Economies’ inclusive and green industrial performance: An evidence based proposed index

Halkos, George; Alba, Jaime Moll De; Todorov, Valentin

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123516

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“…Disparities in circularity and eco-innovativeness between countries may, however, reveal deeper inequalities between European countries. In this respect, our results are consistent with Llorente González's conclusions, which indicated that different levels of development, technological intensity, and labour cost structures have in turn given rise to different levels of CE within Europe (Llorente levels of eco-innovativeness in Europe(Halkos et al, 2021;Horbach, 2016), and efforts in this direction should continue. Eastern European countries are still characterised by energy intensive technologies and lower financial performance, which make them more dependent upon subsidies and knowledge transfer from Western European countries to eco-innovate.…”

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“…There is at least one previous call recommending environmental policies to stimulate eco‐innovation, and more specifically in Member States that have joined the EU from 2004 (Beltrán‐Esteve & Picazo‐Tadeo, 2017). Consequently, research is being conducted to identify the different drivers and country conditions that explain the different levels of eco‐innovativeness in Europe (Halkos et al, 2021; Horbach, 2016), and efforts in this direction should continue. Eastern European countries are still characterised by energy intensive technologies and lower financial performance, which make them more dependent upon subsidies and knowledge transfer from Western European countries to eco‐innovate.…”

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How does it pay to be circular in production processes? Eco‐innovativeness and green jobs as moderators of a cost‐efficiency advantage in European small and medium enterprises

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This study investigates whether circularity in production processes generates a reduction of firms' production costs and the conditions that determine the intensity of this reduction. It explores the role of two moderators for this cost‐efficiency advantage to emerge, namely, eco‐innovativeness (investments dedicated to the adequate implementation of circular practices in current production processes) and green jobs (human resources dedicated to circular practices). Using data on 13,117 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from the Flash Eurobarometer 2017, a cluster analysis revealed that there is a gradual path towards Circular Economy among European SMEs, with the implementation of increasingly more circular practices. Four ordered probit models confirmed that a higher level of circularity in processes achieved by European SMEs is related to a reduction in their production costs. Moreover, eco‐innovativeness positively moderates this relation. In contrast, the relative share of green jobs in SMEs' workforce mitigates the impact of circularity on production costs. In practice, by engaging in circularity, SMEs can contribute to the United Nations goals for Sustainable Development while reducing production costs; although the level of this reduction depends on how circularity is implemented.

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How does it pay to be circular in production processes? Eco‐innovativeness and green jobs as moderators of a cost‐efficiency advantage in European small and medium enterprises

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“…Based on the circular economy strategy, many global cities have taken actions to going zero waste. While such campaigns look like these would turn our society on the way to go green, social and cultural change in cities generates more complex challenges for environmental sustainability [24][25][26]. By changing the linear economy into a circular economy, the circular economy actually changes many other basic elements in our economic system as well [7,27,28].…”

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Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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The concept of circular economy (CE) offers an innovative and systematical approach to address a number of urban sustainability issues, via exploring symbiotic ways to design circular urban systems and optimizing the materials and energy metabolism of cities, so as to mitigate environmental footprints. Urban sustainability is highlighted as a critical issue in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by United Nations; hence, in nature, circular economy could offer a number of solutions towards SDGs in urban scope. As trade-offs, circular economy also potentially causes negative impacts to business-asusual scenario, which is easily to be ignored. To highlight this scientific issue, this paper identified and matched the role of circular economy in realizing 17 SDGs in urban scope. How circular economy strategy could potentially affect the SDGs, whether positive or negative, were comprehensively evaluated. We expect such findings could support an equilibrium decision-making on circular economy promotion in cities, rather than an optimum solution to a single target under the triple bottom line of sustainability.

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“…This paper builds upon the Green Industrial Performance Index (GIP) index, which to the best of our knowledge is the only attempt to measure in a systematic manner national green industrial performance (Moll de Alba and Todorov 2018a , b ; 2020a , b ). Kolomeytseva ( 2020 ) benchmarked the industrial performance of the Eurasian Economic Union countries using the GIP index, Acosta et al ( 2019 ) used one of its components, i.e., the share of green employment to compute their Green Growth Index, and Halkos et al ( 2021 ) expanded it to establish the inclusive and green industrial performance index.…”

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Measuring green industrial performance: a regional outlook of Eastern Asia and Europe

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Todorov

2022

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Is it possible to measure the green performance of the manufacturing sector? Which world regions are doing better in terms of green industrialization? This paper develops a novel methodology to respond to these questions by improving the green industrial performance (GIP) index through the refinement and expansion of the green product list that lies at its core. The paper constructs a new database using international comparable data sources such as the UNIDO's industrial statistics database and the UN COMTRADE, to compute the GIP index and rank 116 economies in terms of their ability to produce and export green industrial products. The paper shows that industrialized economies outperformed other economies with Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Czechia and Austria topping the GIP ranking of industrial green performance in 2019. Then it estimates and compares the relative green industrial performance of eight country groupings to conclude that Northern America, Europe and Eastern Asia perform significantly better than the other country groupings. Our analysis of Europe and Eastern Asia serves to display significant differences in green industrial performance of economies even within these two leading country groupings. Finally, the paper puts forward recommendations for future research and measurement of the green performance of the manufacturing sector of the world’s economies and regions.

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Economies’ inclusive and green industrial performance: An evidence based proposed index

Cited by 27 publications

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How does it pay to be circular in production processes? Eco‐innovativeness and green jobs as moderators of a cost‐efficiency advantage in European small and medium enterprises

How does it pay to be circular in production processes? Eco‐innovativeness and green jobs as moderators of a cost‐efficiency advantage in European small and medium enterprises

Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Measuring green industrial performance: a regional outlook of Eastern Asia and Europe

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