Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

Mazzi, Anna; Toniolo, Sara; Manzardo, Alessandro; Ren, Jingzheng; Scipioni, Antonio

doi:10.3390/su8111200

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“…Due to the differences in the results, it is interesting to quote an in-depth literature review by Mazzi et al [126]. They analysed papers published in scientific journals between 2000 and 2015, concerning the direction of the relationship between the environmental and business performances of enterprises from various fields.…”

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“…It was concluded that it is not possible to find an answer to the "Porter-Wagner dilemma" (is the environment a "strategic competitive factor", as in the "Porter point of view", or is it a "luxury good", as in the "Wagner point of view"?). The main reason for the unclear results was-according to Mazzi et al [126]-the adoption of different indicators, which could not be overcome even by rigorous methods of analysis. It seems that clear and comparable results can be obtained only with the use of universal indicators.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Relations between Agri-Environmental, Economic and Social Dimensions of Farms’ Sustainability

2018

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Attempts to measure sustainability of farms are usually based on indicators of a set of sustainability dimensions. According to the literature, analyses should (but quite often do not) cover not only the level, but also the relations between the sustainability dimensions, because we could expect complementarity, synergies or competition between the sustainability goals. The aim of this paper was to measure and assess the interdependencies between dimensions of farms’ sustainability. The research was carried out on 601 farms that participate in the Polish Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), with the use of standard FADN data supported by additional information from interviews. Based on many variables, economic, environmental, social, and composite sustainability indices were collected. From the correlation and correspondence analyses it was concluded that the farms reached the balance of all three dimensions simultaneously when the level of sustainability indices was medium, while a high level of sustainability in one dimension made it very difficult to reach a high level in the others. It was also emphasized that assessing farms’ sustainability with the use of a simple aggregation of variables may be not correct since sustainability goals may compete with each other.

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Relations between Agri-Environmental, Economic and Social Dimensions of Farms’ Sustainability

2018

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“…One study [43] mentioned that "88% of consumers said they were more likely to buy from a company that supports and engages in activities to improve society (CSR activities)". Mazzi et al [44] mentioned that the relationship between environmental performance (EP) and business performance (BP) is even more relevant from the firms' perspective, since companies have great interest in learning about the economic benefits of environmental responsibility. In the case of Airbnb Inc., the hosts and guests both benefit by increasingly participating in the social platforms of the sharing economy through collaborative consumption and even CSR events [45].…”

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No Money? No Problem! The Value of Sustainability: Social Capital Drives the Relationship among Customer Identification and Citizenship Behavior in Sharing Economy

Wang

2017

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Abstract:This work provides a novel approach to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept and to CSR activities, using social capital as the driver of consumer citizenship behavior in the sharing economy business system. An online consumer questionnaire was carried out in Taiwan to examine seven proposed hypotheses to investigate the factors affecting behavior intention. The sample includes 445 participants and investigated their consumer citizenship behavior in response to companies' participation in CSR activities and sharing of economic opportunities, in this case, Airbnb Inc. This study uses structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the data. The result explores a new form of entrepreneurship marketing strategy and indicates that CSR has a positive effect on consumer-company (C-C) identification and the perceived value of sustainability. This study also establishes that social capital is the key mediator of the relationship between C-C identification and the perceived value of sustainability in consumer citizenship behavior. This research contributes to the idea that marketers should build well-designed CSR activities and deliver the perceived value of sustainability and consumer identification through social capital accumulation, which has proven to positively increase consumer citizenship behavior in the sharing economy environment. Consequently, the authors can suggest that entrepreneurs/executives should understand that CSR affects the perception of sustainability, consumer-company identification and improve consumer citizenship behavior. Most importantly, CSR activities focusing on sustainability issues and operating with social capital may lower costs and improve efficiencies as well. This finding could be viewed as a pioneering benchmark for further research.

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“…By considering the generation mechanism and the process of innovation performance in manufacturing enterprises with regard to customer preference and by referring to the existing literatures [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], in this paper we divide indicators for innovation performance in manufacturing enterprises into three categories: innovation process performance, that is, the efficiency of innovation activities; innovation output performance, that is, the effect of innovation activities; and innovation performance for customers' green preferences. In the end, the index is summed up respectively, as shown in Table 1.…”

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Selection of Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Design Project Based on Consumer’s Green Preferences

Jie

Song

2019

Sustainability

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For enterprise, how to quickly realize the selection of green innovative design projects has become a key issue for improving innovation performance. Based on an analysis of enterprise product innovation and customer green preferences, an indicator set for innovation performance in enterprise was established. Considering the fuzziness of the correlation between indicators for innovation performance in enterprise and consumer’s green preferences, a fuzzy clustering method was used to identify the internal relations among the indicators for innovation performance with green preferences of customers. Then a wavelet neural network was used to select the innovation design project for various green preferences of customers. Finally, a case study was proposed to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the method. This work can help the enterprise to develop green design, products, and serve uniformly, which can effectively shorten green product development cycles, reduce cost, and improve enterprise innovation performance greatly.

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Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

Cited by 31 publications

References 112 publications

Relations between Agri-Environmental, Economic and Social Dimensions of Farms’ Sustainability

Relations between Agri-Environmental, Economic and Social Dimensions of Farms’ Sustainability

No Money? No Problem! The Value of Sustainability: Social Capital Drives the Relationship among Customer Identification and Citizenship Behavior in Sharing Economy

Selection of Manufacturing Enterprise Innovation Design Project Based on Consumer’s Green Preferences

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