Strategic sustainability management and export performance

Abstract

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyze the practices of strategic sustainability management and the main indicators of export performance in industrial companies of the rubber artifacts sector. Design/methodology/approach -The study characterizes itself as descriptive and quantitative and has had the intention to analyze the main practices of strategic sustainability management and the export performance indicators in companies of the artifacts and rubbers sector of the States of São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. For this, one has carried out a survey with companies of the rubber sector. The conceptual model adopted in the study is made up of a set of variables related to the strategic sustainability management and to the export performance. Findings -The main results have made evident that, in general, companies involve stakeholders and their employees in sustainable strategies; internationalize themselves via exports, by means of intermediaries in Brazil and find themselves in an initial internationalization stage. Moreover, it is possible to maintain that most companies do not believe that sustainability is an initiative separated from company action. Practical implications -One recommends to the studied companies a greater commitment with the international strategies, organizing themselves to pressure the government to give a greater support to the studied sector, and a greater inclusion of sustainability in the organizational strategies, in order to improve their competitiveness in the local and international market. Originality/value -The analyzed data allowed identify the great importance of sustainability, with few barriers against their implementations. Furthermore, it is possible to say that the actions which are toward the practice of sustainability management helped positively for the export performance, confirming the hypotheses of this paper.

Benefits, challenges and opportunities of corporate sustainability

“…Moreover, it was found that the implementation of sustainable practices such as the development of products and processes through technological innovation increased the level of exports (Rocha-Vencato et al, 2014). This is consistent with Staub, Kaynak and Gokc (2015), who recommend developing innovative strategies for sustainable performance, particularly with regard to the organization's identity.…”

Impact of a Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System Tool to Improve Sustainable Development: Measuring the Mediation of Organizational Performance through PLS-Smart

“…A greater number of organizations than ever before have started focusing on the idea of sustainability as their natural process of the strategy being executed in order to make sustainability a routine matter of the organization [78]. Resultant social and environmental domains of sustainability also attracted the attention of researchers alongside the economic domain.…”

“…Also, performance outcomes encourage organizations to fulfill their commitments towards environmental sustainability. In a nutshell, there is an opportunity for investigating the relationship between BSC and organizational performance with perspective to control and growth [94] and even to explore the relationship between organizational performance and environmental sustainability [64,78,95]. Figure 2 shows the research framework signifying the hypothesis postulated in order to understand the possible links among variables.…”

Organisational determinants of export performance: evidence from exporting firms in Batam, Indonesia

“…As a result, more and more firms strive to internationalise their operations (da Rocha Vencato et al, 2014). Firms pursue internationalisation in order to, among other things, obtain the benefits of production at lower costs, reduce/diversify risk, and to widen their markets (Czinkota and Ronkainen, 2001).…”