Analysis of indicators to evaluate the industrial parks contribution to sustainable development

Abstract

Purpose -The paper suggested a sustainability indicators framework for industrial parks in contexts where information is weakly reliable or insufficient. The authors tried to cover those gaps and construct an indicators framework by answering the following research questions: can a combination of "adopted international" certifications be locally implemented in the Mexican context to reflect the level of regional sustainability of clusters of companies? How sustainable individual performance can be extended to a cluster of companies through collaborative strategies? What is the level of agreement on key success factors for implementing voluntary certification scheme in Mexican Industrial Parks? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach -In order to provide a more realistic set of sustainability indicators for Mexican Industrial Parks, the authors first carried out an analysis of secondary information sources for matching sustainability indicators with available related data which is reported by companies along their certification processes. The main purpose of doing this was to construct the indicator framework, which was explored empirically in the second phase of this research. During such phase, the authors validated the indicators framework by means of surveys and interviews to gather the perceptions of Mexican business managers selected from United Nations indicators which were coupled to available certifications in Mexico. Findings -It has been observed that the sustainability indicators framework can be adopted from international structures to the local/regional situation when companies have framed their performance under international certifications allowing to count with a minimum of indicators to be used for sustainability development tracking. Originality/value -Sustainability indicators in industrial parks is not an addressed topic in Latin America. Mexico can be taken as an example for the other Latin American countries in sustainability trends and shows the current context of the use of this tool for measurement.

A practical supply-demand hub in industrial clusters: a new perspective

“…In Constraint (1-8), the term ∑s,m,tONsmt enumerates the total number of shipping materials from SDHIC to all producers in all periods and ∑m,t ON′mt counts the total number of collecting products from all producers in all periods. Given this, Constraint (1-8) calculates total transaction cost of shipping materials from SDHIC to all manufacturers, and Constraint (1-9) computes total transaction cost of gathering products from all manufacturers (to SDHIC). Also, parameters ξ and ξ’ denote transaction cost coefficients of materials and products for each time, respectively.…”

“…In better words, the optimization of ICs’ activities is inadequately studied so far, and in this research, an endeavor is made to remove such a significant gap in the literature. Bastida-Ruiz et al , (2013) suggested a sustainability signs outline for industrial parks so that information is inadequately reliable or not enough. They attempted to remove these gaps and made an indicator outline.…”

Evaluation Research on Planning Implementation of Chinese Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zones along the Belt and Road: Evidence from Longjiang Industrial Park, Vietnam

“…The performance evaluation of industrial parks has received much attention by scholars with a lot of leading research results. Maria Laura Franco Garcia has provided a set of more realistic sustainability indicators for Mexico Industrial Parks [27]. Maria Zenilda Da Silva, by the Multicriteria Methodology for Constructivist Decision Aid (MCDA-C), has established a qualitative and quantitative analysis model for the performance evaluation in the implementation stage of high-tech industrial parks, offering an important support tool to the management decision-making of the industrial parks [28].…”

Sustainability Reporting as a Challenge for Performance Measurement: Literature Review

“…Bergenwall, Chen and White [9] explore the effects of different process designs not only on the traditional profitability performance measures but also on workforce management and environmental performance measures. Bastida-Ruiz, Franco-García and Kreiner [7] suggest a sustainability indicators framework for industrial parks in the context where information is weakly reliable or insufficient. Molnár and Dolinsky [52] present the way of application of methodology of environmental metrics within the total environmental assessment framework for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).…”