The role of corporate reputation and employees' values in the uptake of energy efficiency in office buildings

Pellegrini‐Masini, Giuseppe; Leishman, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.05.023

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“…Large companies in particular, are perceived as willing to cultivate a green image. The business with an ethical stand/green image may seems to be more appealing to customers and investors [75]. Due to the limited or inconsistent cost-benefit data regarding SB [3], industry practitioners may be uncertain about the direct economic return of SB and may be more concerned with the long-term strategic benefits brought about SB projects.…”

Section: Social and Cultural Aspectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Factors Influencing Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Buildings

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Despite significant policy drives, the wide adoption of sustainable building (SB) is hindered by factors such as high upfront cost and long payback period. Business model (BM) innovation is therefore highly demanded to help SB professionals to cope with the challenges and convert the value of SB into profit. Nevertheless, few studies examined BM innovation in the building sector and factors influencing BM innovation for SB are unclear. This paper aims to identify the critical factors that propel companies to innovate BM for SB. First, a literature review and expert interviews were conducted to identify and filter the drivers for BM innovation within the SB context. Second, a questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data on the significance of the selected influencing factors from 132 SB professionals. Finally, a model based on fuzzy set theory was used to ascertain the critical factors influencing BM innovation for SB. Twenty-four critical influencing factors in six categories from the external environment and internal organization were finalized, namely, market and economic, policy and legislation, technology and industry structure, social-culture, entrepreneurship, and organizational learning. The findings illuminate the motivations when developing BM for sustainability and provide strategies on BM innovation for practitioners and policy makers.

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Section: Social and Cultural Aspectmentioning

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“…Doran and Ryan (2012) have shown identified that voluntary agreement has the largest impact on eco-innovations' implementation in firms, while firms are willing to pay to brand themselves as eco-friendly. To conclude, expected gain of firm reputation stemming from engagement in eco-innovations is recognized as an important driver for companies' implementation of eco-innovations (Eiadat et al 2008;Hillestad et al 2010;Pellegrini-Masini and Leishman 2011;Holtbrügge and Dögl 2012).…”

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“…Firm reputation seems to be stronger driver of green practices in developed countries than in developing ones (Govin-dan et al 2014). Several researchers have identified corporate image and reputation as one of the strongest drivers of environmental activities (Eiadat et al 2008;Hillestad et al 2010;Pellegrini-Masini and Leishman 2011;Holtbrügge and Dögl 2012;Klewitz et al 2012;Agan et al 2013).…”

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“…-enhanced / improved firm reputation (Le et al 2006;Kemp and Foxon 2007;Eiadat et al 2008;Dangelico and Pujari 2010;Hillestad et al 2010;Lewis and Cassells 2010;Pellegrini-Masini and Leishman 2011;Doran and Ryan 2012;Holtbrügge and Dögl 2012;Klewitz et al 2012;Agan et al 2013;Chen 2013;Sarkar 2013 (Le et al 2006;Lewis and Cassells 2010;Horbach et al 2012).…”

Section: Expected Benefits and Eco-innovationmentioning

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In Persuit of Eco-innovation. Drivers and Consequences of Eco-innovation at Firm Level

Hojnik¹

2017

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“…In the UK's dominant mode of speculative office building development (Deloitte Real Estate, 2014;Pellegrini-Masini & Leishman, 2011), where buildings are built in advance of securing tenants, such buildings have historically been 'over-specified in order to make them more attractive to institutional investors [and] … easier to let to suitable tenants' (Van de Wetering & Wyatt, 2011, p. 32) This has particularly required the 'over-specifying' of: small-power provision and comfort cooling services … promoted by property agents … even though the specification did not bear any resemblance to what most occupiers actually needed from their office buildings. … This misguided attempt at designing in redundancy … resulted in more expensive and more energy intensive office buildings.…”

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Energy-related standards and UK speculative office development

Cass

2017

Building Research & Information

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Non-domestic buildings have great potential for energy-related emission reductions in response to climate change. However, high-specification office buildings in the UK demonstrate that regulation, assessment and certification ('standards') have not incentivized the development of lower-energy office buildings as expected. Making use of the concepts of 'qualculation' and 'calculative agency', qualitative case studies of 10 speculatively developed office buildings in London, UK, provide new insight into why this is the case. Interview data (n = 57) are used to illustrate how 'market standards' substitute for user needs, and ratchet up the provision of building services to maximize marketability competitively. The examples of energy modelling and the market's (mis)use of British Council for Offices guidelines are used to explain how such standards perversely bolster energy-demanding levels of specification and building services, and militate against lowerenergy design, in the sector researched. The potentials for alternative, performance-based standards and new industry norms of quality are discussed. It is concluded that at least the London speculative office market by its very constitution and operation, including the reliance on standards, continues to create increasingly energy-demanding buildings.

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The role of corporate reputation and employees' values in the uptake of energy efficiency in office buildings

Cited by 29 publications

References 39 publications

Critical Factors Influencing Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Buildings

Critical Factors Influencing Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Buildings

In Persuit of Eco-innovation. Drivers and Consequences of Eco-innovation at Firm Level

Energy-related standards and UK speculative office development

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