Progress from Blue to the Green World: Multilevel Governance for Pollution Prevention Planning and Sustainability

Awan, Usama; Krasławski, Andrzej; Huiskonen, Janne

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_177-1

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“…Research tends to suggest that collaborative relationships impact the firm knowledge base and SPIs. According to Awan [26], a governance model is rational on how firms achieve sustainability objectives. Similarly, Lee [27] examined the relationship between responsible supply chains and supplier SPIs in the Asian context.…”

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Buyer-Driven Knowledge Transfer Activities to Enhance Organizational Sustainability of Suppliers

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Despite the significant contribution of buyer-driven knowledge transfer activities (BDKTAs) to innovation and operational performance, studies that analyze social sustainability in manufacturing (suppliers) firms are still scarce. This paper examines the mediation relationship of knowledge acquisition and investment in environmental management between BDKTAs and social performance improvements (SPIs). The paper contributes to the understanding of buyer knowledge transfer activities, with a focus on the knowledge acquisition capabilities and investments in environmental management, and the effect on SPIs. The hypotheses were examined with partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with data collected from 239 firms. Buyer knowledge transfer activities are likely to increase the willingness of suppliers to make specific environmental investments into operations in waste reduction procedures, the recycling of materials, and pollution prevention training of employees. We proposed that buyer knowledge transfer activities are necessary to survive and grow and thus there is a need to acquire knowledge resources to achieve organizational sustainability. Buyer knowledge transfer activities are necessary to make investment decisions in environmental management programs. Firms that focus on buyer knowledge transfer activities and internal investments into environmental management can attain sustainability objectives.

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“…In comparison, it required a multilevel governance framework to involve all stakeholders in the green development project to attain economic profit (Awan 2020a ). Based on the realization of environmental sustainability, a higher need to focus on the social sustainability agenda is pivotal for long-term sustainable policies (Awan et al 2020a , b ). In addition, technology innovation helps to improve environmental quality and sustainable growth (Cheng et al 2021 ).…”

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Financial development, oil resources, and environmental degradation in pandemic recession: to go down in flames

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The novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a deadly disease that increases global healthcare sufferings. Further, it affects the financial and natural resource market simultaneously, as both are considered complementary goods. The volatility in the oil prices deteriorates the global financial market to substantiate the “financial resource (oil) curse” hypothesis primarily filled with earlier studies. In contrast, this study moved forward and extended the given relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic in a panel of 81 different countries. The study’s main objective is to examine the volatility in the domestic credit provided to the private sector due to oil shocks and the COVID-19 pandemic across countries. The study is essential to assess the healthcare vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the damage of financial stability, causing deterioration in the oil rents to affect the global sustainability agenda. The study employed statistical techniques to get sound inferences of the parameter estimates, including robust least squares regression, seemingly unrelated regression, and innovation accounting matrix to get a variable estimate at the level and inter-temporal framework. The results confirmed the U-shaped relationship between oil rents and financial development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it verifies the “financial resource (oil) curse” hypothesis at the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later down, it supports the capital market when economies are resuming their economic activities and maintaining the SOPs to restrain coronavirus at a global scale. The qualitative assessment confirmed the negative effect of financial development and oil shocks on environmental quality during the pandemic crisis. The innovation accounting matrix shows that the COVID-19 pandemic will primarily be the main factor that intervenes in the relationship between oil rents and financial development, which proceed towards the “resource curse” hypothesis during the following years’ time period. Therefore, the need for long-term economic policies is highly desirable to support the financial and resource market under the suggested guidelines of restraining coronavirus worldwide.

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“…The enormous increase in global average temperature puts high pressure on implementing green and clean environmental policies, which need to attain ‘industrial ecology.’ This is the newly emerging concept that allows interactive human actions with growth sustainable opportunities to reduce industrial wastes and encourage closed-loop production (Awan 2020a ). The globalized world strives hard to devise sustainable policies to shift from blue to green (Awan et al 2020 ). The emerging global issue is the high-level smog cause of negative healthcare sustainability.…”

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The impact of coal combustion, nitrous oxide emissions, and traffic emissions on COVID-19 cases: a Markov-switching approach

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Khan

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread to more than 200 countries with a current case fatality ratio (CFR) of more than 2% globally. The concentration of air pollutants is considered a critical factor responsible for transmitting coronavirus disease among the masses. The photochemical process and coal combustions create respiratory disorders that lead to coronavirus disease. Based on the crucial fact, the study evaluated the impact of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions, coal combustion, and traffic emissions on COVID-19 cases in a panel of 39 most affected countries of the world. These three air pollution factors are considered to form a lethal smog that negatively affects the patient’s respiratory system, leading to increased susceptibility to coronavirus worldwide. The study used the Markov two-step switching regime regression model for obtaining parameter estimates. In contrast, an innovation accounting matrix is used to assess smog factors’ intensity on possibly increasing coronavirus cases over time. The results show that N 2 O emissions, coal combustion, and traffic emissions increase COVID-19 cases in regime-1. On the other hand, N2O emissions significantly increase coronavirus cases in regime-2. The innovation accounting matrix shows that N2O emissions would likely have a more significant share of increasing coronavirus cases with a variance of 33.902%, followed by coal combustion (i.e., 6.643%) and traffic emissions (i.e., 2.008%) over the time horizon. The study concludes that air quality levels should be maintained through stringent environmental policies, such as carbon pricing, sustainable urban planning, green technology advancement, renewable fuels, and pollution less accessible vehicles. All these measures would likely decrease coronavirus cases worldwide.

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Progress from Blue to the Green World: Multilevel Governance for Pollution Prevention Planning and Sustainability

Cited by 52 publications

References 72 publications

Buyer-Driven Knowledge Transfer Activities to Enhance Organizational Sustainability of Suppliers

Buyer-Driven Knowledge Transfer Activities to Enhance Organizational Sustainability of Suppliers

Financial development, oil resources, and environmental degradation in pandemic recession: to go down in flames

The impact of coal combustion, nitrous oxide emissions, and traffic emissions on COVID-19 cases: a Markov-switching approach

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