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Lüdeke-Freund, Florian, Sarah Carroux, Alexandre Joyce, Lorenzo Massa, and Henning Breuer. "The sustainable business model pattern taxonomy—45 patterns to support sustainability-oriented business model innovation." Sustainable Production and Consumption 15 (July 2018): 145–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2018.06.004.
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Bocken, Nancy. "Business-led sustainable consumption initiatives: impacts and lessons learned." Journal of Management Development 36, no. 1 (2017): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-10-2014-0136.
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Purpose To mitigate negative human-induced impact on the planet, consumption patterns need to be changed urgently. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how companies can drive sustainable consumption patterns. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses six illustrative cases of sustainable consumption initiatives by companies: their strategies, initiatives and impacts. Findings A “business-led sustainable consumption strategies framework” was developed to analyse the cases. It was found that companies apply individual, social and wider contextual influencing tactics to encourage sustainable consumption. The case initiatives emerged without regulatory pushes. It was found that collaborative initiatives could be impactful, because multiple stakeholder influence helps normalise new behaviour. Regulation helps to level the playing field in an industry and potentially force absolute consumption reductions. Practical implications This work provides insight into the potential of business-led sustainable consumption initiatives and the strategies to be used. Companies are making important steps to encourage sustainable consumption, but initiatives have not yet achieved the scale to significantly transform consumption patterns. Further business experimentation with social marketing type of techniques is recommended. Future work is required to map out the most suitable strategies to encourage sustainable consumption by industry. Originality/value This paper has given new insight in the potential future role of companies in sustainable consumption. Businesses are positioned as the initiators of sustainable consumption patterns: their expertise can be used to stimulate and adopt sustainable consumption patterns with customers. This work sheds light on how businesses can use social marketing-type techniques and business model innovation to drive sustainable consumption. Finally, it contributes to the understanding of the scale and effectiveness of business-led sustainable consumption initiatives.
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López-Nicolás, Carolina, Jesús Ruiz-Nicolás, and Enrique Mateo-Ortuño. "Towards Sustainable Innovative Business Models." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (2021): 5804. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13115804.
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This paper addresses two research questions: (1) How do firms innovate their business models to deal with the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, and their interconnections? (2) How do managers design the process toward more sustainable innovative business models? Starting from the triple-layered canvas as a theoretical framework, a pattern matching technique is used to compare that theoretical pattern to the empirical pattern observed. The study is based on qualitative methods and data from a Spanish company in the wine sector. The findings indicate that the triple-layered canvas is applicable and useful for micro firms, although the process to design sustainable innovative business models might be even more important. A new theoretical model is inferred and proposed to incorporate the perspective of the process of the business model innovations for sustainability, and to add several relevant aspects to make the process more successful. Besides this, non-family firms introducing sustainable business model innovations in their economic, ecological, and social aspects move closer to family firms’ distinctive behavior. Finally, the implications and future lines of research are summarized.
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Lüdeke-Freund, Florian, Sarah Carroux, Alexandre Joyce, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa. "Developing a Sustainable Business Model Pattern Language." Academy of Management Proceedings 2018, no. 1 (2018): 14771. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.14771abstract.
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Holtström, Johan, Charlotte Bjellerup, and Johanna Eriksson. "Business model development for sustainable apparel consumption." Journal of Strategy and Management 12, no. 4 (2019): 481–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsma-01-2019-0015.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify key aspects of business model development for sustainable apparel consumption, as actors show an increasing interest in product‒service systems. This purpose should be seen from a retailers’ perspective so as to develop sustainable solutions for long-term survival in the apparel industry when meeting consumer preferences for fashion as well as an increasing interest in consuming less. Further, this is from a perspective in an economy where sharing and circularity are potential drivers for changing consumer patterns. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the apparel retailer Houdini Sportswear and its business model development from a traditional model of selling sportswear to a more future-oriented model where sustainability is more salient. The data for analysis were collected through interviews with employees within the studied company. The interviews have been guided by overarching themes covering relevant areas of interest for this study. Findings Overall, the paper shows how sustainability can be included in strategic development, from product idea, product development, production and sales/rental to repair, reuse and finally recycling. The paper also highlights potential obstacles in a developed business model with increased sustainability, including technological platforms, distribution networks for collecting and returning products and consumer consumption preferences. There are a few intertwined factors to be considered on different societal levels to achieve long-term success. Originality/value This study contributes an increased understanding of how more sustainable solutions can be included when developing business models. While the manufacture, distribution and consumption of clothes have an impact on the environment, some retailers and producers want to reduce this environmental impact. One alternative is to change the way clothes are consumed, to include more sharing and circularity.
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Judina, Olena Ivanivna. "Management system the sustainable development of enterprise of hotel and restaurant business based on cost monitoring." European Journal of Management Issues 27, no. 1-2 (2019): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/191903.
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Purpose – to formulate and justify the optimal system model for managing sustainable economic development of a hotel and restaurant business.
 Design/Method/Approach. A theoretical generalization, logical-critical and economic-mathematical analysis patterns of functioning of a business as an economic system, based on systemic, process and target methodological approaches.
 Findings. The regularities of the business operating as an economic system are investigated. The system, target and process approaches to managing a business entity by developing a methodology related to the target functions formation of the individual subsystems and processes that make up the business activity are studied to identify patterns of their interaction and achieve an integrated result with the greatest efficiency. A structural-logical model of the control system is formed under the influence of disturbing environmental factors based on the objective functions and established vectors of sustainable economic development of the hotel and restaurant business, taking into account monitoring of its performance.
 Practical implications. The research results allow formulating the target management system for the sustainable economic development of the hotel and restaurant businesses based on monitoring costs as elements of the resources consumed, and effectively get adapted to environmental changes through integration of engineering, technology, economics, planning and management methods.
 Originality/Value. There was proposed a method for the system formation for managing sustainable economic development of a hotel and restaurant business based on cost monitoring, which, unlike existing ones, based on a set of system, process and target approaches and enables by differentiation processes occurring within the business and establishing patterns of their functional links with indicators of resource costs, provide forecasting and planning of performance.
 Research limitations/Future research. These researches are the basis for the subsequent evaluation and prediction of the of the operation efficiency, optimize resource costs of production and commercial activities of business entities, to create a mechanism for sustainable development of businesses.
 
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Hennemann, Jan Nicolai, Bernd Draser, and Katarina Repkova Stofkova. "The Green Business and Sustainable Development School—A Case Study for an Innovative Educational Concept to Prevent Big Ideas from Failure." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2021): 1943. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041943.
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This article addresses the question of why initiatives in the field of green business and sustainable development often fail. Therefore, it dismantles some typical patterns of failure and shows—as a case study—how these patterns can be challenged through an innovative educational concept: the green business and sustainable development school. The applied methodology is a real-life project that is designed through methodological elements stemming from business model canvas, theory U, stakeholder participation, and design thinking. The results of the school initiative are discussed and evaluated by four distinctive stakeholder groups and the school’s supporting potential to overcome typical patterns of failure in the green business and sustainable development arena by the younger generation in the future is outlined. This article concludes with ideas to enhance the school concept to reach even more stakeholder-groups and increase its reliability and viability.
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Namsawat, Ornwiriya, and Yanin Rugwongwan. "Tendency and Behaviour of Furniture Usage of Consumers in Thailand for Business Strategy Formation for Sustainable Environment." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 2, no. 6 (2017): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i6.952.
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According to the problems of excessive consumption of natural resources and the increasing trend of manufacturing across the globe at present, the need for transformation to sustainable consumption and sustainable production has been put on centre stage. One of the solutions to these problems is conducting business operations with the responsibility to the environment to reduce environmental impacts by changing consumption patterns relative to the consumers. This will lead to the business strategy in Product-Service Systems for furniture business under the concept of the Green Business Model to meet the consumers' needs. This research is, thus, a study of the behavioural trends of furniture usage, an analysis on environmental awareness of consumers in Thailand, and a search for the methods to provide services that will be accepted by the consumers to incentivize them in having sustainable consumption behaviours.
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Donner, Mechthild, and Ivana Radić. "Innovative Circular Business Models in the Olive Oil Sector for Sustainable Mediterranean Agrifood Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (2021): 2588. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052588.
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Considering the large amounts of harmful waste produced in the Mediterranean olive sector, entrepreneurial initiatives creating value from olive waste and by-products via circular bio-economy approaches are reviewed. These circular business models aim to enhance the functionality use of olive trees beyond traditional patterns for value creation. The study focuses on business drivers and value creation mechanisms, and specifically on conversion pathways of olive waste towards new value propositions. In total, 41 cases are analyzed mainly according to the Business Model Canvas components with NVivo, based on data gathered from an extensive online search mainly of company websites and reports, online articles, research project reports, professional websites, and newsletters. Results indicate that some innovative businesses have emerged specializing in the domain of olive waste valorization, driven by environmental concerns and mainly focusing on bioenergy production. However, the overall olive biomass potential yet seems to be under-valorized. A more radical and systemic change will be needed for effective implementation of circular business models contributing to sustainable development in the Mediterranean olive sector, with adequate subsidies, common regulations, more collective actions for creating economies of scale, and marketing strategies to increase consumer awareness for bio-based products.
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Marín Sanchiz, Cristian Ramón, and Miguel Carvajal Prieto. "Modelos de negocio para el periodismo: una propuesta metodológica para realizar estudios de caso." INDEX COMUNICACION 9, no. 1 (2019): 149–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33732/ixc/09/01modelo.
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The journalism industry faces difficulties in creating sustainable business models for the digital age. Communications research has looked at this challenge through case studies and panoramic perspectives, but there’s a lack of holistic views and a need for focus on value creation. In this situation, this paper presents a systematic literature review that confirms there’s a clear lack of standardization between the case studies, whose main focus have been revenue streams at the expense of deeper analysis of other key factors for the economic success of a company, like the value proposition. With the aim to contribute to the solution of this problem, the paper also proposes a methodological tool that allows future researchers to analyze the business model of a journalism company in a standard way with a view to facilitate better comparisons between companies and to understand success patterns of sustainable business models in order to promote innovation and knowledge exchange. Keywords: Business Models for Journalism; Revenue Streams for Journalism; Media Companies; Digital Journalism; Media Business Models Analysis; Media Economics.
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Levrini, Gabriel Roberto Dellacasa, and Walter Meucci Nique. "Sustainable business digital technology-based model: BikePoa case study as an example." Revista de Administração da UFSM 12, no. 3 (2019): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1983465932759.
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Environmental disasters attributed to global warming, strong media pressures towards an ecologically sustainable consumption, give path to alternative forms of green and sustainable consumption, like the sharing economy, a rising pattern in consumption behavior, based on accessing and reusing products to utilize idle capacity. The sharing economy holds the potential to bring effectiveness toward widespread sustainable business practices.The research objective is to propose a sustainable business technology-based model using technology as mediator among the shared economy agents under the lens of Actor Network Theory (ANT). We have chosen, as a sample, BikePoa bicycle sharing system has 40 stations and more than 2,000 bikes, throughout the city of Porto Alegre, in Brazil. The research methodology followed Kozinets’s (2006) participant-observational netnography. It was done 23 personal interviews with users and 7 with employees’ provider, and later through Google Docs 251 questionaries’ were selected. Findings point for two different factors consumers’ inductors and providers ‘connection factors.
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Starchenko, Luidmula, Serhiy Lyeonov, Tetyana Vasylieva, Tetyana Pimonenko, and Oleksii Lyulyov. "Environmental management and green brand for sustainable entrepreneurship." E3S Web of Conferences 234 (2021): 00015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202123400015.
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The increasing competitiveness at the global market and reinforcing the ecological issues contribute the reorientation from the traditional to the sustainable business model. In this case, the business should develop the green brand of the company, which required the implementation of environmental management. The hypothesis of the paper is checking the linking between environmental management and green brand at the company. The results of bibliometrics analysis on the selected theme confirmed the increasing numbers of papers which focused on analysing the relationships between the efficiency of environmental management and green brand at the company. In the paper, the authors used the VosViewer with the purpose to visualise the main scientific patterns on the selected theme. At the second stage, the authors identified the relationships between green brand and environmental management at the company using the ANOVA model. The data for analysis was obtained from the questionaries among companies management (which promote as green companies) and companies' financial statements. The two indicators described the green brand: loyalty to the green brand (frequency of searching company's brand in Google); net profit. The findings proved that companies with effective environmental management had a higher net profit and loyalty to the green brand.
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Crișan-Mitra, Cătălina Silvia, Liana Stanca, and Dan-Cristian Dabija. "Corporate Social Performance: An Assessment Model on an Emerging Market." Sustainability 12, no. 10 (2020): 4077. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12104077.
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This paper investigates the priorities governing large companies in an emerging market regarding corporate social performance (CSP). The authors propose profile patterns of responsible managerial behavior and a framework for evaluating CSP relying on stakeholder theory. The study relies on a statistical analysis which is designed to examine the significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice as it emerges from company business strategies. Taking the form of an empirical study involving 87 managers, this work relies on the cluster analysis theory, identifying six behavioral patterns when considering CSR practices: “lethargic”, “compliant, “pragmatist”, “auditor”, “formalist”, and “performer”. The cluster typology indicates the complexity of CSR practices and highlights the role of CSR in company strategy development. The proposed assessment model is intended to empower CSP diagnosis, while supporting management towards achieving sustainable growth.
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Drusche, Olaf, and Stefanie Krause. "Potentials of business model innovation and values-based management approaches in the mining sector." E3S Web of Conferences 266 (2021): 06004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202126606004.
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Mining is known to cause high ecological and social impacts especially due to its extractive nature on one hand and its resources and reserves mostly being located in developing or emerging economies on the other hand. Thus, it can be considered to have a paramount role in terms of making a significant contribution to sustainable development. Bearing in mind the growing economic output generated by humans and the growing world population, it is no wonder that related human-driven activities have never had such a strong (and at the same time burdening) influence on the biosphere resulting in exceedance of the planetary system boundaries. The critical reflection of the interaction between material cycles and economic growth is essential for reducing environmental burdens resulting from unthinking consumption patterns and production, and initial material extraction. The latest findings in academia confirm this assumption and point out that most practitioners are already aware of the urgent need for a redefinition of the sector’s understanding of success, taking into account the needs of both shareholders and stakeholders. Furthermore, the extractive sector has gained an image of being outdated. Agrowing number of decision-makers sees the necessity for a sustainable approach to business models that also embraces digitalization. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the standard business model that still dominates the mining industry, followed by a comparison of recent scientific findings on sustainability-oriented business model innovation and values-based innovation management to derive recommendations for potential sector-specific business model archetypes that contribute to the urgent redefinition.
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Mansfield, G. M., and L. C. H. Fourie. "Strategy and business models - strange bedfellows? A case for convergence and its evolution into strategic architecture." South African Journal of Business Management 35, no. 1 (2004): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v35i1.650.
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Strategy aims for sustainable competitive advantage; business models are said to be the sine qua non of value creation. Firms in the networked economy may ask which approach is the more relevant and whether either, or both, are sufficient for success - and then misinterpret the linkage between them. Internet-based businesses are faced with rapid change in an environment characterised by connectedness and choice in which dynamism, innovation and customer-centricity appear to be the winning ingredients for success. In the networked economy the internet with its open standards has created commercial arrangements which manifest a disdain for traditional boundaries and demand new patterns of management behaviour for effective performance. The classic approach to strategy formulation with its perceived indifference, for example, towards network formation, confusion around generic strategy deployment, lack of dynamism and its vacuous treatment of customer-centricity have led electronic business practitioners to the flawed conclusion that a business model is the only compelling strategic behaviour which predicates success. This conceptual paper builds a theoretical base which traces the roots of strategy and business models, reviews the context of each, postulates a relationship between these two fundamental approaches and offers some guidelines on the missing ingredients.
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Amoako, George Kofi, Joshua Kofi Doe, and Robert Kwame Dzogbenuku. "Perceived firm ethicality and brand loyalty: the mediating role of corporate social responsibility and perceived green marketing." Society and Business Review 16, no. 3 (2021): 398–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbr-05-2020-0076.
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Purpose This study aims to establish the link between business ethics and brand loyalty and to investigate the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as green marketing. Design/methodology/approach Using the purposive sampling technique, data were obtained from 622 middle-income city dwellers who shop at leading retail malls. Data were analyzed with partial least square–structural equation model. Findings The study found a positive and significant relationship between business ethics, CSR, green marketing and business loyalty. Both CSR and green marketing mediate between perceived firm ethicality and brand loyalty. Research limitations/implications This research was done based on general knowledge of business ethics, CSR and green marketing from the consumers’ perspective. Future studies can avoid this limitation. Practical implications By ensuring ethical codes, CSR and green marketing, firms can contribute to promoting the SDGs, and at the same time, achieving customer loyalty. Brand loyalty is further enhanced if customers see a firm to be practicing CSR. Social implications The SDGs of sustainable production patterns, climate change and its impacts, and sustainably using water resources must become the focus of companies as they ultimately yield loyalty. Policymakers and society can design a policy to facilitate adoption of better ethical behavior and green marketing by firms as a way of promoting SDGs. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to test the mediation effect of green marketing and CSR on how ethical behavior leads to brand loyalty. It is also one of the few papers to examine how SDGs can be promoted by businesses as stakeholders.
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Jain, Kritika, Ankit Garg, and Somya Jain. "Reconstructing Diffusion Model for Virality Detection in News Spread Networks." International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science 10, no. 1 (2019): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijkss.2019010102.
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In today's competitive world, organizations take advantage of widely-available data to promote their products and increase their revenue. This is achieved by identifying the reader's preference for news genre and patterns in news spread network. Spreading news over the internet seems to be a continuous process which eventually triggers the evolution of temporal networks. This temporal network comprises of nodes and edges, where node corresponds to published articles and similar articles are connected via edges. The main focus of this article is to reconstruct a susceptible-infected (SI) diffusion model to discover the spreading pattern of news articles for virality detection. For experimental analysis, a dataset of news articles from four domains (business, technology, entertainment, and health) is considered and the articles' rate of diffusion is inferred and compared. This will help to build a recommendation system, i.e. recommending a particular domain for advertisement and marketing. Hence, it will assist to build strategies for effective product endorsement for sustainable profitability.
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Szewieczek, Aleksandra, Beata Dratwińska-Kania, and Aleksandra Ferens. "Business Model Disclosure in the Reporting of Public Companies—An Empirical Study." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (2021): 10088. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810088.
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Traditional financial reporting primarily discloses information about assets, equity, liabilities and financial situation of an enterprise. Simultaneously, socio-economic changes are prompting enterprises to implement business reporting towards disclosing activities for sustainable development and information about the business model in non-financial reporting. Shaping of an enterprise’s business model is carried out in the spirit of sustainable development, which is beginning to dominate the strategies of many large enterprises. At the same time, the concept of the business model and its reporting have still not been characterized in detail or standardized, which limits transparency and the usefulness of information. These phenomena provided an incentive to undertake the research on the business model reporting. The overall goal of this study is to expand research on disclosures about the business model in the corporate reporting of Polish listed companies, as well as to indicate the degree and directions of development of this subject against the background of the accounting system. The study also addresses the epistemological goal by entering the discussion on reporting about the business model. The research uses the financial statement content analysis method and the statistical method (Spearman’s correlation). The scope of disclosures about the business model are examined in integrated reports, consolidated reports, management reports, non-financial data reports and CSR reports of Polish companies listed on the stock market. This information is examined according to its four main components: inputs, business activities, outputs and outcomes. The correlation between the number of audited disclosures and selected economic and similar parameters characterizing enterprises (total assets, performance, board, EBITda, equity and liabilities) is also studied. The research reveals that entities preparing an integrated report demonstrate a greater number of disclosures of business model components in selected economic categories than entities that do not prepare such a report. Thus, the companies preparing an integrated report follow the mainstream of stakeholder theory, opting for a more descriptive reporting approach, accessible to a wider group of users. Moreover, business model information is often reported in a highly random manner. Simultaneously, descriptive forms of business model disclosure prevail over numerical ones, although not to a large degree. The findings also confirm that there is a positive correlation between the detail of disclosures about the business model and selected economic parameters of an enterprise (the strongest with total assets, board and EBITda). Thus, it becomes possible to recognize that large enterprises with a strong and stable structure of assets follow specific, more detailed reporting patterns aimed at sustainable development of reporting. At the same time, they are more likely to expand the scope of disclosures compared to smaller enterprises. This investigation responds to the interest of enterprises and other stakeholders in the reporting spectrum by increasing market information efficiency and transparency. Findings can also be used by standards setters, while providing new rules and regulations.
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Sun, Yuhuan, Zhiyu Yang, Xinyuan Yu, and Wangwang Ding. "Evaluating Sustainable Development of Land Resources in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China." Journal of Global Information Management 30, no. 6 (2022): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.285585.
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The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is one of the most economically active regions in China, where an imbalance between the demand for land and the non-renewable is increasingly prominent. We present the patterns of land use in the YREB, then construct an evaluation index based on the Pressure-State-Response model. The TOPSIS model is used to evaluate sustainable land development in the YREB, and the spatial deductive characteristics of sustainable development levels are analyzed using three aspects: global spatial correlation, local spatial correlation, and regional difference. The results about the YREB show that: (1) The comprehensive sustainable land development score is average, indicating moderate sustainability with a fluctuating upward trend and good prospects. (2) The sustainable development levels of land have strong positive spatial correlation and agglomeration; the agglomeration characteristics follow a pattern similar to that of the status of economic development. (3) Sustainable development levels of land in the provinces and cities show great spatial differences.
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Zinchuk, Tetyana, and Evhenii Levkivskyi. "Convergence of agro-business structures in the new model of globalization economy." INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, no. 7-8 (November 2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.37332/2309-1533.2020.7-8.1.
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Purpose. The aim of the article is analysis and substantiation of possibilities of adaptation of agro-business structures to effective integration, intertwining of economic activity, convergence and unification (convergence) of their potentials that will promote overcoming of social and economic negative consequences of functioning of vertically integrated structures of holding type and strengthening of advantages of various organizational forms of enterprises small and medium agrarian business. Methodology of research. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is theories and views presented in the works of foreign and domestic scientists. The results of the study are obtained using both general and special (economic) methods of scientific knowledge. The general historical context of convergence is considered on the basis of the historical and dialectical method; the method of analysis and synthesis is used in identifying global problems against the background of the economic crisis. Argumentation of theoretical provisions that characterize the patterns of convergence and the relationship of organizational forms of management in the agricultural sector, formed on a systematic analysis, the laws of logic, the method of scientific abstraction. Statistical, tabular and graphical methods are used for comparative analysis of economic performance of agricultural enterprises. Findings. The advantages and disadvantages of the existing agro-business structures in the conditions of new requirements of globalization, anticipated consequences of the economic crisis and orientation on the goals of sustainable development, on the basis of which objective conditions for the convergence process are formed, are revealed. Originality. It is substantiated that under the condition of convergence of different categories of enterprises the minimization of social and economic differences between them is ensured and inequalities in entering the domestic and foreign markets are levelled. Contrary to the existing radical views on the exceptional damage from the activities of agricultural holdings, a methodological approach is proposed, according to which transformational changes based on convergence will anticipate and minimize risks, especially in small and medium agribusiness, which will occur during pandemics and economic crisis. This approach will promote the cohesion of forms of management in the agricultural business, which reflects the experience of best management practices of developed countries. Practical value. The proposed scientific ideas and views on convergence, as a process of convergence and integration of potentials and resources of existing forms of management, can be used at the enterprise level, which will ensure a synergistic effect of their scale and compliance with sustainable development goals in a favourable institutional environment. Key words: agrarian business, agro-holdings, globalization, innovations, convergence, sustainable development, forms of management of agrarian enterprises.
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Łobejko, Stanisław, and Krzysztof Bartczak. "The Role of Digital Technology Platforms in the Context of Changes in Consumption and Production Patterns." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (2021): 8294. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158294.
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The article focuses on issues relating to achieving sustainable development by promoting new consumption and production patterns based, for example, on sharing resources and doing business exclusively in a digital environment. This topic is extremely important because sustainable development is a fundamental concept aimed at improving the functioning of the present and future generations. The main focus of the article is to show the role played by digital technology platforms within this concept, including in relation to consumption and production patterns. The article is based on two research methods—CATI (i.e., computer-aided telephone interviews) and regression analysis for CATREG quality variables. It has been established that digital technology platforms significantly influence the creation and development of modern business models and increase the quality and intensity of relations between various company stakeholders, which is the basis for promoting new consumption and production patterns—including those based on the sharing economy, subscription to various products and services or the functioning of virtual markets, enabling purchase and sale transactions.
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Крахмальова, Ніна Анатолівна. "ФРАНЧАЙЗИНГ ЯК ФОРМА РОЗВИТКУ ПІДПРИЄМНИЦТВА СОЦІАЛЬНО ВРАЗЛИВИХ ВЕРСТВ НАСЕЛЕННЯ". Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Series: Economic sciences 123, № 3 (2019): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2413-0117.2018.3.5.
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The paper argues that franchising is a specific form of doing business that applies to all developed market-economy countries. However, the scope of franchise practice in the Ukrainian economy, in particular in the area of doing business and entrepreneurship among socially vulnerable groups, remains rather limited. The research hypothesis is to assess the attractiveness of franchising for socially vulnerable populations. The implementation of this type of entrepreneurship by socially vulnerable groups allows to gain significant benefits for all the participants of franchising relationships: for start-uppers this is a good opportunity for effective self-employment, since they obtain a stable profitable business; for reputed firms and companies – to expand and strengthen their market positions; for the state – to acquire an effective tool to support entrepreneurship. The purpose of this study is to provide rationale for selecting the most appropriate franchise business model for socially vulnerable populations and to evaluate its implementation specifics. To summarize the research findings, the following methods were used: the taxonomy method – to analyze the key stages of business models evolution and classification; cluster and factor analysis – to expound the basic elements and tools of a franchise business model; the methodology for modeling of future by constructing scenarios – to predict possible socio-cultural and existential franchise-based entrepreneurship risks. The paper also seeks to explore characteristics of franchise entrepreneurship; its significance and role in the socioeconomic framework; the sources and motifs behind social entrepreneurship; the specific patterns of building business models for socially vulnerable groups along with justifying the particular indicators and criteria to develop a franchise business model typology and to reveal the institutional aspects in the formation of different types of franchise-based business models. The above study on the conceptual paradigm of social entrepreneurship has allowed to expand the theoretical understanding of social business entities functioning and development and to identify the peculiarities in the formation of different types of franchise business models. The application of the most optimal model will contribute to enhance the management efficiency of social businesses, which in turn will increase the cumulative social effects through the replication and dissemination of successful sustainable business models.
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Moro-Visconti, Roberto, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, and Joaquín López Pascual. "Sustainability in FinTechs: An Explanation through Business Model Scalability and Market Valuation." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (2020): 10316. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410316.
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Framework: Financial Technology (FinTech) is an industry composed of diversified firms that combine financial services with innovative technologies. The research question and main goal are attempting to answer whether they are more similar to traditional banks or trendy technological firms deploying their innovativeness to favor financial inclusion and sustainability. Justification: Evaluators may wonder if FinTechs follow the typical evaluation patterns of bank/financial intermediaries or those of technological firms. Preliminary empirical evidence shows that the latter interpretation is the one consistent with the stock-market mood. Objective: This study goes beyond the extant literature, analyzing the differences between FinTechs and traditional banks in market valuation, and showing the potential for digital interaction and cross-pollination of complementary business models. Methodology: The differences will be empirically analyzed with the stock market valuation and the multipliers associated with these firms. Results: The main contribution of this paper is that the appraisal approaches of FinTechs follow those of technological startups, having a revenue model much more scalable than that of a typical bank. FinTechs may so provide a solution for sustainable finance with microfinance and crowdfunding among others. FinTechs and traditional banks may eventually converge towards a common market exploiting co-opetition strategies.
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Ijaz, Muhammad, and Jongtae Rhee. "Constituents and Consequences of Online-Shopping in Sustainable E-Business: An Experimental Study of Online-Shopping Malls." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (2018): 3756. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103756.
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With the growth of the internet, electronic (online) business has become an important trend in the economy. This study investigates how retailers could enhance their shopping processes and hence help sustain their e-business development. Therefore, we propose a unified information system-consumer behavior (IS-CB) model for online shopping to analyze factors that impact online shopping. We used an online survey to gather data from 633 online customers to test the theoretical model, matching differences using structural equation modeling. Highly influencing factors for the IS-CB online shopping model included perceived value (PV), perceived risk (PR), social factors (SF), perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), online shopping intention, trust, online shopping experience, actual online shopping purchases, entertainment gratification (EG), website irritation (WI), information design (ID), visual design (VD), and navigation design (ND). This study provides important theoretical and practical implications. PV and trust in online shopping can nurture positive attitudes and shopping intentions among online customers. Well-designed websites produce higher levels of trust and reduced WI. Similarly, online shopping sites with better ID, ND, and VD also reduce WI and increase trust. This study fills gaps in previous studies relating to IS and CB and provides explanations for IS and CB constituent impacts on acceptance and use of online shopping. The proposed unified IS-CB explains consumer online shopping patterns for a sustainable e-business.
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Vetrova, Maria, and Dinara Ivanova. "Model of Production with a Closed Life Cycle as a Basis for the Development of the Circular Economy in the Context of Digital Transformation." 11th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 11, no. 1 (2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2020.11(86).
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On November 25-27, 2015, the UN General Assembly put forward 17 key sustainable development goals, one of which is Ensuring sustainable production and consumption patterns. Achieving this goal requires a review of the current dominant in many countries linear model of the economy based on the principle of "take, make, waste", with the aim of converting production and consumption patterns into closed form, where all products and materials are developed with the possibility of recycling or reuse . The global trend of digitalization has led to the possibility of efficient formation of closed supply chains and today more and more attention is being drawn to the concept of a circular economy, which has a restorative nature based on the principle of "take, make, reuse" (Pakhomova N., Richter K., Vetrova M., 2017). The number of scientific papers and best practices in the application of circular business models has been steadily increasing in recent years. If in 2016 the number of publications related to the circular economy amounted to about 400, in 2018 the number of studies grew to 1000 (Ngan S., How B., Teng S. et all., 2019). Companies around the world are actively implementing the principles of the circular economy at all stages of value creation, striving to develop closed supply chains. Keywords: circular economy, digital technology, decision-making model, closed supply chains
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Kusi, Manita, Fuqiang Zhao, and Dinesh Sukamani. "Impact of perceived organizational support and green transformational leadership on sustainable organizational performance: a SEM approach." Business Process Management Journal 27, no. 5 (2021): 1373–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-09-2020-0419.
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PurposeThe study aims to scrutinize the concomitant associations between corporate social responsibility (CSR), perceived organizational support (POS), green transformational leadership (GTL) and organizational performance (OP). This paper aims to explore the role of intervening variable to measure the strength on the relationship between CSR and OP.Design/methodology/approachThis research administered a survey through self-administered questionnaire among the staff-level employees of construction companies of Nepal. Fully filled 305 responses from the participants were analyzed using a structural equation model. The study used self-structured questionnaire as research tool and face-to-face meetings as data collection technique.FindingsThe research indicates that POS showed competitive partial mediation relation between CSR and OP. Besides, a novel exploration of the moderation effect of GTL displays a supportive role in harmonizing the CSR with organizational support to achieve better OP. This study enriches empirical evidence to understand the linkage between CSR and POS in staff-level employees in the construction area. Moreover, the research shed a light on GTL 's moderating influence on the mediated model of CSR, POS and OP.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the results of the study add to the current knowledge base, several limitations highlight avenues for future research. Future studies can explore the relationship in other study areas with added evidence on a similar result with different analysis patterns and study sample. The research model studied in the context of Nepal creating evidence as a representation for the developing countries.Originality/valueThe intervening role of POS and GTL gives new insight for the research-based organization based social behavior and performance
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Asminaya, N. S., B. P. Purwanto, N. Nahrowi, W. A. Ridwan, and A. Atabany. "Ecological sustainability of smallholder dairy farm with Leisa pattern." Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture 43, no. 4 (2018): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jitaa.43.4.412-420.
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This study was conducted to determine the sustainability status of smallholder dairy farms applying Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA) pattern, and to formulate sustainable model. Eight smallholder dairy farms located in livestock business area (KUNAK) were purposive selectedwith criteria was they had 11 heads dairy cows, planted an elephant grass, dispose the manure to grassland, did not use chemicals fertilizer, 4250 m2 land area of dairy farming. Data were analyzed by: 1) attribute determination, 2) ordinal scale determination based on sustainability criteria;3) data analysis (Rap Dairy software);4) assessment of index and sustainability status;5) review sensitive attributes (leverage analysis)and 6) validation model (Monte Carloand Square Correlation (SQR) analysis). Attributes and ordinal scale on ecological sustainability weredensityof dairy cow, carrying capacity, supply water, drainage cages, soil fertility, topography, rainfall, humidity, temperature and altitude. Results of Rap Dairy analysis showed that smallholder dairy farms who apply LEISA pattern ecologically was quite sustainable with index of 57.95.The index could be increased to 88.39 (sustainable) through model simulation with respect to sensitive attributes. The results of Leverage analysis showedthat topography, densityof dairy cow, carrying capacity, supply water availability were sensitive attributes.Analysis Monte Carlo and SQR showedthat model could explain data well.
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Imasiku, K., and E. Ntagwirumugara. "Sustainable energy supply and business collaborations for sustainability, resilience and competitiveness in the Zambian copper industry after Covid-19." Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 32, no. 1 (2021): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2021/v32i1a8083.
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The mining industry in Zambia is energy-intensive, with hydro energy providing the required energy. But other sources of energy may need to be added, because hydro energy is subject to good rain patterns, threatened by the spectre of climate change, as already indicated by the current prolonged hours of load shedding by state-owned , Zambia Electricity Supply Company. This research looks at state-of-art mining technologies and collaborative business processes that leverage on the expected ramp in copper and cobalt (Cu-Co) global demand post-Covid-19, to help design resilient business systems by manufacturing, source goods and services within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to lower Cu-Co production costs, and maximise profits through shared resources and bilateral trade agreements. With evidence, projection and predictions by global leaders in the Cu-Co industry, this study evaluates the preparedness and resilience of the Zambian mining industry for sustainable energy supply, environmental sustainability, and suggests some possible business collaborations within the SADC region to share the following resources: metal refineries, transportation of goods and services, expertise and energy supplies within SADC, to enhance business sustainability. The study shows that the resilience of Cu-Co business in resource-rich nations like Zambia is complex and is heavily influenced by investment decisions, stakeholder interests, copper ore grades and extractive process types, reliable power supply, and socio-economic and political issues. The significance of this study is that it proposes some business collaborations within SADC that can increase energy reliability and supply, Cu-Co production, increase business resilience, improve global competitiveness and sustainability by exploring energy efficiency and generation-mix strategy.
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 A sustainable energy analysis for Zambia.
 Establishing the role of mine multi-national enterprises concerning environmental sustainability. 
 Proposing copper business resilience collaborations within SADC.
 Developing a mining business resilience and sustainability model for sustainable power supply, high production, profitability and global competitiveness.
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McMullin, Michelle, and Bradley Dilger. "Constructive Distributed Work: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Collaboration and Research for Distributed Teams." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 35, no. 4 (2021): 469–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10506519211021467.
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Academic work increasingly involves creating digital tools with interdisciplinary teams distributed across institutions and roles. The negative impacts of distributed work are described at length in technical communication scholarship, but such impacts have not yet been realized in collaborative practices. By integrating attention to their core ethical principles, best practices, and work patterns, the authors are developing an ethical, sustainable approach to team building that they call constructive distributed work. This article describes their integrated approach, documents the best practices that guide their research team, and models the three-dimensional thinking that helps them develop sustainable digital tools and ensure the consistent professional development of all team members.
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Sukhonos, Victor, Inna Makarenko, Yulia Serpeninova, Oksana Drebot, and Yoshihiko Okabe. "Patterns of corporate social responsibility of Ukrainian companies: clustering and improvement strategies for responsible activities." Problems and Perspectives in Management 17, no. 2 (2019): 365–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.28.
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The variability of companies stakeholders’ engagement forms, communication channels, approaches to disclosure of companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) and strategies for CSR achievement cause the formation of benchmarks – patterns of responsible behavior of these companies. Determination of companies’ CSR patterns plays is a ground of (plays a role or is a ground of) improving their strategies for responsible activities. These patterns were highlighted on the basis of comprehensive three-component indicator that illustrates the combination of parameters: models of companies’ communication with stakeholders, approaches to the disclosure of information on CSR and strategies for incorporating CSR and Sustainable Development Goals. Positioning of 22 Ukrainian companies for the period 2005–2017 was made. Results of positioning allowed to determine such clusters of the companies in accordance with the pattern of responsible behavior as А – innovators, B – leaders, C – pursuer, D – followers, E – starters, F – outsiders; to develop the measures on the improvement of their CSR activity.
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Jones, Peter, David Hillier, and Daphne Comfort. "Sustainable consumption and the UK’s leading retailers." Social Responsibility Journal 10, no. 4 (2014): 702–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-04-2013-0046.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an exploratory case study of how the UK’s leading retailers are addressing sustainable consumption. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with a discussion of the growing awareness of the importance of sustainable consumption and of the role that retailers can play in promoting more sustainable patterns of consumption. This is followed by a short literature review of current thinking on sustainable consumption. The paper draws its empirical information from the top ten UK retailers’ corporate websites and from an observational survey conducted in these retailers’ largest stores in the town of Cheltenham in the UK. The paper concludes with some reflections on how the UK’s leading retailers are addressing sustainable consumption and on how the concept fits into their business models. Findings – The findings reveal that the UK’s top ten retailers make very limited public corporate commitments to sustainable consumption and that while some of these retailers were offering customers some information which might encourage more sustainable shopping behaviour, such information was systematically undermined by marketing messages which were designed to encourage rather than restrict consumption. More critically the paper concludes that the leading retailers’ commitments to sustainable consumption are couched within existing business models centred on continuing growth and that as such they are effectively ignoring the fact that present levels of consumption are not sustainable. Originality/value – This paper provides an accessible review of the extent to which the UK’s leading food retailers are addressing sustainable consumption and communicating sustainable consumption agendas to their customers within stores, and, as such, it will be of value to academics, practitioners, consumer organizations and policymakers interested in the role retailers can play in promoting sustainable consumption.
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Bobkov, Aleksandr L., Igor V. Denisov, and Oksana V. Kuchmaeva. "Research of organizational structure of retail business and educational institution by methods of statistical analysis." Statistics and Economics 16, no. 1 (2019): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2500-3925-2019-1-11-21.
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The purpose of the study.The purpose of the research is to define a previously developed theoretical evolution model of an organizational structure, that is based on the hypothesis that the two types of organizational structures, consecutive and parallel, succeed each other, undergoing quality changes with the growth and development of organisations, though pertaining properties which determine the structure characteristics and provide a sufficient growth of organizations’ efficiency. Following the results of the authors’ previous research, it was hypothesized that the growth of an organization during a transition from one to the other type of organization structure follows either intensive or extensive pattern and is defined by the type of the transformation.Materials and methods.The study analyzed the retail trade sector, with isolated branches that distinguish this type of organizational structures, and educational institutions. The authors believe that organizations of similar types possess similar (consecutive and parallel) organizational structures. Groups of similar objects were identified by the cluster analysis used for grouping basic data. Following this, the results of cluster analysis were defined and key factors for patterns of organizational development were selected by the principal component analysis. Also, the Objectives Tree method was applied to gauge the effect of the types of educational services on the performance of private educational organizations and their structure. The research analyzed the data obtained from the database of commercial organizations of Czech Republic.Results.In general, the proposed model of the evolution of an organizational structure in retail business was redefined, and the outcomes of the conducted analysis allow defining the following:– when transitioning from the parallel to the consecutive organizational structure, the growth can be described as intensive, and while the consecutive model transitions to the parallel organizational structure the growth follows the extensive pattern;– development of retail business is defined by the three key factors: size of an organization, its performance efficiency and lifetime. The cluster analysis of educational organisations revealed seven clusters. After analysis of average values of variables, these clusters can be grouped in five. These outcomes led to the additional research with Objectives Tree, which showed that both small and large educational organisations employ their certain typical features of educational services. A similar pattern describes certain types of educational services in the organisations of different lifetime.Conclusion.The outcomes of the cluster analysis of commercial organisations of two sectors of Czech Republic and their further analysis confirmed the suggested hypothesis and matched corresponding theoretical evolution models of organizational structures, the results also showed intensive growth when transitioning from the parallel to the consecutive organizational structure and extensive growth when the transition changes from the consecutive to the parallel organizational structure. The alternating patterns of consecutive and parallel structures, as well as suggested gauging of the transition effectiveness will allow owners and management staff to efficiently maintain sustainable development of commercial organisations.
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García-Álvarez de Perea, Juan, Carolina Ramírez-García, and Aida Del Cubo-Molina. "Internationalization Business Models and Patterns of SMEs and MNEs: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study in the Agrifood Sector." Sustainability 11, no. 10 (2019): 2755. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102755.
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Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the agri-food sector have been overcoming internationalization barriers. However, research is scarce, specifically to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, despite the importance of the sector. The main aim of our study is to explore the archetypes and internationalization pace of internationalized SMEs and MNEs in the agri-food sector, adopting an external perspective and an empirical approach. More particularly, the influence of the interaction of demand-side innovation and management control systems (MCSs) in companies in the industry is examined. A qualitative research design was developed in order to achieve an in-depth understanding of the contextual factors affecting international SMEs and MNEs in the agri-food sector. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with three SME and three MNE managers. Our findings suggest that SMEs are not fundamentally different from MNEs—both types of organizations best fit the Casino model archetype. It was also found that strong competition helps the development of collaborative innovation, directing advancement toward fulfilling consumer demand. MCSs are neither communicating information nor managing perceived risks by creating trust and confidence; they are mostly used for diagnostic purposes, not substantially influencing the innovation process.
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Fontana, Alejandro, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado, Johan Villanueva-Penedo, José Ulloa-Salazar, and Denisse Santander-Peralta. "Strategy for the Sustainability of a Food Production System for the Prosperity of Low-Income Populations in an Emerging Country: Twenty Years of Experience of the Peruvian Poultry Association." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (2018): 4035. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114035.
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This research shows a business initiative that has been able to integrate into an environmentally sustainable food production system, such as poultry farming, a positive impact on food security and public health patterns of low-income populations in an emerging country. For a process that took 20 years, the adopted strategy has become a positive experience of sustainability and prosperity in low-income populations in Peru. The objective of the research is to conceptualize and identify the key elements of this experience so that its replication in other food production systems to impact favorably the prosperity of such vulnerable population. The Working With People (WWP) model, a validated methodology for analyzing the sustainability and prosperity of rural areas in Europe, is used for the analysis of this experience. The analysis shows that the presence of the three dimensions of this model (political-contextual, technical-business, and ethical-social) ensure the sustainability of a food production system that has an impact on the prosperity of low-income populations in emerging countries. This balance is important to enrich the connections between sustainability and prosperity, with other concepts such as core values in companies, public-private cooperation, food safety, inclusion and consumption patterns.
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Ilie, Camelia, Gaston Fornes, Guillermo Cardoza, and Juan Carlos Mondragón Quintana. "Development of Business Schools in Emerging Markets: Learning through Adoption and Adaptation." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (2020): 8448. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208448.
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The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the critical resources and capabilities that business schools (BS) have developed to achieve sustainable development. Framed within the resource-based theory, it analyzes seven of the top 50 BS from emerging markets (EM). It argues that these schools have grown through a development process of adopting and adapting business models, including teaching and research methodologies, organizational structures, and business practices; when they consolidated their local leadership, they started to follow a more idiosyncratic process. The findings shed light on the challenges that schools from EM face to deliver local impact while being measured by international standards and have implications for theory development, practice, and policymaking. In terms of theory, the findings show how the Global North model has exerted a determining influence in the development path of BS in EM, and, subsequently, how the pressure to respond to domestic demands has guided the acquisition of resources and the development of capabilities. For practice, the study reveals development patterns, clues about the challenges these BS face, and the range of solutions they have implemented. For policymaking, the case studies offer valuable lessons on how governments can design support systems for BS development.
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Pérez-Pérez, Cristina, Diana Benito-Osorio, Susana María García-Moreno, and Andrés Martínez-Fernández. "Is Sharing a Better Alternative for the Planet? The Contribution of Sharing Economy to Sustainable Development Goals." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2021): 1843. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041843.
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The sharing economy has been presented as a potential contributor to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to the change it brings to consumption patterns. Although this potential has been identified in different papers, there is not, as far as we know, a single article that explains in detail all the possible platforms through which the sharing economy can contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. This paper addresses this topic by reviewing the existing literature involving the sharing economy and the SDGs, and by analyzing the main characteristics attributed to this business model, and how each one of them may in theory contribute to the SDGs. Our paper advances the field by establishing hitherto undiscovered relationships between the two concepts, while laying the foundations for corroborating our theoretical findings in future analytical studies.
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Schueffel, Patrick, Rico Baldegger, and Wolfgang Amann. "Behavioral patterns in born-again global firms." Multinational Business Review 22, no. 4 (2014): 418–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mbr-06-2014-0029.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that influence so-called born-again global firms’ internationalization behavior. Specifically, this article explores the following questions: why do mature, domestically focused firms suddenly turn into born-again global firms, how do they do so and what elements are needed for born-again global firms to be sustainable. Design/methodology/approach – Using an established international entrepreneurship model as a starting point, we extract relevant factors for a conceptual framework on born-again global firms’ internationalization activities. Case study research among a cross-sectional sample of born-again global firms is being applied for that purpose. Findings – Driven by the insufficient size of their domestic market, born-again global firms typically embark on internationalization after a generational change at the chief executive officer level. Throughout their internationalization journey, they flexibly adapt toward new needs of their foreign environments. Due to their idiosyncratic characteristics, born-again global firms deserve consideration as a separate group of research objects in the field of international entrepreneurship. Research limitations/implications – The investigated sample of case study firms was drawn across a variety of industries. As such, industry-specific conditions could not be observed and the findings from case study research run the risks of being generalized too broadly. In addition, the accuracy of the case study results may suffer from a certain degree of hindsight bias as the internationalization event took place in the past. Practical implications – Openness to learning from other markets and the flexibility to modify products according to client needs strengthen born-again global firms’ competitiveness. To endure, born-again global firms have to be innovative in adapting to changes, which makes it easier for them to launch their products in new markets. Originality/value – To date, international entrepreneurship has focused on the activities of small and newly established firms, largely neglecting the behavior of somewhat larger and established firms in traditional sectors. This study shows that established companies can exhibit the same innovative, proactive and risk-seeking behavior across borders as new ventures do. Despite their strongly rooted structures, strategies and cultures, born-again globals can flexibly adapt to new environments.
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Haezendonck, Elvira, and Karel Van den Berghe. "Patterns of Circular Transition: What Is the Circular Economy Maturity of Belgian Ports?" Sustainability 12, no. 21 (2020): 9269. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12219269.
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Large seaport hubs in Northwestern Europe are aiming to develop as circular hotspots and are striving to become first movers in the circular economy (CE) transition. In order to facilitate their transition, it is therefore relevant to unravel potential patterns of the circular transition that ports are currently undertaking. In this paper, we explore the CE patterns of five Belgian seaports. Based on recent (strategy) documents from port authorities and on in-depth interviews with local port executives, the circular initiatives of these ports are mapped, based on their spatial characteristics and transition focus. The set of initiatives per port indicates its maturity level in terms of transition towards a circular approach. For most studied seaports, an energy recovery focus based on industrial symbiosis initiatives seems to dominate the first stages in the transition process. Most initiatives are not (yet) financially sustainable, and there is a lack of information on potential new business models that ports can adopt in view of a sustainable transition. The analysis of CE patterns in this paper contributes to how ports lift themselves out of the linear lock-in, as it demonstrates that ports may walk a different path and at a diverging speed in their CE transition, but also that the Belgian ports so far have focused too little on their cargo orchestrating role in that change process. Moreover, it offers a first insight into how integrated and sustainable the ports’ CE initiatives currently are.
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Bressanelli, Gianmarco, Nicola Saccani, Marco Perona, and Irene Baccanelli. "Towards Circular Economy in the Household Appliance Industry: An Overview of Cases." Resources 9, no. 11 (2020): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources9110128.
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Circular Economy is a means to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns. However, it is still at an embryonic stage of implementation in manufacturing companies. Given its potential, the household appliance industry is a promising arena for the adoption of Circular Economy. Thus, this study aims to investigate and systematize how Circular Economy has been adopted in the household appliance industry, through a multiple case study research. Twenty cases are analyzed following a Research Framework, to map: (i) the Circular Economy 4R strategies of reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle; (ii) the Circular Economy levers, i.e., whether circular product design practices, servitized business models or supply chain management actions are undertaken; (iii) the role of digital 4.0 technologies as enablers; (iv) the benefits achieved. The analysis showed that servitized business models and supply chain management actions are widely used levers, while little attention is devoted to circular product design practices. Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Cloud emerged as powerful enablers of servitized business models. Two main patterns of Circular Economy adoption in the household appliance industry emerged from cases: incremental and radical adoption patterns. Incremental adoption patterns are based on design strategies focused on reduce and recycle, mainly led by manufacturers. Radical adoption patterns are instead focused on disruptive practices based on reuse, remanufacture, servitization and sharing, where digital 4.0 technologies serve as enablers. Overall, this exploratory research lays the foundation for a stronger and more systemic understanding of the adoption of Circular Economy in the household appliance industry.
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Molotkova, N. V., D. L. Khazanova, and E. V. Ivanova. "Small Business in Digital Economy." SHS Web of Conferences 62 (2019): 04003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196204003.
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Business plays a special role in the mechanism of sustainable economic development, since it provides not only the realization of innovative potential, but also the creation of decentralized jobs, as well as additional revenues to budgets of different levels. Periods of economic instability for small business at the local level are a big challenge, because unlike large network structures, small business does not have the ability to diversify risks due to economies of scale. Changing the vector of the national economy development has a special impact on small business, which in developed countries is a driver of economic development. Thus, the digitalization of the economic system entails fundamental changes in the processes of value-added formation: industries are being modernized, trade and procurement procedures, related financial and logistics operations are changing, and consumption patterns are changing against the background of penetration of information technologies. The article considers two key aspects: “small business”, “digitalization of the economic system”. The concept of “digital economy” is considered, its key elements, distinctive features, level of development in various countries are defined. The authors also clarify the distinctive features and structure of small business in the Russian Federation. A comparative analysis of the share of small business in some countries is given, and a model for the functioning of small business at the regional level is described. The authors identify the problems and prospects for the development of small business in a digital economy. The article tackles the issues of the impact of the digital economy on the development of small business and the role of education in this process. The article formulates the main trends of digital transformation that have a significant role for small business at the regional level; the essence of this influence is detailed, possible barriers, new challenges and prospects for the development of small business are indicated.
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Enes, Graça. "Digital platforms and European Union law – challenges from a perspective of multilevel constitutionalism." UNIO – EU Law Journal 5, no. 1 (2019): 16–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/unio.5.1.248.
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Present economy and society are under a “digital revolution”. Digital platforms connect service and product suppliers to recipients all around the world creating new businesses and changing business models in place. Old-fashioned informal gig-economy and sharing practices by using the new technology seem to change consumption and production patterns to more efficient and sustainable ones… or maybe not. This “new economy” also poses several challenges to law questioning the adequacy of concepts and regulations in force. Disputes with authorities and incumbent industries end up in violence or in courts, including the European Court of Justice. We intend to give an overview of those challenges, especially in light of European Union law and following a multilevel constitutionalist approach, which we believe is best suited to respond to the regulatory challenges of this “new economy”.
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Gunawan, Yuli, Bambang Eko, Reta Yudistyana, and Dwi Thia Putri. "Independent Community Building Model through Environmental-based Tourism Management in “Masdarling” Program." Economics Development Analysis Journal 9, no. 2 (2020): 208–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/edaj.v9i2.39339.
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Village tourism program is one of programs that can boost positive contributions to community development. This study aimed to design an independent community building model through environmental-based tourism management. Using primary and secondary data, the researchers used qualitative descriptive analysis to obtain a model of independent community building through environmental-based tourism management by forming a group named environmental awareness community group or Masdarling. In this way, regional potential can be used maximally, while masdarling tourism development was done using Community Based Tourism (CBT). A participative community empowerment became the main instrument to increase environmental living standard and preservation. Based on the mapping of problem patterns, the crucial programs to develop covered tourism awareness community, joint business group and integrated waste management efforts. It was expected that the development of tourism village through several kinds of village groups could explore various and sustainable tourism concepts. As a result, this development could fulfill the criteria of access, attraction, amenities. Upon this achievement, new tourism spots in Bontang City and the increase in community income can be obtained. Also, village economy and environment quality were resulted through the indirect effects of this development.
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Sousa-Zomer, Thayla Tavares de, Vinicius Zago Cantú, and Paulo Augusto Cauchick Miguel. "PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS AS SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES TO MOBILITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO BIKE-SHARING SYSTEMS." Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management 13, no. 3 (2016): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.14488/bjopm.2016.v13.n3.a4.
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Product-Service Systems (PSS) have been discussed as promising business models to redirect the contemporary production and consumption patterns towards sustainability. However, the research on PSS is mostly dictated by theoretical works and more empirical investigations are needed. Additionally, empirical studies that compare PSS solutions situated in different contextual conditions are required. This paper aims at analyzing two use-oriented bike-sharing systems with sustainability potential in order to contribute to PSS empirical body of knowledge. A PSS located in a developed country and another one available in an emerging economy were selected to be investigated. A qualitative analysis was carried out considering the contextual conditions of each solution: PSS elements, sustainable business models components, and sustainability potential, based mainly on secondary data. The results confirmed that these PSS models can provide environmental, economic, and social benefits. The analysis and comparison between the solutions also demonstrated differences in both systems such as integration with other transportation modes and renewable energy usage that may affect customer acceptance and PSS sustainability performance. Customer behavior, acceptance and satisfaction need further study. Understanding the real factors that motivate customers to use a bike-sharing system in different contexts can be useful in efforts to spread its future adoption.
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LI, Yue, and Jianchao XI. "Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Tourist Towns: A Case Study of Huangshui Town, Chongqing." Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 06, no. 04 (2018): 1850028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2345748118500288.
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Tourism urbanization is one of the important patterns of China’s new-type urbanization. Combining Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), ArcGIS spatial analysis and high-resolution remote sensing images, the paper takes a case study of Huangshui Town in Chongqing and explores the socio-spatial features such as the spatial functions, spatial culture and social relations of tourist towns. The research results are as follows: (i) From 2007 to 2017, the number of people permanently living in Huangshui Town over the last 10 years increased from 5,923 to 12,699, up by 2.14 times; the urban construction area expanded from 0.15[Formula: see text]km2 to 1.65[Formula: see text]km2, increased by 11 times. (ii) The space of tourist towns has gradually changed from a homogeneous traditional community tied by blood to a heterogeneous social space containing multiple components and dominated by functions such as residence, business, trade and tourism. (iii) This development pattern is centered at indigenous community-based towns, supplemented by second homes of tourism real estate and extended by tourism clusters featuring pan-leisure services. It is of great practical and theoretical value to the full participation of local indigenous people and the transformation of community functions towards tourism. This pattern prevents the current problem of isolating tourist resorts from local communities, and provides a sustainable development path for the resorts. Besides, this tourism urbanization pattern based on indigenous communities also serves as a correction to the existing creative destruction model, and a boost to the protection and inheritance of culture and ecology and sustainable development of tourist towns.
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Yang, Miaomiao, Juanru Wang, and Jin Yang. "Boundary-spanning search, knowledge integration capability and sustainable competitive advantage." Baltic Journal of Management 16, no. 3 (2021): 446–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bjm-08-2020-0314.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how boundary-spanning search affects sustainable competitive advantage under the conditions that competitors also search and to test the moderating role of knowledge integration capability.Design/methodology/approachThis paper classifies boundary-spanning search into proactive search and responsive search by considering competition and develops a theoretical model in which knowledge integration capability moderates the effects of proactive and responsive searches on sustainable competitive advantage. Empirical analyses were conducted on the data of 245 Chinese advanced manufacturing firms.FindingsThe results show that proactive and responsive searches have inverted U-shaped relationships with sustainable competitive advantage. Moreover, the relationships between proactive and responsive searches and sustainable competitive advantage are moderated by knowledge integration capability. Specifically, as knowledge integration capability increases, the inverted U-shaped relationship between proactive search and sustainable competitive advantage becomes flatter, whereas the inverted U-shaped relationship between responsive search and sustainable competitive advantage becomes almost linear.Originality/valueThis paper enriches the research of boundary-spanning search by considering competition and uncovers how boundary-spanning search affects sustainable competitive advantage under the conditions that competitors also search. Furthermore, this paper sheds light on that the effects of proactive and responsive searches on sustainable competitive advantage are even more complex than inverted U-shaped patterns and provides a contingent viewpoint to deeply understand the relationship between boundary-spanning search and sustainable competitive advantage.
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Tan, Siti Sehat, Rima Purnamayan, Adhe Phoppy WE, Sigid Handoko, Catur Oktivian I.H., and Muhammad Yusron. "Institutional strengthening of farmer groups on sustainable intercropping in Majalengka Regency, West Java Province." E3S Web of Conferences 306 (2021): 02038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130602038.
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The government implements a special effort program (of food self-sufficiency) to achieve national food sovereignty focusing on three commodities (rice, maize, and soybeans). One of the efforts is to increase production with the intercropping pattern (Turiman). The program sustainability must be supported by strong farmer institutions. This study aimed to obtain the information about the farmer groups institution as a strong capital for sustainable farming. This study used a qualitative approach with data related to the assessment problem. This study also used relevant literature to learn the correlation between empirical facts and government programs. The study was conducted in June 2019 in Babakan Village, Majalengka Sub District, Majalengka Regency, West Java Province on 100 respondents. Based on the results, the farmers were still oriented to the monoculture model (maize). The supporting organization as a transformation institution was still very weak as indicated by the organizational structure. The low farmer knowledge on the technology introduced and the farmer group management as a technology transfer agent were still oriented towards monopoly profits. Thus, the Turiman model can be come a consideration for its sustainability. Such conditions require government intervention to achieve the strength farmer group institutions with various appropriate methods, such as assistance in managing organizations and collecting business assets as well as business capital.
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Савчук, Настя П. "ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ ДОЦІЛЬНОСТІ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ІНСТРУМЕНТАРІЮ БЕНЧМАРКІНГУ ДЛЯ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ МАЛОГО ТА СЕРЕДНЬОГО БІЗНЕСУ". Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Series: Economic sciences 143, № 1 (2020): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2413-0117.2020.1.8.
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The article seeks to provide a rationale for using a benchmarking toolkit to enhance the small and medium business efficiency along with exploring the primary types and the content of benchmarking. To assess the possibility of applying benchmarking instruments as to the enterprise business processes, the study offers a framework of indicators to manage the performance efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises. A comparative assessment of the competitiveness of consumer goods manufacturing sectoral structure patterns in Turkey, China and the EU has been carried out. The following criteria to compare the alternatives were selected out of the most significant factors affecting business competitiveness in the given industry: 1) price of finished goods; 2) product quality; 3) payment convenience; 4) meeting customer demands; 5) brand awareness; 6) customer loyalty to a manufacturer. Ranking the factors hindering sustainable development of small and medium businesses allowed to identify the most significant ones, such as: competition resulted from shadow economy, low investment activity, barriers to finished goods sales, acute shortage of qualified personnel, insufficient focus to innovation, lack of effective marketing, lack of domestic equipment and raw materials. To eliminate the negative effects of the impact factors, a hierarchical model of coherent development strategies at different levels (national, regional and the enterprise level) has been suggested through the identification by means of benchmarking the reference samples (standards) for individual components of a consumer goods industry development plan or a set of individual projects. The implementation of this approach contributes to enhancing the investment process, boosting innovation and increasing the efficiency of resources utilization by small and medium businesses.
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Jacobsen, Mette Hove. "Social bases of material consumption: The relationship between social groups and possession of household appliances in Denmark." Journal of Consumer Culture 19, no. 1 (2016): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540516684190.
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In this article, possession of household appliances in Denmark is used to address the role of social groups in reproducing social norms of material consumption practices. This has been down-played in studies engaging with the ‘practice turn’, especially within the sociology of sustainable consumption. Using latent class analysis, four distinct latent subgroups with similar patterns of material consumption are identified and analysed. On the basis of the possession of appliances, these groups are characterised and labelled unlimited, outdated, limited and updated. After assigning the households to the latent group to which they have the highest probability of belonging, the social character of these groups is examined using logit models, thus making explanations of differences in material consumption practices possible. As identified in other domains of consumption, this study found that patterns of material consumption are socially structured. Researchers within the sociology of sustainable consumption have been particularly interested in studying the role of material arrangements and infrastructures in reproducing shared understandings and common procedures. This article argues that, in order to fully understand the dynamic mechanisms of consumption patterns and the possibilities for sustainable development, the field should equally engage with shared understandings generated and reproduced by social groups.
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Ma, Shujie, Zhibo Luo, Shanying Hu, and Dingjiang Chen. "Promoting information technology for the sustainable development of the phosphate fertilizer industry: a case study of Guizhou Province, China." Royal Society Open Science 5, no. 11 (2018): 181160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181160.
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The information technology revolution has brought unprecedented opportunities to the sustainable development of the traditional phosphate fertilizer industry. In this paper, the changes in characteristic indexes during this technological progress and business innovation are investigated at the industrial level and for different stakeholders using scenario simulation analysis based on system dynamics. The results show that information technology will have a significant impact on the traditional fertilizer industry. The popularity of information technology represents a win–win situation for industries, farmers, enterprises and governments. The sustainable development of the phosphate fertilizer industry promoted by information technology means that agrochemical services are a new growth point for the industry, and farmers will be the largest beneficiaries. Enterprises will adjust their product structures to achieve the relevant phosphate reduction goals before 2020. At the government level, the indirect benefits from energy savings, water conservation and reductions in non-point source pollution control treatment also increase significantly. In the new production and sales model, the development of the phosphate fertilizer industry is completely decoupled from resource consumption. In the future, this technological progress will eventually form a sustainable network of industrial innovation patterns. Our finding suggests that the application of information technology in the phosphate fertilizer industry can stimulate the vitality of each entity in the industry and achieve a win–win situation.
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Kalashnikova, Nina. "Promotion of Socially Responsible Behavior Patterns as an Element of Social Responsibility Institutionalization." Logos et Praxis, no. 3 (December 2019): 62–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2019.3.7.
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The study of moral and ethical grounds for socially responsible behavior of representatives of business community and NGOs in Volgograd showed that the predominant importance in the implementation of socially responsible activities for the designated category of citizens have ethically colored individual motives. However, due to these motives, informal initiative cannot completely replace the institutionally organized (systemic) forms of social responsibility, the problem of the lack of which in the region is quite acute. Public dissemination of samples of socially responsible behavior in order to consolidate them in the mass consciousness and transform them into sustainable practices, a certain kind of propaganda (in the narrow sense of the word), will create a systemically organized, institutionalized environment for the implementation of socially responsible behavior. Business structures will be involved in the described environment in appropriate cases. In addition, the institutionalization of social responsibility, through standardization, will become a "resource-saving technology" for organizations implementing a variety of socially oriented programs, allowing to avoid spending extra effort on the "invention" of individual forms of implementation of socially responsible behavior, and distracting from the form, focus on the content. In the future, the institutionalization of social responsibility will help to create the basis for constructive dialogue between government, business and civil society on the basis of increasing self-reflexivity of each of the subjects of social interaction, understanding fully its active role in respect of social and economic change and responsibility for chosen strategy and its implications. Promotion of models of socially responsible behavior, based primarily on moral and ethical grounds, will contribute to the gradual development and improvement of public relations in the region. Media and social networks serve as channels and platforms for broadcasting samples of socially responsible behavior. The means of broadcasting include advertising, socially significant actions of various scales. The transformation of social responsibility into a trend will change the thinking of both the initiators of socially oriented activities in the face of the heads of organizations and its addressees.