Environmental Business–NGO Partnerships in Nigeria: Issues and Prospects

Idemudia, Uwafiokun

doi:10.1002/bse.1915

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“…However, the study provides illustrations of industrial GPI collaborations. An interesting setting for future studies could be environmental non‐governmental organization collaborations (Idemudia, ). An unexplored avenue seems to be combining collaborative GPI and collaborative environmental process innovation (Bönte and Dienes, ).…”

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Customer and Supplier Collaboration in Green Product Innovation: External and Internal Capabilities

2018

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Firms collaborate in green product innovation to develop products with less environmental impact. These products typically use less energy, have lower emissions and incorporate more environmentally friendly materials. In an industrial setting, firms often collaborate along the supply chain with customers and suppliers. This paper focuses on external and internal capabilities that firms need when collaborating in green product innovation. The paper builds on data from five large industrial firms in ten case studies, in which these firms collaborate with customers and suppliers to innovate green products to an industrial market. External and internal capabilities are investigated. The study points to the importance of finding a suitable partner. Partners need to have environmental expertise and contribute knowledge or technology that is new to the firm. Firms need to combine relational capabilities, such as trust, with contractual agreements in collaborative innovations. The findings point to the importance of knowledge management with the partner as well as internally in the firm. The study shows that no partner collaboration operates in isolation but is situated in a network context. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Customer and Supplier Collaboration in Green Product Innovation: External and Internal Capabilities

2018

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“…Third, philanthropic initiatives may be undertaken by some firms for purely altruistic reasons in the form of ‘giving back to society’ (McLachlan and Binns, ). Managers and owners view addressing societal challenges as akin to good citizenry (Nyahunzvi, ; Idemudia, ).…”

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Institutional Antecedents of the Corporate Social Responsibility Narrative in the Developing World Context: Implications for Sustainable Development

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Efforts to understand the background to perceptions and manifestation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the developing world need to focus on establishing their link with the challenges of socio‐economic governance and societal expectations and cultural traditions. This signifies a departure from a western centric understanding of CSR but also an over‐focus on CSR as philanthropy. This study considers the Malawian tourism industry and finds that its colonial legacy, post‐colonialism development thinking and the national education system explain the prevalence of a ‘CSR as philanthropy’ agenda. When these factors interact with challenges of socio‐economic governance and societal expectations, however, the universality thesis that has often been associated with the theory and implementation CSR can be challenged. These findings therefore suggest a shift from the western centric CSR thinking to a CSR perspective that is strongly grounded in local values and norms and which meets the expectations of the global society. This indicates a way forward if CSR is to be adequately institutionalized in the developing world. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…Business–NGOs partnerships have been considered a critical condition and vehicle for sustainable development (Idemudia, ). Thus, the role of NGOs in promoting environmental sustainability in SMEs cannot be understated.…”

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Environmental support programmes for small businesses: A systematic literature review

Oguntoye

Quartey

2019

Bus Strat Dev

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The purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of the performance of environmental support programmes for small businesses. With growing interests in promoting environmental sustainability among small businesses, developing a better understanding of environmental support programmes has become critical. Previous studies have investigated specific cases of environmental support programmes for small businesses. However, their findings are yet to be galvanised in a manner that improves our understanding of environmental support programmes for small businesses. This study addresses the gap in the literature by systematically reviewing 25 key journal articles and synthesizing their main findings. The findings from the deductive thematic analysis revealed that support provider/sponsor, client context, programme scope, capacity development, complementary support, service delivery network, and regulation influence the performance of environmental support programmes for small businesses. These findings highlight the ongoing efforts in developing and developed countries to promote environmental practices in small businesses. We, therefore, encourage sustainability and small business researchers to go beyond the design and implementation and focus more attention on how to improve the performance of environmental support programmes for small businesses.

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Environmental Business–NGO Partnerships in Nigeria: Issues and Prospects

Cited by 31 publications

References 38 publications

Customer and Supplier Collaboration in Green Product Innovation: External and Internal Capabilities

Customer and Supplier Collaboration in Green Product Innovation: External and Internal Capabilities

Institutional Antecedents of the Corporate Social Responsibility Narrative in the Developing World Context: Implications for Sustainable Development

Environmental support programmes for small businesses: A systematic literature review

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