The sweet spot in sustainability: a framework for corporate assessment in sugar manufacturing

Sureeyatanapas, Panitas; Yang, Jian‐Bo; Bamford, David

doi:10.1080/09537287.2015.1015470

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“…Such training includes safety, health and hygiene, acquisition of new skills and career advancement. Scholars (Poist, 1989;Andersen and Larsen, 2009;Sureeyatanapas et al, 2015) have emphasized the influence of employee education initiatives on supplier and supply chain performance. However, in developing countries, investment into education is yet be addressed, as it involves more monetary investment on suppliers.…”

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Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Mani

Gunasekaran

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Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability have been shown to span beyond organizational boundaries, indicating the importance of managing sustainability initiatives across the supply chain. Although scholars and practitioners focus a great deal of attention toward economic and environmental sustainability in supply chains, less attention is paid to social aspects. This is unfortunate, because social sustainability not only plays an important role in enabling other sustainability initiatives, but social injustices in one echelon of a supply chain can lead to significant losses for firms across the chain. Social issues have been especially problematic in developing nations, where abusive labor practices continue to negatively affect trading partners. This research seeks to disambiguate supply chain social sustainability in developing nations by uncovering relevant dimensions of social sustainability and resultant outcomes. Using semi-structured interview data collected from supply chain executives in Indian manufacturing companies, this research uncovers dimensions of social sustainability in terms of not only the focal firm, but also first-tier suppliers and customers. Each of these dimensions are then associated to potential performance outcomes. The findings not only provide a baseline for future research, but help practitioners understand where to focus their attention to enhance social sustainability in their supply chains.

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Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Mani

Gunasekaran

Παπαδόπουλος

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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“…Montiel and Delgado-Ceballos [56] conclude that the corporate sustainability (CS) field is still evolving and different approaches to define and theorize corporate sustainability exist, whereas a standardized method to measure it remains to be proposed. A variety of CSA methods exists in the literature, e.g., [58,69,70], including several ones for manufacturing companies, e.g., [56,71,72]. Some examples of CSA tools in manufacturing are [50,54,60,63,[72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81].…”

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Testing and Verification of a New Corporate Sustainability Assessment Method for Manufacturing: A Multiple Case Research Study

Moldavska

Welo

2018

Sustainability

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This paper aims at answering the question of how to design a theoretically sound corporate sustainability assessment (CSA) method that can strengthen the ability of manufacturing companies to contribute to global sustainable development (SD). In our effort to answer this question, we conduct a case study to test a newly designed CSA method to develop assessment tools for each of four different case companies. The method combines criteria-based indicators development with qualitative system dynamics modeling based on mental models of decision-makers. This strategy ensures a holistic approach to what corporate sustainability and sustainable manufacturing are. The paper is intended to serve, first of all, as a practical guide to the development of CSA tools. The scientific value of the method is discussed in terms of how it assists in the development of a tool that provides the potential to overcome shortcomings of existing approaches to sustainability assessment and to embrace the complexity of the sustainability concept. From the case study results, we demonstrate the capability of the new method by showing how it satisfies scientific requirements to sustainability assessment and fulfills functions of CSA. We also show how it may overcome some of the observed limitations of existing CSA tools.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4121 2 of 40 nature of conducting sustainability assessments by the private sector can potentially lead to selective interpretation and reporting of sustainability performance outcomes, increasing the danger of greenwashing. There is also a necessity to extend the scope of such assessments beyond a company's internal performance indicators toward external data on sustainable development trends, risks, and opportunities [20]. Despite these recommendations, the success of the existing efforts is argued to be very limited [21] due to the fact that research on how to translate social and environmental boundaries into contextually-based measures of sustainable development is still in an embryonic stage (ibid). Thus, the translation of societal-level indicators to a corporate context remains one of the most significant challenges in the operationalization of SDGs in the business world. It has been argued that strategically mindful firms with a solid corporate philosophy that values environmentalism are more willing to practice corporate sustainability [22], which is driven by the corporate sustainability strategy [23].Research about corporate sustainability assessment is still dominated by neoclassical thinking that implies the use of the so-called paradigm of rational and objective knowledge [24]. Therefore, many of the currently prevailing assessment tools are quite technocratic and deterministic by nature, with characteristics of their techno-rational roots and a high level of engineering. Such tools are often considered to be 'truth machines', with the ability to deterministically predict the behaviour of systems in the future. The technocratic approach has resulted in significant limitations of CSA as ...

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“…The number of grades might be different among different indicators. This depends on how many distinct levels of performances can be classified for each indicator [32]. Then, actual data sets from two logistics companies were employed to demonstrate the analysis.…”

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Environmental performance assessment using the evidential reasoning approach: The case of logistics service providers

Sureeyatanapas

Tawwan

2018

MATEC Web Conf.

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The demand for environmental performance assessment is increasing among business practitioners, and it has nowadays become one of the key factors for a company’s self-improvement as well as for selecting suppliers and logistics providers. The assessment is, in essence, a multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problem comprised of many quantitative and qualitative criteria. Frequently, the assessment data of some criterion is inevitably imprecise and/or incomplete since the nature of environmental assessment relies heavily on professional and complex methods which might not be fully available for every company. Also, qualitative criteria can only be assessed based upon human judgment. This paper, therefore, proposes an application of the evidential reasoning (ER) approach to the assessment of environmental performance for logistics service providers. The lists of criteria and indicators are adapted from ISO 14031. The ER approach is able to logically aggregate all assessment information, although different forms of data (precise or imprecise; complete or incomplete) are obtained. For this paper, assessment data from two logistics companies were gathered and analysed to illustrate the implementation process. The results are in the form of aggregated belief distributions on a unified set of evaluation grades, and the company can use this information for performance improvement and benchmarking.

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The sweet spot in sustainability: a framework for corporate assessment in sugar manufacturing

Cited by 44 publications

References 66 publications

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Testing and Verification of a New Corporate Sustainability Assessment Method for Manufacturing: A Multiple Case Research Study

Environmental performance assessment using the evidential reasoning approach: The case of logistics service providers

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