of directors is negatively associated with the level of media coverage of the family firm's engagement in sustainability. Conversely, we find that later generational stages of the family business are positively associated with the level of corporate media coverage on sustainability. Our study advances the literature on both corporate sustainability issues and media coverage in the context of family businesses.
{"title":"The Impact of Family Determinants on the Media Coverage of Family Business Activism in Sustainability","authors":"Gianluca Ginesti, Mario Ossorio","doi":"10.1002/bse.4106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4106","url":null,"abstract":"Media coverage is a key factor in increasing the flow and accessibility of information among the firm's stakeholders. Drawing on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective, we investigate the antecedents of the level of media coverage of family firms' activism in sustainability. Using hand‐collected data from a sample of public Italian family firms, we provide several novel contributions to the academic debate. First, we find that family involvement on the board of directors is negatively associated with the level of media coverage of the family firm's engagement in sustainability. Conversely, we find that later generational stages of the family business are positively associated with the level of corporate media coverage on sustainability. Our study advances the literature on both corporate sustainability issues and media coverage in the context of family businesses.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142962787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Federica Tonnarello, Carlo Vermiglio, Carlo Migliardo, Valeria Naciti
This study investigates the relationship between European utility companies' compliance with the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities and their overall performance. The EU Taxonomy is a new regulation proposed by the European Commission to promote sustainable finance by 2050. The literature shows that nonfinancial disclosures have a favorable impact on financial performance. However, no research has been conducted to assess the implementation of the EU Taxonomy and its effect on firm performance. Using a sample of European utilities from 2012 to 2022, a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model was applied to analyze the causal relationship between compliance and performance. Based on institutional and signaling theories, the results show that companies reporting alignment with the Taxonomy exhibit higher market value, profitability, and efficiency than those that do not. This study contributes to firms' transparency and enriches academic discussions by offering insights for policymakers and by improving industry practices.
{"title":"The Impact of EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities on European Utilities' Performance","authors":"Federica Tonnarello, Carlo Vermiglio, Carlo Migliardo, Valeria Naciti","doi":"10.1002/bse.4128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4128","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the relationship between European utility companies' compliance with the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities and their overall performance. The EU Taxonomy is a new regulation proposed by the European Commission to promote sustainable finance by 2050. The literature shows that nonfinancial disclosures have a favorable impact on financial performance. However, no research has been conducted to assess the implementation of the EU Taxonomy and its effect on firm performance. Using a sample of European utilities from 2012 to 2022, a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model was applied to analyze the causal relationship between compliance and performance. Based on institutional and signaling theories, the results show that companies reporting alignment with the Taxonomy exhibit higher market value, profitability, and efficiency than those that do not. This study contributes to firms' transparency and enriches academic discussions by offering insights for policymakers and by improving industry practices.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Researchers have long problematised the gap between corporations' formulated sustainability strategies and their actual contributions to sustainability. This study draws on 24 months of real‐time observations in a multinational company to explore the origins of this gap in the formulation phase of corporate sustainability (CS) strategy. The findings show that contradictory logics and processes related to (a) gaining external legitimacy and (b) mobilising internal commitment impose paradoxical demands on the formulation process. Strategy makers tackled these tensions through rhetorical ambiguity and temporal separation. However, while these paradox management strategies facilitated coping with conflicting demands and avoiding deadlocks in the formulation process, they also created a commitment vacuum that undermined implementation. This study highlights the role of the formulation phase as an overlooked origin of implementation failure. The findings nuance our understanding of defensive and proactive paradox responses and call for further examination of the unintended outcomes of paradox responses.
{"title":"The Legitimacy–Commitment Paradox in Corporate Sustainability Strategy Formulation","authors":"Rikke Rønholt Albertsen","doi":"10.1002/bse.4131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4131","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have long problematised the gap between corporations' formulated sustainability strategies and their actual contributions to sustainability. This study draws on 24 months of real‐time observations in a multinational company to explore the origins of this gap in the formulation phase of corporate sustainability (CS) strategy. The findings show that contradictory logics and processes related to (a) gaining external legitimacy and (b) mobilising internal commitment impose paradoxical demands on the formulation process. Strategy makers tackled these tensions through rhetorical ambiguity and temporal separation. However, while these paradox management strategies facilitated coping with conflicting demands and avoiding deadlocks in the formulation process, they also created a commitment vacuum that undermined implementation. This study highlights the role of the formulation phase as an overlooked origin of implementation failure. The findings nuance our understanding of defensive and proactive paradox responses and call for further examination of the unintended outcomes of paradox responses.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicolas Desmoitier, Jean Roman, Benoit Hilloulin, Emmanuel Rozière, Alexis Laurent
The private sector has a pivotal role in contributing to the objective of the Paris Agreement and its 1.5° target. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework to define and implement climate change mitigation strategies in organisations. The current study aims to fill this gap by performing a critical review of existing schemes that can make a partial contribution to the definition of such strategies. We found 25 schemes used by private sector or studied in the literature by international NGOs and academic searcher and evaluated them based on 15 criteria developed for this study in order to cover key components of an effective framework for CCMS in organisations. No scheme fulfils all the criteria, but significant differences are observed between them, ranging from 0% to 80% of the criteria met. Based on this analysis, we propose a first harmonized five‐step iterative framework to define organisational climate change mitigation strategies. Eventually, the results of the schemes review and the framework proposal draw up a research agenda to derive robust, credible and operational climate strategies at organizational levels.
{"title":"Methods for Defining Climate Change Mitigation Strategies at Organisational Level Review and Outlook","authors":"Nicolas Desmoitier, Jean Roman, Benoit Hilloulin, Emmanuel Rozière, Alexis Laurent","doi":"10.1002/bse.4130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4130","url":null,"abstract":"The private sector has a pivotal role in contributing to the objective of the Paris Agreement and its 1.5° target. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework to define and implement climate change mitigation strategies in organisations. The current study aims to fill this gap by performing a critical review of existing schemes that can make a partial contribution to the definition of such strategies. We found 25 schemes used by private sector or studied in the literature by international NGOs and academic searcher and evaluated them based on 15 criteria developed for this study in order to cover key components of an effective framework for CCMS in organisations. No scheme fulfils all the criteria, but significant differences are observed between them, ranging from 0% to 80% of the criteria met. Based on this analysis, we propose a first harmonized five‐step iterative framework to define organisational climate change mitigation strategies. Eventually, the results of the schemes review and the framework proposal draw up a research agenda to derive robust, credible and operational climate strategies at organizational levels.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abeeku S. Edu, Eunice Ofosuhene, Divine Q. Agozie, Bright Akwasi Gyamfi, Simplice A. Asongu
This study examines the influence of sustainability practices on resource efficiency in Ghana's small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), utilizing a comprehensive framework that integrates environmental and social dimensions, enabling conditions, innovative practices, and technological advancements. Through a survey of 462 manufacturing SMEs, the research uncovers the complex interrelationships between sustainability practices and their impact on resource efficiency. The findings reveal four distinct sustainability pathways: the first underscores the critical importance of environmental dimensions and enabling conditions without robust social dimensions and innovative practices. The second highlights the significance of environmental and enabling conditions, even when technological innovativeness is limited. The third and fourth pathways emphasize the pivotal role of social dimensions and technological innovation, with innovative practices as supportive elements. Additionally, two typologies emerge, illustrating the integration of environmental and social dimensions with enabling conditions and the synergy between technological innovation, social dimensions, and innovative practices. This research advances the discourse on sustainability within SMEs, emphasizing the necessity for reduced resource consumption, conservation, efficient production, circular economy principles, and waste minimization. The findings suggest that achieving SDG 8.4 by 2030, which targets global resource efficiency, hinges on adopting these sustainable pathways with emphasis on Ghanaian SMEs. This study provides a deeper understanding of sustainability practices among developing economy SMEs, shedding light on the intricate dynamics that enhance resource management. It offers critical insights for policymakers and practitioners seeking to promote sustainability in local SMEs, particularly in Ghana, advocating for a holistic approach that considers the multifaceted nature of sustainability.
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