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Social issues such as sustainability, poverty alleviation, health care management, philanthropic activities, humanitarian aid, and education can all benefit from modeling efforts from operations management and production economics researchers. This focus, for which we term compassionate operations, has seen increased attention in recent years. With the culmination of major natural and man-made crises, increased environmental concerns, and increased globalization and knowledge, comes a wider awareness of social problems that need to be addressed. We, as a community of scholars can further investigation into this topic. Thus, in this paper we identify some characteristics and dimensions of compassionate operations, what research has been completed in the International Journal of Production Economics on compassionate operations, directions for potential research and an overview of papers in this special issue. Significant findings and directions for additional research are introduced.
Extreme weather is a grand challenge affecting production and operations. In this editorial for the special issue on "extreme weather and production economics", we first review the topic briefly by examining and linking existing studies in the literature. Then, we introduce the special issue publications. These publications not only provide insights into various aspects of this topic but also set the foundation for important future study directions. Examples of potential future directions include more effectively modeling risk and uncertainty through stochastic models, understanding the various nuances of this grand challenge problem through multimethodological perspectives, and addressing concerns through disruptive technology innovations. Finally, we conclude this editorial by further commentary on the persistence and response of future extreme weather events in organizational and interorganizational production and operations.
This chapter provides some results and a structure that would benefit the management of green market development, either for private green marketers or public green marketing developers. From an organisational perspective, the involvement within, and development of, an industrial ecosystem needs to be accomplished from a proactive, competitive-advantage dimension. The chapter focuses on the initial results of a study examining the market for recyclable materials and products. A review of environmental practices from an internal and external 'marketing' perspective sets the foundation. The chapter summarises the results of a small survey containing a series of questions put to organisations along the Texas–Mexico border on various recycling and environmental practices. With the North American Free Trade Agreement in full force, worries about environmental practices and degradation have come to the forefront of policy decisions that concern operations along the Texas–Mexico border.
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The water, energy, and food (WEF) nexus has gained particular attention in the sustainable development community. Making effective decisions in this environment is difficult. Entwinement from multiple sustainability dimensions and various stakeholder perspectives contribute to this difficulty. Stakeholders have differing goals, interests, and preferences for potential technological and developmental solutions that address WEF nexus concerns. A holistic sustainable management approach with supporting decision support can address these concerns. This article introduces such a holistic framework to address WEF-sustainability (WEFS) concerns. Using a joint neighborhood rough set, interval-valued hesitant fuzzy set, and regret theory technique, this article introduces a multistakeholder transdisciplinary method to support WEFS nexus decisions. An illustrative example integrates the multiple stakeholder and WEFS nexus factors. The illustrative example provides insights into the modeling effort and data requirements. Research, practical implications, along with limitations of the study—which are all discussed—provide a foundation for future research directions in this socio-environmentally important field.
Supplier development is a critical competitive endeavor for organizations and their supply chains. Investigation into this area has increased over the past
This paper draws from multiple streams of research to present an integrated overview of the research on sustainability in business practices in an international context by using institutional theory. A brief review of the research on institutional theory and on sustainability is presented. The body of literature is examined with a focus on integrating the two research streams, evaluating their merits, and identifying some gaps in the literature. This examination also includes how variations in institutions contribute to differences in sustainable business practices between developed and emerging countries. This paper offers a comprehensive discussion of the current state of research as well potential direction for future research which includes further analysis of institutional environments, awareness raising of stakeholders on sustainable development institutional environments, and adoption of quantitative modelling approaches for institutional sustainable development research.
Summary For at least the past two decades, eco‐industrial parks (EIPs) have been promoted as policy and commercial instruments for achieving industrial sustainable development. Yet, few EIPs have seen successful operational implementation, especially if they begin as standard industrial parks. Rapid economic growth, commensurate with increasing environmental damage in China, has resulted in officials’ further pursuing EIP policy as a significant element of the broader circular economy and ecological modernization efforts. This article examines the barriers for EIP development from industrial park senior manager perspectives. Using resource dependence theory and the resource‐based view as theoretical lenses, we investigate the external and internal barriers for EIP development in 51 Chinese industrial parks. A number of barriers are identified and grouped through a factor analysis. Cluster analysis is utilized to help categorize and evaluate the perceived levels of barriers and hardships experienced by various senior officials that manage the EIPs. It is found that few respondents encounter no significant barriers. Barriers related to technological development and capacity building are the most prevalent. These results highlight the relative importance of various activities that may be necessary by policy makers and other stakeholders to overcome the barriers. For example, cooperation in developing technological solutions for EIPs seems to be a major thrust that should be pursued by EIP development stakeholders. Other policy and managerial insights based on the general findings of this study are also presented.
The article is focused on ESCM - environmentally sustainable supply chain management. The main question is: how can organizations develop a ‘business case’ for valuing the practice? The answer goes far beyond environmental and technical improvements.
The integration of enterprise systems and the supply chain to an organization is becoming more critical in an ever-changing, globally competitive environment. Quick response will require close relationships, especially communications and information sharing among integrated internal functional groups as well as the suppliers and customers of an organization. Texas Instruments (TI), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has come to realize this requirement for building and maintaining its competitive edge. Thus, it sought to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with a focus on linking it with a global electronic commerce (e-commerce) setting, an innovative and current issue (Weston, 2003).
The natural environment and the manufacturing function are becoming inextricably linked. As the new millennium approaches and progresses, profitability, productivity and environmental consciousness are increasingly viewed as integral goals of manufacturing organizations. The issues facing manufacturing organizations, in general, and the manufacturing function in particular, are discussed in this paper. Some of the current practices and future requirements for an environmentally sustainable manufacturing enterprise are included in this discussion. Even though the focus is on manufacturing strategy and operations, issues relevant to the overall organization and other functions are also included. In the final analysis, this field and topic is relatively novel to most organizations, ample room exists for both practitioners and researchers for making progress in the next millennium.
Prior research has shown mixed results for the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance. Call for investigations on mediators and moderators have been put on notice to provide further explanations of previous mixed findings. This study responds to the calls for research by investigating the mediation effect of CSR outcomes, on the relationship between CSR governance and financial performance. We extract CSR governance and outcomes data from the Bloomberg environmental, social and governance (ESG) database and financial performance data from the COMPUSTAT database. Using a sample of 1980 firm-year observations from the top 500 Green companies in the United States for the years 2009 through 2013, we find that CSR outcomes mediate the relationships between CSR governance and financial performance. The results suggest that whether companies implement CSR governance successfully to generate good CSR outcomes plays an important role influencing companies’ financial performance. The results of our study contribute to the CSR literature by providing an explanation of the mediation effects of actual CSR outcomes to the previous heterogeneous findings on CSR-financial return relationships.
Environmental pollution and resource depletion pressures have caused manufacturers in developing countries such as China to improve environmental performance. In response, thoughtful and innovative enterprises have implemented emergent environmental management practices including elements of green supply chain management (GSCM). Diffusion of these practices to enterprises occurs from internal and external influences. Given that GSCM practices can be viewed as management innovations, this article applies the seminal Bass model to analyse GSCM practices diffusion. Specifically, the Bass model for diffusion is used to evaluate data for ISO 14001 certification and eco-labelling practices in China. In this investigation, we evaluate the relative roles of innovation and imitation drivers for diffusion of these GSCM practices. We find that even though innovation is not insignificant, imitation plays a much larger role for these specific GSCM practices diffusions amongst Chinese enterprises. Managerial and policy implications of these and other findings are also discussed.
Environmental challenges and increasing resource consumption may be mitigated through organizational circular economy (CE) practices. Implementing CE practices requires organizations to rethink, develop, and implement new initiatives and processes. It has been argued that blockchain technology (BCT) can support corporate and supply chain CE practices. However, empirical evidence on whether BCT adoption can complement corporate CE practices when considering firm financial performance is virtually non-existent. Using the resource-based view and a dataset of 1766 firm-year observations of Chinese listed companies, we investigate the relationship between corporate CE practices and financial performance, as well as the moderating effect of BCT adoption. Initial findings reveal a significantly positive relationship between corporate CE practices and financial performance. However, counterintuitively, BCT adoption not only directly negatively relates to firm financial performance but also weakens the positive relationship between CE practices and financial performance. Further analysis found that these direct and indirect negative effects of BCT adoption are only observed in resource-constrained firms, supporting our argument from a resource scarcity perspective. This study provides new insights into the nuanced relationship among CE practices, BCT adoption, and financial performance from the resource-based view. These insights provide new and valuable guidance for researchers and practitioners.
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a central policy within China's regional development and foreign trade strategy. Traditional trade has typically depended on economic valuation of resources, while the embedded environmental value is rarely considered. This situation exists in most BRI trade evaluations. To address BRI environmental sustainability issues, we consider the role of pivotal Chinese provinces and their key trade partners (ASEAN countries) as an illustration for the environmental value of resource exchanges. Emergy accounting is used as the valuation tool for a sample period of seventeen years. Key results include: (1) Emergy valuations show sustainability of sample provinces decreased over time; (2) ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam play significant resource roles for provincial economic systems; (3) Diverse trends in trade between pivotal provinces and ASEAN countries resulted in an unbalanced trade structure from trade. Policy implications are proposed to promote a more globally sustainable and fair trade using BRI as an established trade policy.
