Human Factors, Business Excellence and Corporate Sustainability: Differing Perspectives, Joint Objectives

Zink, Klaus J.; Steimle, Ulrich; Fischer, Klaus

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2046-1_1

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“…Realizing more sustainable paths of economic and societal development requires changes of behavior and organizational as well as technological innovations (Zink et al, 2008). When ''sustainable development'' is understood as a politically enforced ''top-down approach,'' this does not really allow long-term and far-reaching changes (Imada, 2008).…”

Section: Change Management Knowledge For Sdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development

2010

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ABSTRACT. In a world of limited resources, it could be argued that companies that aspire to be good corporate citizens need to focus on making best use of resources. User value and environmental harm are created in supply chains and it could therefore be argued that company business ethics should be extended from the company to the entire value chain from the first supplier to the last customer. Starting with a delineation of the linkages between business ethics, corporate sustainability, and the stakeholder concept, this article argues that supply chains generally have a great innovation potential for sustainable development. This potential could be highlighted with system thinking and the use of change management knowledge, promoting not only innovations within technology but also within organizational improvement. We propose process models and performance indicators as means of highlighting improvement potential and thus breaking down normative business ethics' requirements to an opertionalizable corporate level: Good business ethics should focus on maximizing stakeholder value in relation to harm done. Our results indicate that focusing on supply chains reveals previously unknown innovation potential that seems to be related to limited system understanding. The assumption is that increased visibility of opportunities will act as a driver for change. Results also highlight the importance of focusing on sustainability effects of the core business and clearly relating value created to harm done.

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Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development

2010

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“…As lumber has been used as a main source of construction and energy production during periods of population growth, such uses lead people to think about the finite nature of the forest, which is related to the concept of sustainable forestry [25]. Research on the social aspect of sustainability focuses on improvements in quality of life and well-being, such as job opportunities, the enhancement of relationships inside and outside of an organization, democratic activities and the responsibility of governments and citizens to do sustainable activities [21,26].…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

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Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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Nowadays, the horse industry can be considered as an important industry in European countries and has a major role in agricultural industry throughout the world. Although today the diversity of the horse-related companies provides new markets and business opportunities, there are also some sustainable issues which needs to be addressed. Therefore, this study contributes to this research gap by reviewing the concept of sustainability and existing approaches to find sustainable solutions for companies. These sustainable approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the product-service-system (PSS), circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS). Although there seems to be a growing understanding of sustainable approaches and their role in sustainable development, there is a lack of research at the empirical level regarding the types of sustainability approaches (i.e., technologies, services, products and business models) that evolve in specific industries. The empirical data in this research have been collected from a cross-section of Finnish horse industry operators to determine how willing companies are to exploit approaches to sustainable solutions, as well as what the existing sustainable solutions are in this industry. The response rate of this study is approximately 24 percent, including 139 received valid responses among the sample of 580 operators.

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“…Zink et al [4] states that, "Both concepts represent extreme positions and cannot be seen as directly applicable for our present way to sustainable development".…”

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“…Within this approach, substitute of natural capital is possible in a partial way. It is necessary to define critical values of the availability of individual capital goods and to not cross these critical values [4,6,7]. Other concepts of sustainability are based upon the so called "three-pillar" or "triple bottom line" (Fig.…”

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Development of a location-factor-matrix for sustainable business locations

Pajones¹,

Steiner²,

Hackner-Jaklin³

2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Modern company strategies show that the issue of sustainability, for example in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, became a significant aspect. However, related to the process of location planning, companies do not take sustainability into consideration. In consolidation of strategies in business economics, key objectives in spatial development and traffic planning, a sustainable business location should be generated. As no definition of the term "sustainable business area" exists so far, an inevitable step for further development is to create one, which is presented in this paper. Another aim is to identify essential location factors, which have an impact on the economic-, ecological-and social sustainability of business locations. A qualitative analysis of interdependencies demonstrates the substantial connections between these factors. In the course of an organized workshop, experts in freight logistics, spatial planning, traffic planning and sustainability discussed the essential location factors and their impact on sustainability. The output was a so called location-factormatrix for business locations. In a next step, the interdependencies among the defined location factors and their roles in the system have been indicated with the help of the impact matrix by Vester. Another substantial step further along the line will be the development of sustainability criteria or indices, which allow a classification of the business location. These findings will be an essential input for a location-factors-based evaluation and planning system.

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Human Factors, Business Excellence and Corporate Sustainability: Differing Perspectives, Joint Objectives

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development

Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

Development of a location-factor-matrix for sustainable business locations

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