Key survival issues: Practical steps toward corporate environmental sustainability

Robinson, Steve

doi:10.1016/s1066-7938(00)80118-9

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“…Understanding the reasons why new firms fail and what they need to operate their businesses smoothly, particularly during the post-entrepreneurial phase is important in decreasing the high failure rate of new firms. Penrose (1995), Robinson (2000) and Wang and Liu (2006) indicate that the resources for startup success play a decisive role and become a Journal of Business Research xxx (2015) xxx-xxx ☆ The authors are grateful for Chiung-Wen Hsu's guidance on the data analysis and insightful input on the research framework. vital necessity for new firm survival.…”

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Constructing business incubation service capabilities for tenants at post-entrepreneurial phase

Lai

Lin

2015

Journal of Business Research

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Constructing business incubation service capabilities for tenants at post-entrepreneurial phase

Lai

Lin

2015

Journal of Business Research

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“…Many managers have a positive attitude towards EM and are aware that activities may improve their results, but only a few businesses convert this into proactive environmental behaviour (Gadenne et al ., ) as they prefer short‐term profit over longer‐term (environmental) benefits (Sangle, ). With more environmental engagement and by applying standards, businesses can contribute to the overall goal of sustainable development (Schmidheiny, ; Shrivastava, , ; Shrivastava and Hart, ; Robinson, ).…”

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Sustainable Development in the Transport Sector: Influencing Environmental Behaviour and Performance

Oberhofer

Fürst

2012

Bus Strat Env

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Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy are becoming increasingly important in the development of business strategies. Consequently, corporate road freight transport comes under particular scrutiny due to its substantial impact on the environment. This paper explores the implementation of environmental management in the Austrian road freight transport sector. A model based on an extensive literature review is developed and adapted to show the impact of attitude, company size and sector affiliation. It is tested using data from a quantitative survey. Based on an extensive literature review a model of influencing factors is developed and tested using data from a quantitative survey. According to our findings, we adopted the model with respect to the impact of attitude, company size and sector affiliation. Although decision‐makers' attitudes have a significant influence on the companies' actual environmental performance, firm size and sector affiliation are shown to have a far greater influence. It is therefore necessary to offer external incentives and support in order to improve environmental behaviour, especially among smaller and transport companies. Such instruments, however, need to be aligned on an international basis and across industries to prevent friction and competitive disadvantage. In addition to policy intervention (legal restrictions and incentives) and improvements on a corporate level, consumer awareness should be raised in order to create public pressure for companies to implement environmental management. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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“…Business corporations have traditionally been conceptualised as economic entities with the main responsibility for producing goods and providing services as efficiently as possible. With the advent of the sustainable development paradigm in the early 1980s, corporations began to move away from their narrow economic conception of responsibility and to make profound strategic adjustments in response to environmental pressures and changing societal expectations (Robinson, 2000). The 1990s have witnessed a new shift in paradigms inspired in part by a growing appreciation of the need to transition from environmental management to broader sustainability management.…”

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Corporate social responsibility and the challenge of triple bottom line integration: insights from the Lebanese context

Jamali¹,

Mezher²,

Bitar³

2006

IJESD

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The notion of sustainability has been evolving and is increasingly understood to encompass considerations of economic viability, as well as environmental sustainability and social responsibility. This paper examines how linking these three legs of sustainability remains a challenge and explores empirically the performance of a sample of Lebanese organisations in the three strands of responsibility. The findings suggest that organisations in a developing country context report challenges in maintaining a sustainable performance on the three dimensions, respectively and that Triple Bottom Line (TBL) integration remains a distant aspiration. Recommendations for enhancing the sustainability performance of companies are provided as well as practical suggestions and insights into how to improve the prospects of TBL integration.

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Key survival issues: Practical steps toward corporate environmental sustainability

Cited by 23 publications

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Constructing business incubation service capabilities for tenants at post-entrepreneurial phase

Constructing business incubation service capabilities for tenants at post-entrepreneurial phase

Sustainable Development in the Transport Sector: Influencing Environmental Behaviour and Performance

Corporate social responsibility and the challenge of triple bottom line integration: insights from the Lebanese context

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