End-of-pipe or cleaner production? How to go green in presence of income inequality and pro-environmental behavior

Mantovani, Andrea; Tarola, Ornella; Vergari, Cecilia

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.110

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“…Among the most significant sustainability practices that have been integrated into the value chain of companies is Cleaner Production (CP) (UNEP, 2012). CP refers to the continuous application of an integrated economic, environmental, and technological strategy to products and processes in order to increase efficiency in the use of raw materials, water, and energy through the non-generation, minimization or recycling of waste in all production sectors (Mantovani et al 2017;UNEP, 2001). Therefore, CP seeks to provide preventive actions aiming to minimize the impact to the environment, and avoid actions carried out only at the exit of the production system.…”

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A lean and cleaner production benchmarking method for sustainability assessment: A study of manufacturing companies in Brazil

Ramos

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Kumar

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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A constant evolution in the efficiency of production systems and government policies has enabled the control of the environmental impact of production activities and encouraged companies to develop strategies to achieve more sustainable operations. Despite this, more needs to be done to reduce the risks of globalised production activities. In this context, evidence suggests that Lean Manufacturing (LM) and Cleaner Production (CP) make a positive contribution to the environmental performance of organisations. However, very little has been reported in the scholarly literature regarding the convergence and divergence of these two approaches. This work therefore attempts to take advantage of the synergies of LM and CP by proposing a Lean Cleaner Production Benchmarking (LCPB) method to assess the practices and culture regarding the application of CP in companies. The method considers the management aspects of people, information, products, suppliers and customers, management and processes, as well as the LM practices that contribute to a more eco-efficient production. LCPB uses a methodology based on benchmarking that was applied to 16 Brazilian manufacturing companies in order to assess their practices and performances regarding CP. The method seeks to provide a diagnosis to verify whether CP is effectively carried out by the companies, and what their performances are regarding actions beneficial to the environment. The application of LM practices that contribute to CP was also evaluated through the proposed LCPB method. The paper contributes to the theory by proving further evidence of the compatibility and synergies of LM and CP. In addition, it proposes a novel method that enables the analysis of companies' practices and performances related to CP, assesses their actions associated with sustainability, and contributes to identifying points where there is a lack and difficulty regarding CP. The proposed method helps to relate LM and CP activities, indicating that companies that seek to apply LM concepts are those that present high CP practices and performance.

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A lean and cleaner production benchmarking method for sustainability assessment: A study of manufacturing companies in Brazil

Ramos

Ferreira

Kumar

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Theory of green development behavior and performance of industrial enterprises (GDBP-IE) [23,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] Clean production behavior [23,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] Green supply chain management practice [23,[66][67][68][69][70][71] Green development performance of industrial enterprises (GDP-IE)…”

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“…To improve environmental performance, enterprises are subject to government regulation in the short term and passively increase investment in environmental technology upgrades. However, forcing enterprises to increase costs can damage competitive advantages [64,65].…”

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Understanding the Green Development Behavior and Performance of Industrial Enterprises (GDBP-IE): Scale Development and Validation

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2020

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Industrial enterprises have provided outstanding contributions to economic development in countries around the world. The green development of industrial enterprises has received widespread attention from researchers. However, existing research lacks the tools to scientifically measure the green development behavior and performance of industrial enterprises. According to the theory of green development behavior and performance of industrial enterprises (GDBP-IE), the aim of this paper is to provide a tool for scientifically measuring such behavior and performance. This paper determined the initial scale through literature analysis and expert discussions and obtained valid samples from 31 provincial administrative regions in China through field and online surveys (N = 853). The exploratory factor analysis method was used to test the reliability and validity of the scale. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) The reliability and validity of the GDBP-IE scale are good; (2) the GDBP-IE scale, with a total of 70 items, comprises four sub-scales: The internal factors sub-scale, the external factors sub-scale, the green development behavior of industrial enterprises sub-scale, and the green development performance of industrial enterprises sub-scale. Among them, the internal factors sub-scale, with a total of 13 items, consists of two dimensions: Corporate tangible resources and corporate intangible resources. The external factors sub-scale, with a total of 23 items, consists of three dimensions: Market environment; public supervision; policy and institutional environment. The green development behavior of industrial enterprises sub-scale, with a total of 18 items, consists of two dimensions: Clean production behavior and green supply chain management practice. The green development performance of industrial enterprises sub-scale, with a total of 16 items, comprises three dimensions: Corporate social performance, corporate financial performance, and corporate environmental performance. The findings enrich the research on corporate organizational behavior, green behavior, and green development system theory, and provide tools for further empirical testing. The development and verification of green development behavior and performance of industrial enterprises can help guide various types of industrial enterprises in transforming to green development and can provide a reference for the government to formulate targeted green development policies.

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“…The rationale underlying the effectiveness of the subsidy compared to the tax in reducing emissions, is that, for s = t, the market share of the green producer is larger under tax than under subsidy, namelyx t H >x s H , while the reverse holds for the market share of brown producer, so thatx s L >x t L . 29 Thus, the net effect on global emissions depends on the relative contribution of every component. 30 In particular, only when a Government plans a massive fiscal intervention (t ≥t) in a country where the green producer is not so environmentally virtuous, then a relative subsidy should be preferred over a relative tax from an environmental viewpoint, since the former would reduce emissions more than the latter.…”

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“…We finally consider the effect of the subsidy on the environment when it is targeted to the green firm, as it is quite often observed in reality. 29 A larger demand from the low income consumer is faced under subsidy, in spite of the higher price of the dirty variant (p s L >p t L ). Indeed, the price gap under subsidy is larger than the corresponding gap under tax.…”

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Relative Tax in a Vertically Differentiated Market: The Key Role of Consumers in Environment

2017

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In this paper, under the assumption that green consumption has (at least partially) a social/psychological dimension, we analyse the effect of a carbon tax when it is imposed on consumers buying dirty products rather than on polluting firms. The amount of the tax paid is determined by the share of brown consumers in the market and the quality gap between variants. We show that this tax can abate emissions without inducing the undesirable relocation effect which can be observed in the case when a unilateral climate policy is imposed on polluting producers.

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End-of-pipe or cleaner production? How to go green in presence of income inequality and pro-environmental behavior

Cited by 72 publications

References 81 publications

A lean and cleaner production benchmarking method for sustainability assessment: A study of manufacturing companies in Brazil

A lean and cleaner production benchmarking method for sustainability assessment: A study of manufacturing companies in Brazil

Understanding the Green Development Behavior and Performance of Industrial Enterprises (GDBP-IE): Scale Development and Validation

Relative Tax in a Vertically Differentiated Market: The Key Role of Consumers in Environment

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