Environment sustainability through sustainability innovations

Tiwari, V.; Thakur, Shivani

doi:10.1007/s10668-020-00899-4

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“…The positive effect of innovation characteristics on sustainability adoption supports the assertions of DIT (Rogers, 2003) and can be explained in terms of the underlying dimensions of relative advantage, compatibility, simplicity, observability and trialability. As per the DIT, the innovations that are perceived to be easily implementable and compatible with the organizational structure, culture and values are likely to be adopted faster compared to the ideas that are perceived as complex and incompatible (Tiwari and Thakur, 2020). Similarly, innovations that offer advantages in terms of cost, efficiency and performance are more readily accepted and integrated into the social system (Chaudhary and Kumar, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Further, innovations that offer the adopters an opportunity to try on a small scale before full-scale implementation and whose effects are easily observable are more quickly adopted. Provisions of a trial period with an innovation pace up its adoption rate (Tiwari and Thakur, 2020). This clearly explains the positive association between innovation characteristics and environmental sustainability innovation diffusion.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…High Organizational Environment compared to the ideas that are perceived as complex and incompatible (Tiwari and Thakur, 2020). Similarly, innovations that offer advantages in terms of cost, efficiency and performance are more readily accepted and integrated into the social system (Chaudhary and Kumar, 2020).…”

Section: Low Organizational Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only a few studies have attempted to interlink the two but mostly in the hospitality and tourism industries. Among several available models, Roger’s (2003) diffusion of innovations approach has been extensively used to understand this relationship (Tiwari and Thakur, 2020; Greenland et al , 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovations and eco-sustainability: exploring the role of organizational environment

Chaudhary

Kumar

2021

SRJ

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Purpose This paper aims to analyze the contribution of the diffusion of innovation framework to eco-sustainability. It examines the interplay of organizational environment, innovation and innovation adopters’ characteristics on the diffusion of environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The data for empirical validation were obtained through an offline survey from the hospitals. The proposed conceptual framework was tested using the hierarchical regression analysis technique. Findings The results show that diffusion of innovation characteristics and organizational environment significantly influence the environmental sustainability index. The adopters’ characteristics do not have any direct effect on the environmental sustainability but this effect becomes significant in the presence of a favorable organizational environment. Practical implications Focusing on innovations that offer an advantage over the existing processes, are compatible with the existing system, are uncomplicated and simple to implement and can be experimented before full implementation may greatly accelerate the adoption of eco-innovations in hospitals. Fostering an organizational environment where employees are encouraged and rewarded for contributing to sustainable innovations can play a substantial role in the implementation of environmental sustainability innovations. Originality/value This study is an original contribution as it advances the limited understanding of the predictors and moderators of environmental sustainability in hospitals.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Low Organizational Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovations and eco-sustainability: exploring the role of organizational environment

Chaudhary

Kumar

2021

SRJ

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“…Sustainable tourism has emerged as a reactive concept in response to many issues in the tourism sector, with the aim of inspiring locals to actively participate in tourism business (UNWTO, 2015;Zolfani et al, 2015). Sustainable tourism activities seek patterns for preserving attractive natural and cultural heritage sites by educating visitors to respect local traditions that would enhance the locals' well-being (Jayashree and Aram, 2020;Tiwari and Thakur, 2021). Tourism should be a package for economic and environmental benefit for the local community and the visitors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%