Sustainable development in companies: Theoretical dream or implementable reality?

Naude, Marita

doi:10.22495/cocv8i4c3art4

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“…Before the recent gain in momentum for the implementation of the CE, organizations including PSOs demonstrated growing interest in engaging in sustainability activities [30]. The concept of sustainability was judged as vague and lacking clear implementation methodologies, and thus has seen a loss of momentum in recent years [31]. Moreover, the relationship between sustainability and CE has not been clearly defined in the research [32].…”

Section: Organizational Sustainability Perspective Of Psosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

2020

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The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.

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Section: Organizational Sustainability Perspective Of Psosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

2020

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“…"Entity's vision and mission" was the strategic area where entities most admitted to having integrated CE (15.8%). Considering how sustainable development operationalization is best achieved through CE practices [7,9] and, according to Naudé [26], only when companies align sustainable development with business vision and strategy can it be successfully implemented, our results suggest that entities from the studied regions are on track to achieve sustainable development. The second most quoted strategic area was "environmental policy or environmental management system" (14.7%).…”

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confidence: 89%

Integration of the Circular Economy Paradigm in Companies from the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula

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Over recent decades, Circular Economy (CE) has become a major topic when organizations try to develop their business amid the constrains of resource limitation and the desire to reduce their environmental impact. This study’s main purpose is to assess the integration of CE practices in public and private organizations in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Through an online survey distributed to 294 companies from the cited region, we assessed their perceptions on CE, including such aspects as the area(s) it was integrated in, why, with what difficulties or what was necessary to accomplish it, and how the impact of the implemented CE practices was measured. Results showed that companies associate CE mostly with “resource optimization”. “Entity’s vision and mission” was the main strategic area where CE was implemented. The main motivation why entities/organizations embraced CE was “environmental reasons”, while “lack of information and guidance” and “lack of financial resources” represented the main obstacles to CE implementation. Non-parametrical statistical tests were used to compare the answers of three groups of people with different positions within the company/entity (manager, executive, and technician), as well as to compare the answers of two activity sectors (industry and services).

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“…Meanwhile, UNEP defines CE as a concept which uses a green economy approach that aims to reduce the carbon economy [1]. On the other hand, [27] stated that CE is only 'a theoretical discourse in a dream', since it is very difficult to implement in the real world. In the future, managers will be faced with the challenge to improve practical and realistic implementation of sustainable development in the business context that is constantly changing.…”

Section: Circular Economymentioning

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The Influence of Green Culture and Green Strategy on the Circular Economy Implementation: The Moderating Role of Green Intellectual Capital

Muafi¹

2021

IJSDP

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This study aims to analyze the relationship between Green Culture (GC) and Green Strategy (GS) on the Circular Economy (CE) implementation. It also aims to analyze the moderating tole of Green Intellectual Capital (IC) on the relationship. The type of this study is quantitative research, and the data is collected through questionnaire. The respondents of this study are the owner or manager, or owner and manager of Batik MSMEs in Klaten, Central Java Province. The respondents are chosen purposively with certain criteria. The data is analyzed using Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The results of this study found that GC and GS partially influence the CE implementation. Green IC cannot moderate the relationship between GC and the CE implementation, but on the contrary, Green IC is able to moderate the influence of GS on the CE implementation.

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Sustainable development in companies: Theoretical dream or implementable reality?

Cited by 24 publications

References 67 publications

Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

Integration of the Circular Economy Paradigm in Companies from the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula

The Influence of Green Culture and Green Strategy on the Circular Economy Implementation: The Moderating Role of Green Intellectual Capital

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