Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Structuring the Decision-Making Support in a Public Transport Company

Teles, Maria de Fátima; Sousa, Jorge Freire de

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“…This is made by using a General Morphological Analysis to bridge the gap between OR analysts, decision-makers and stakeholders, making all of them part of the problem structuring and formulation process. In order to deal with a variety of pertinent issues identified in different approaches at the organizational level, we proposed a framework aiming to support decision-making and appraisal of corporate environmental strategies and subsequent management approaches [9,10]. But there was the need of a methodology for structuring multi-objective problems involving multi-stakeholder environmental decision-making in a participatory context.…”

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“…The work described in this paper is part of a broader research project aiming (i) to provide a methodology or framework to support and evaluate corporate environmental strategies and management approaches; (ii) to propose a methodological approach for structuring multi-objective problems involving multi-stakeholder decision-making in a participatory context, searching for value co-creation from both societal and corporate perspectives; (iii) to apply the theoretical conclusions drawn from the previous objectives to a case study in the context of a bus public transport company [9]. In order to deal with a variety of pertinent issues identified in different approaches -though at the organizational level -we developed a framework aiming to promote the integration of environmental policies in the strategy of a company [10].…”

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An Operations Research-Based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making

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Sousa

2016

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. In this paper the authors present a meta-model aiming to support decision-makers that wish to know more about how to use systems models to cope with the integration of environmental concerns into the company strategy. This is made by using a General Morphological Analysis (GMA) to bridge the gap between Operations Research (OR) analysts, decision-makers and stakeholders, making all of them part of the problem structuring and formulation process, particularly in societal issues like the environmental ones. The novelty of this approach is two-fold: (i) there are no examples in literature of a GMA research that address a linkage between environmental practices, strategic objectives, and the integration of stakeholders in the decision-making process at the level of a company; (ii) there is no GMA that had covered all the phases of a decision-making problem (problem definition, problem analysis and problem solving) in such a context.

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An Operations Research-Based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making

Teles¹,

Sousa

2016

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…Many studies in the nonmarket literature have emphasised the significant influence of managerial interpretation on organisational environmental strategies (Teles & Sousa, ). In view of the importance of managerial factors to EPS development and implementation, several authors have called for more in‐depth studies of the individual factors that influence managers in the adoption of environmental strategies (Muposhi, ).…”

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An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Rivera

2019

Bus Strat Env

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This article responds to demands for a more in-depth study on how to implement an environmental policy strategy (EPS). Following the strategic choice framework, this study seeks to address this issue by testing a theoretical model of several managerial and organisational variables associated with a firm's EPS. The managerial variables examined include managers' perceptions of environmental pressures, managers' consciousness of environmental problems, and managers' perceptions of the potential benefits associated with the implementation of an EPS. The organisational variables that are investigated relate to the structure, systems, and processes of the representative organisations. Control variables include the firm's industrial sector, its country of origin, its size, and its international character. A model based on structural equations with the weighted least squares estimation method is used to test the hypotheses in a large sample of firms. The results confirm the need to consider a multidisciplinary view of the implementation of an EPS.

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“…There have been some attempts within the literature that tried applying relevant PSMs in resolving problem situations of a systemic-pluralist nature. SSM was jointly used with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for structuring multi-objective problems involving multi-stakeholder environmental decision-making for a public transport company [51]. The SSM approach was also innovatively deployed by Winter [52] at the front end of a Branch Specific Range (BSR) project for Tesco in the UK by distinguishing the content of the problem situation and activity planning.…”

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Systems Thinking Using SSM and TRIZ for Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Megaprojects

Sergeeva

Phillips

Sankaran

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Infrastructure megaprojects straddle multiple stakeholder boundaries who have an interest in the project and are affected by the project. Multiple papers in the literature stress the need for holistic approaches to stakeholder engagement, as existing approaches only address the concerns of the noisy stakeholders. This research proposes an innovative approach in which Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is used for understanding stakeholder concerns, complemented by the use of Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) for identifying innovative solutions to address conflicting stakeholder goals. The researchers simulated the stakeholder engagement of the Coimbatore metro rail project, in India, through a workshop setting in a classroom to check the feasibility of this approach for stakeholder engagement. The 15 participants of the workshop were divided into four groups representing different stakeholders of the project. Data was collected through participant observations by the authors and oral feedback from the participants. The results show that while SSM helped to capture the concerns and goals of each stakeholder, TRIZ helped to identify and dissolve conflicts among these goals through innovative solutions. The theoretical, practical and pedagogical contributions are highlighted.

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Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Structuring the Decision-Making Support in a Public Transport Company

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An Operations Research-Based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making

An Operations Research-Based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making

An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Systems Thinking Using SSM and TRIZ for Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Megaprojects

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