Customer pressure and innovativeness: Their role in sustainable supply chain management

Gualandris, Jury; Kalchschmidt, Matteo Giacomo Maria

doi:10.1016/j.pursup.2014.03.001

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“…The results of the studies propose that the adoption of sustainability programs impacts the adoption of innovation programs and vice versa; because coordination programs for product innovation include cross-functional integration, employee involvement and leveraging firms' ability to generate information, which in return would enhance the adoption of sustainability programs, (e.g., [50][51][52]). In this regard, case-based investigations illustrate that integrating innovation supports firms coping with the challenges of operational processes, particularly of implementing sustainability programs [53,54]. While, the majority of the studies lie in showing successful cases and/or projects, we are not aware of a simultaneous test on a large scale of firms on the bidirectional impact of the adoption of sustainability and innovation action programs.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 95%

Be Sustainable to Be Innovative: An Analysis of Their Mutual Reinforcement

Behnam

Cagliano

2016

Sustainability

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Sustainable development has attracted the increasing attention of both researchers and practitioners. While academicians and practitioners' focus towards sustainability has shifted to innovation, there is a need to understand how sustainability and innovation are interlinked. Thus, this paper attempts to analyze, first, the bidirectional impact of the firms' pursuit of sustainability and innovation as the priority, second, the bidirectional impact of the adoption of sustainability innovation action programs and, third, to discern the bidirectional influence of sustainability and innovation performances. The evidence is drawn from a sample of 860 manufacturing plants in 22 countries from the sixth edition of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey 2013. The survey was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire. Structural equation modelling has been employed to test the model. The results show that sustainability and innovation positively and significantly impact each other in terms of the adoption of their relevant action programs and performance. However, the pursuit of sustainability priority acts as an antecedent of innovation priority.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Be Sustainable to Be Innovative: An Analysis of Their Mutual Reinforcement

Behnam

Cagliano

2016

Sustainability

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“…Fahmnia et al [109] carry out a mathematical model to define a trade-off between costs and environmental performance in terms of indicators to measure energy consumed level and CO 2 emission level. Gualandris and Kalchshmidt [110] develop a survey in the manufacturing industry to investigate the relationship among sustainable initiatives, green supply chain management and customers pressure. Grosvold et al [39] provide a case study to analyze how GSCM and its practices impact on performance of companies belonging to the supply chain.…”

Section: Ta3 Impact Of Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainabmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Sustainability and Energy-Efficient Supply Chain Management: A Review of Research Trends and Proposed Guidelines

2018

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This paper conducts a structured review on the topic of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in the supply chain management context to define research trends on the topic and identify research gaps. The review is carried out using the largest databases of peer-reviewed literature (Scopus and Web of Science). A sample of 122 papers focusing on the topic of energy-efficient and sustainable supply chain management was selected and analyzed through descriptive and content analysis. The review highlights that despite there is a growing research trend on the topic, different research gaps remain to be covered. These gaps concern the factors influencing energy efficiency and environmental sustainability initiatives, the classification of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability initiatives, the impact of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability on supply chain performance, the customer perspective in sustainable and energy-efficient supply chain, and the different technologies supporting the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability initiatives. The research gaps and the research questions identified offer the opportunity to identify areas of investigation to design future research directions and propose guidelines in the field of supply chain management.

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“…This is because it is assumed that economic growth depends on energy consumption (Shen and Sun, 2016). The external pressures that are often considered as motivation for firms to adopt environmental management practices (Gualandris and Kalchschmidt, 2014) and in order to comply with regulatory requirements (Jones, 2010) they are grouped into three different institutional isomorphic categories: coercive pressure (Zhu et al, 2007), mimetic pressure (Jorgensen et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2013) and normative pressure (Zhang et al, 2012;Zhang, Wang & Lai, 2015). In addition, in order to balance economic and environmental performance in response to these external pressures, many industrial firms have recognized the importance of being low-carbon and environmentallyproactive by developing and implementing so-called 'green' strategies (Fisher-Vanden and Thorburn, 2011;Gale, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%