Innovation process of new ventures driven by sustainability

Keskin, Duygu; Diehl, Jan Carel; Molenaar, Nelliene

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.05.012

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“…The contribution of small businesses towards sustainability is observed through internal and external attributes including ownership structure, business culture and employees knowledge despite of these barriers. Therefore, small businesses have perceived sustainability and adopted sustainability business practices as a moral obligation to local populace (Keskin, Diehl & Molenaar, 2013). It has been examined that instigation of sustainability practices endowed small businesses to eradicate costs.…”

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The Role of Small Businesses (Small Scale Economic Projects) in Alleviating the Acuity of Unemployment

Elimam¹

2017

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Small businesses are the essential constituents in the development of economy and generating employment opportunities within country. Unemployment is the major concern, which is spreading its roots in various forms and dimensions. The objective of the study was to examine the role of small businesses in alleviating the acuity of unemployment rate. Quantitative approach has been utilized to examine the role of small businesses. Therefore, data was collected from general statistics, directorate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the years 2005-2013. Multiple Regression Analysis using the time series approach has been implemented to analyze the gathered information through SPSS version 20.0. The findings have stated that there was a significant impact of small projects on the unemployment rate of Saudi Arabia (p=0.097). Furthermore, statistically insignificant results were revealed for amount of funding variable (p=0.451). A negative relationship has been determined between unemployment rate and amount of funding; while positive and direct relationship was determined between unemployment rate and population. Small businesses are vital in escalating the economy of the country and sustaining the environmental protection. However, small businesses must amend themselves according to the strategies devised for large projects to contribute more to alleviate unemployment rate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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The Role of Small Businesses (Small Scale Economic Projects) in Alleviating the Acuity of Unemployment

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2017

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“…Therefore, our study leads us to suggest that organizations should built sustainability aspects into tangible and intangible product/process quality characteristics, through a constant focus on stakeholders' wants and needs, and on the basis of principles of continuous improvement. However, one can argue that organizations are confronted with creating value by identifying an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals, i.e., translating sustainability goals into product features that contribute to the customer value (Keskin et al, 2013). Owing to the above-explained complexities in managing sustainability, recent studies (e.g.…”

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Effect of sustainability-oriented innovation practices on the overall organisational performance: an empirical examination

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Dahlgaard‐Park

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Total Quality Management & Business Excellence

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One major means to address corporate sustainability practices in organizations are sustainability-oriented innovation practices, which tend to result in significantly improved products, services, processes or even management systems. Prior research has widely discussed the relevant issues about integrating sustainability aspects into innovation process; however, little empirical research has been conducted to analyse the link between sustainability-oriented innovation practices and the overall organizational performance. This paper addresses this gap by exploring underlying structure of sustainability-oriented innovation practices as well as their effects on the particular performance dimensions (i.e., economic performance, quality performance, innovation performance, environmental performance and social performance). The large scale web-based survey yielded 266 usable responses encompassing both the manufacturing and service industries across five countries: Germany, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain. The results of the regression analysis demonstrate that sustainability-oriented innovation practices are positively related with the overall organizational performance. The empirical evidence suggests that when organizations strongly emphasize sustainability practices they can improve both economic and non-financial performance. From a practical perspective, the findings of the study may provide a clue regarding how organizations can embed sustainability aspects in their innovation processes with the aim of improving their performance.

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“…Both the role of the 'innovator' and the 'innovation development process' [69][70] have been highlighted as main success factors for sustainability-driven innovations. Osch and Avital [71] further illustrate that disrupting the current path for technology evolution is a matter of aligning innovation in technology with social changes, so that more sustainable options can be constructed.…”

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Introducing Sustainability in Value Models to Support Design Decision Making: A Systematic Review

Bertoni¹

2017

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Abstract:Manufacturing organizations shall recognize sustainability as a business occasion to capitalize on, rather than an undesirable pressing situation. Still, empirical evidence shows that such an opportunity is hard to capture and communicate in global strategic decisions, through planning by tactical management, to daily operational activities. This paper systematically reviews the modelling challenges at the cross-road of value and sustainability decisions making, spotlighting methods and tools proposed in literature to link sustainability to customer value creation at strategic, tactical and operational level. While statistical results show that the topic of sustainability and value modeling is trending in literature, findings from content analysis reveal that recent attempts to promote a value-based view in the sustainability discussion remains at a strategic level, with most of the proposed indicators being suited for managerial decision-making. The lack of support at operational level points to the opportunity of cross-pollinating sustainability research with value-centered methodologies originating from the aerospace sector. The Value Driven Design framework is proposed as main hub from which to derive models supporting engineers and technology developers in the identification of win-win-win situations, where sustainable improvements are aligned with business advantages.

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Innovation process of new ventures driven by sustainability

Cited by 139 publications

References 18 publications

The Role of Small Businesses (Small Scale Economic Projects) in Alleviating the Acuity of Unemployment

The Role of Small Businesses (Small Scale Economic Projects) in Alleviating the Acuity of Unemployment

Effect of sustainability-oriented innovation practices on the overall organisational performance: an empirical examination

Introducing Sustainability in Value Models to Support Design Decision Making: A Systematic Review

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