Brazilian design for sustainability: in search of a local approach

Filho, Eduardo Romeiro

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.08.065

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“…2409-2411Hansen, Große-Dunker, Reichwald, & Ralf, 2009, p. 695;Jørgensen, Le Bocq, Nazarkina, & Hauschild, 2008;Kagan & Kirchberg, 2016;Kloepffer, 2008;Krieger, 1972;Maxwell & van der Vorst, 2003, pp. 892-893;Ny, Mac-Donald, Broman, Yamamoto, & Robèrt, 2009, p. 68;Pizzirani et al, 2014;Romeiro Filho, 2015;Stanger, 2017)), including the generic and extended life-cycle dimension of considering supply chain, production, distribution and packaging (logistics), service, use and/or maintenance, and end-of-life; the sustainability dimension through adopting the extended triple-bottom-line principle towards a quadruple-bottom-line of addressing economic, environmental, societal/social aspects of sustainability, adding culture "as a more or less self-standing or freestanding 4th pillar" (Dessein et al, 2015, 24-25, 28, 33;Elkington, 2002, 69 et seqq. ;Engert et al, , p. 2834Jeurissen, 2000, p. 229;Pappas, Pappas, & Sweeney, 2015, p. 324;Pizzirani et al, 2014Pizzirani et al, , p. 1324Romeiro Filho, 2015, p. 468;Sonnemann, Gemechu, Remmen, Frydendal, & Jensen, 2015, p. 11;Weidinger et al, 2014, p. 18); and the corporate-sustainability dimension of assessing:…”

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Assessing and managing sustainability in international perspective: corporate sustainability across cultures – towards a strategic framework implementation approach

Gerner

2019

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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Introduction: Sustainability constitutes an essential element in corporate contexts by now. Corporate sustainability may be addressed differently, either selectively or integrated. The holistic approach opted for primarily focuses on conveying aspects of corporate sustainability across different socio-cultural contexts. In doing so, the full quadruple scope of sustainability dimensions is considered cornerstone of a well-chosen case-study design. Such particular reference prototypically exemplifies business models in highly volatile commodity markets. Continuously longing for optimization and rationalization due to creativity and productivity gains, the company is predominantly challenged by changing customer needs resulting from digitization as mega trend of the twenty-first century. Case description: Alluding to the business of stationery and professional office supplies, this case study aims at advocating the systematic proceeding of how to strengthen corporate sustainability through both embracing existing and evolving culture-bound approaches of sustainability vis-à-vis a framework implementation strategy and related guidelines for implementation at operational level. The essential quest is how to convey aspects of corporate sustainability across different socio-cultural contexts? Aiming at contributing to some kind of framework implementation strategy this implies reflecting upon assessing the status quo of corporate sustainability-related strategic approaches, activities and initiatives, means and instruments (sustainability performance); identifying universal and culture-bound drivers (sustainability opportunity); and deducing operational guidelines towards stakeholder awareness, selected strategic options, projects and best practices (sustainability commitment). Given the theoretical background of corporate sustainability and related contexts, impetus for operationalizing is created by triple means of: ▪ Adopting an extended and generic life-cycle assessment (LCA) as core analytic framework and structuring element, corresponding with the value-chain-oriented approach of business segments, ▪ Applying the multi-method paradigm of methodological triangulation, including stakeholder observation, expert interviews and company resources, and ▪ Framing major characteristics as case study according to principles of qualitative content analysis.

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Assessing and managing sustainability in international perspective: corporate sustainability across cultures – towards a strategic framework implementation approach

Gerner

2019

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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“…Lilley [19] underlines that the function of the product can only be justified including the framework within which the product is evolving. Thus, eco-design processes need to be based on local conditions; besides, specific approaches for sustainability need to be developed taking into account the local skills and competences [20].…”

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Local Value Creation and Eco-design: A New Paradigm

Tyl¹,

Lizarralde²,

Allais³

2015

Procedia CIRP

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Design has a great role to play in sustainability. Interesting progresses has been performed within the last decades. Nevertheless, some issues of sustainability, and their impact on design, remains poorly studied. Specifically, when it comes to the field of local value creation, the literature in design is still limited. However, the Local Value Creation (LVC) thinking can be a great insight for designers to develop more ecoinnovative concepts, through new product design, new services and new business models. In order to go towards this direction, it is necessary to include new variables that are rarely considered in design processes such as the local workforce, sustainable local resources or the customization of the new product or service for local customers. This paper proposes a better understanding of the relation between eco-design approaches and LVC, and more precisely how current eco-design approaches consider this issue. To do so, a first part introduces the Local Value Creation concept and its challenges for sustainability. Then, a second part focuses on a literature review to understand how the LVC dimension is studied in the eco-design process. This will lead in a third section to concretely characterize how eco-design approaches and tools consider LCV issue. A last section proposes to identify potential contradiction between the LVC and the eco-design concept, in order to draw first outlines of a new eco-design paradigm with a Local Value Creation dimension.

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“…According to Grant (1997), processes in developing countries should be adequate and not time-consuming [63]. Furthermore, they should be easy to build, technologically appropriate and support workers [13,29,54,[64][65][66]. Because of the high market uncertainty, the processes should be flexible in production speed, product mix and quantities [6,52,67], have low complexity [5,38] and avoid effort [6].…”

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“…Also they should be robust [68], avoid tests ([69] p. 7), quickly ramp up [70] and be standardized in processes and measurements [8,71,72]. Since the output strongly depends on the qualification level of the employees [46,54] and the technological abilities [46,65,67,73], processes should be adapted to the site-specific requirements and use labor-intensive assembly methods [64,65]. The local information system should be used [30,36,38,64] and energy saving implemented [74].…”

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“…Technology Process Adequate and low in expedience 8 [13,29,54,[63][64][65][66]83] Flexible in speed, product mix and quantities 5 [6,52,55,67,110] Low in complexity 2 [5,38] Low in effort 1 [6] Robust 1 [68] Avoid tests 1 [69] Fast to ramp up 1 [70] Standardized in process and measurement 8 [8,30,34,41,60,64,71,72] Output depends on the worker's skill level 3 [46,54,111] Output depends on technological capabilities 4 [46,65,67,73] Appropriate to local requirements and assembly intensive 9 [5,27,29,47,54,57,64,65,90] Local information system 4 [30,36,38,64] Energy sav...…”

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Production Challenges in Least Developed Countries

2020

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Local production sites in least developed countries offer sustainability for both multinational corporations and local society. However, corporations often hesitate because of uncertain environmental influences on production sites in these countries. To minimize planning uncertainties, we aim to identify and categorize the challenges of local production in least developed countries. Therefore, we conduct a research on local production challenges described in current literature. Our results indicate that the influences can be clustered and occur independent of the country. To show practical relevance and actuality of the identified production challenges, we conducted two case studies. Additionally, these studies give examples for organizational, product-specific and technological solutions to overcome the prevailing challenges. In summary, we support the removal of barriers that keep corporates from setting up local production sites in least developed countries.

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Brazilian design for sustainability: in search of a local approach

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing and managing sustainability in international perspective: corporate sustainability across cultures – towards a strategic framework implementation approach

Assessing and managing sustainability in international perspective: corporate sustainability across cultures – towards a strategic framework implementation approach

Local Value Creation and Eco-design: A New Paradigm

Production Challenges in Least Developed Countries

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