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Silvius, A. J. Gilbert, and Ron Schipper. "Exploring the relationship between sustainability and project success - conceptual model and expected relationships." International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 4, no. 3 (February 2, 2022): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.12821/ijispm040301.
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Sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. Companies are integrating sustainability in their marketing, communication and their actions. Sustainability has more recently also been linked to project management. The logic behind this link is that sustainability needs change and projects are realizing change. Several studies explored how the concept of sustainability impact project management. The research project reported in this paper elaborates on these works by studying how sustainability affects project success. Project managers, logically, strive for project success and considering sustainability may influence this success. Based upon a review of relevant literature, the paper develops a conceptual model that provides a more detailed understanding of how considering different dimensions of sustainability may affect the individual criteria of project success. The study also provides a conceptual mapping of the different relationships between dimensions of sustainability and criteria of project success. This mapping shows that the most positive relationships are expected for the relationship between sustainability and the success criteria stakeholder satisfaction, future readiness and controlled project execution. The expected relationship between considering sustainability and completing the project on schedule and within budget is uncertain.
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Nkiinebari Patrick PhD, Nwinyokpugi, and Ezeukwu, Kate Chukwunonso. "Stakeholders Management Indicators: The Business Sustainability Inference." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis 05, no. 10 (October 17, 2022): 2789–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijmra/v5-i10-30.
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The study investigated the relationship between stakeholder relationship management and business sustainability indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The study population comprised of the ten (10) indigenous oil and gas producing companies operating in Rivers State. The research selected variated number of managers from each of the firms under study making it a total sample of sixty two (66) respondents. Data were generated from the respondents by the use of a close-ended structured questionnaire. Pearson’s product moment correlation, partial correlation and multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses with the aid of statistical packages for social science (SPSS) version 23.0. The p-values were calculated to determine the significance of the hypothesized relationship. Analytical outcomes revealed statistically positive and significant relationships between the dimensions of our predictor variable-stakeholder relationship management and the measures of the criterion variable-business sustainability. Based on the findings, the study concluded that stakeholder relationship management has a positive significant relationship with business sustainability of indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The study further recommended that Managers of indigenous oil and gas producing companies should capitalize on the pivot role of stakeholders’ interest in their operations to ensure their business sustainability; Managers of indigenous oil and gas producing companies should seek to build strong relationships with their host communities in line with their company policies and practices aimed at achieving business sustainability; Managers of indigenous oil and gas producing companies should apply objectivity in their employee relationship processes as this has the potency to either ruin or enhance their business sustainability
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Ng, Michael C. M. "Competitiveness and Sustainability Relationships in Taiwan." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 6, no. 1 (2010): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v06i01/54723.
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O’Dochartaigh, Aideen. "Stakeholder Relationships, Engagement, and Sustainability Reporting." Social and Environmental Accountability Journal 37, no. 3 (September 2, 2017): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969160x.2017.1376909.
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Bask, Anu, Mervi Rajahonka, Sini Laari, Tomi Solakivi, Juuso Töyli, and Lauri Ojala. "Environmental sustainability in shipper-LSP relationships." Journal of Cleaner Production 172 (January 2018): 2986–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.112.
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Herremans, Irene M., Jamal A. Nazari, and Fereshteh Mahmoudian. "Stakeholder Relationships, Engagement, and Sustainability Reporting." Journal of Business Ethics 138, no. 3 (March 29, 2015): 417–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2634-0.
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Rincon-Roldan, Francisco, and Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales. "The impact of employment relationships on firm sustainability." Employee Relations: The International Journal 44, no. 2 (October 13, 2021): 386–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-12-2020-0522.
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PurposeThe aim of this study was to analyse the influence of different employment relationships (ERs) on the sustainability results of cooperatives. The authors approached the type of ER comparing the inducements offered by the firm with the contributions that the manager expects from employees. In this way, the authors study how the orientation toward the employment relationship influences the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the firm.Design/methodology/approachThis article presents a theoretical and empirical research model about the relationship between ERs and sustainability. The necessary information was obtained through a questionnaire that was completed by the human resource (HR) managers and chief executive officers (CEOs) of 124 cooperative companies, and structural equation modelling was applied to evaluate the relationships between the proposed constructs, using the partial least squares technique (PLS-SEM).FindingsThe obtained results suggest that mutual investment and overinvestment ERs favour economic, social and environmental sustainability, whereas quasi spot contract and underinvestment ERs have a negative influence on all three types of sustainability. Therefore, it is confirmed that the type of ER adopted can condition the sustainability of the company, either favouring or worsening it.Originality/valueThis work contributes to covering the lack of studies about which ERs impact the sustainability of organisations, and it provides information on the role of ERs in the search for a more sustainable organisation, demonstrating that the type of employment relationship developed by the firm has a relevant impact on its sustainability.
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Glenn Sigurdson, S. "Commentary: Inside CSR: Consensus, Sustainability and Relationships." Journal of Corporate Citizenship 2001, no. 2 (June 1, 2001): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.9774/gleaf.4700.2001.su.00006.
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Guidotti, Tee L. "Health and Sustainability: A Taxonomy of Relationships." ISEE Conference Abstracts 2013, no. 1 (September 19, 2013): 5874. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/isee.2013.s-2-39-03.
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Ayyub, Bilal M. "Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability: Definitions and Relationships." ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering 6, no. 3 (September 2020): 02520001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/ajrua6.0001067.
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Marín-Rodríguez, Nini Johana, Juan David González-Ruiz, and Alejandro Valencia-Arias. "Sustainability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Time-Frequency Relationships." Sustainability 15, no. 18 (September 12, 2023): 13589. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151813589.
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This study investigates the interconnected dynamics among the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and two volatility indexes, the Cboe Volatility Index and ICE BofA MOVE Index. It examines their relationships and causalities within daily data spanning from January 2014 to July 2023. The research employs wavelet power spectrum (WPS) and wavelet coherence analyses (WCA) to delve into these interconnections. The wavelet power spectrum reveals noteworthy volatility spikes in the indexes during specific periods linked to geopolitical occurrences, the COVID-19 pandemic, and global uncertainties. A wavelet coherence analysis unveils how the DJ Sustainability World Index significantly influences the Cboe Volatility Index and ICE BofA MOVE Index across short, medium, and long-term perspectives, albeit with variations in certain periods. The empirical findings underscore the intricate relationships between sustainability and volatility indexes, shedding light on their nuanced causal interplay over time. The insights from this study hold paramount implications for policy-makers, investors, and financial institutions navigating a complex and uncertain landscape. The identified relationships between sustainability and market volatility can aid in making informed decisions. This research adds original value by uncovering the time-varying relationships between sustainability and volatility indexes, revealing their interdependencies across diverse temporal scales. Given the observed causal relationships, policy-makers and investors are recommended to consider sustainability-related developments when assessing market volatility. This proactive approach can lead to more informed decision making and effective risk management strategies.
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Li, Taimin, Afzal Izzaz Zahari, and Soliha Sanusi. "The Sustainability of Technological Innovation in China: From the Perspective of Network Relationships." Sustainability 15, no. 5 (February 27, 2023): 4242. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15054242.
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Sustainable technological innovation is a key factor for companies seeking competitive advantage. Against the backdrop of the Sino-US trade war, the US government has been severely impeding Chinese enterprises’ technological innovation with its trade policies. Consequently, how to ensure the sustainability of technological innovation is a huge challenge for Chinese enterprises. In the Chinese context of a relationship-based society, network relationships have been instrumental in the process of technological innovation. This study constructs a theoretical model, with market dynamics as the moderator, exploring the impact of three dimensions of network relationships (network relationship selection, network relationship maintenance, and network relationship utilization) on sustainable technological innovation via an empirical analysis of 208 Chinese technology companies. The results of this study indicate that network relationship selection, network relationship maintenance, and network relationship utilization have a positive effect on sustainable technological innovation. Furthermore, the moderating effect of market dynamics on the association between network relationships and sustainable technological innovation is also confirmed. This study contributes to resource-based theory and dynamic capability theory by demonstrating how network relationships influence sustainable technological innovation in varying market dynamics. This study provides a better understanding of the role of network relationships in sustainable technological innovation and suggests that managers should pay attention to the selection, maintenance, and utilization of network relationships in order to achieve sustainable technological innovation. Additionally, managers should also consider market dynamics when making decisions related to network relationships, as they can have a significant impact on sustainable technological innovation.
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Nogueira, Mafalda, Bruno Silva, and Sandra Gomes. "The Impact of Customer-Centric Sustainability on Brand Relationships." Sustainability 15, no. 16 (August 10, 2023): 12212. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151612212.
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This paper contributes to the existing but scarce literature on customer-centric sustainability and measures consumers’ perceptions of fast-fashion brands regarding economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Furthermore, it aims to test the impact of each dimension of customer–brand relationships, specifically brand trust, affective brand commitment, and continuance brand commitment. A research model and nine hypotheses were tested through multiple linear regressions using a convenience sample of 228 Portuguese fast-fashion consumers. It also provides additional insights into how consumers’ perceptions of the three dimensions of sustainability might affect customer–brand relationships, namely brand trust and brand commitment. The results reveal a significant relationship between all dimensions of customer-centric sustainability and brand trust. Furthermore, economic sustainability and social sustainability were found to significantly predict effective brand commitment. Additionally, this study demonstrates that brand trust positively influences consumers’ intentions to maintain long-term relationships with fast-fashion brands. The implications of the results are discussed in detail, shedding light on the importance of incorporating customer-centric sustainability practices into brand management strategies within the fast-fashion industry. Further elaboration and discussion of the results can be found in this study.
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Ketprapakorn, Nuttasorn, and Sooksan Kantabutra. "Sustainable Social Enterprise Model: Relationships and Consequences." Sustainability 11, no. 14 (July 10, 2019): 3772. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11143772.
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The present study develops a sustainable social enterprise model and examines relationships between corporate sustainability practices and sustainability performance outputs in a social healthcare enterprise in Thailand. Findings reveal four predictors of corporate sustainability, including Leadership, Stakeholder Focus, Resilience Development, and Sharing practices. All of them have direct and/or indirect positive effects on corporate sustainability performance outputs as measured by brand equity, socioeconomic performance and environmental performance. The study also proposes a coherent theory of Sufficiency Economy in business, build upon key theories from relevant fields. Lastly, the present study provides future research directions and managerial implications based upon the model.
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Pereira-Moliner, Jorge, María D. López-Gamero, Xavier Font, José F. Molina-Azorín, Juan José Tarí, and Eva M. Pertusa-Ortega. "Sustainability, Competitive Advantages and Performance in the Hotel Industry: A Synergistic Relationship." Journal of Tourism and Services 12, no. 23 (December 22, 2021): 132–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.29036/jots.v12i23.282.
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The relationship between sustainability, competitive advantages, and performance is a topic with no conclusive results in the tourism industry. To contribute to the debate, the purpose of this study is i) to analyze the influence of sustainability on cost and differentiation competitive advantages and ii) to examine the possible synergistic relationship between sustainability and performance. Perceptual as well as hotel-specific objective performance measurements are used, such as occupancy rate, average daily rate (ADR), and revenues per available room (RevPAR), to examine all the relationships. Structural equation models based on Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) are applied to test all the hypotheses. Data is collected from 3-, 4- and 5-star hotels in Spain. The results show that sustainability positively and significantly influences cost and differentiation advantages, perceptual performance, ADR, and RevPAR. In addition, those hotels with these three performance variables whose values are above the median obtain a significant relationship between sustainability and performance. Consequently, there is evidence of a synergistic sustainability-performance relationship in the hotel industry. Therefore, this study offers academic evidence on the strong relationships that exist between these variables in the hotel industry. This research work analyses all three sustainability pillars (economic, environmental, and social sustainability), and the practices that best explain each of the three sustainability pillars are indicated so that hotel managers can optimize their sustainable management.
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Blackstock, Kirsty L., Elizabeth A. Kirk, and Alison D. Reeves. "Sociology, Science and Sustainability: Developing Relationships in Scotland." Sociological Research Online 10, no. 2 (July 2005): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1097.
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This paper considers the application of the sociological imagination during the analysis of data collected during an ethnographic study of an environmental regulator, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). SEPA is tasked with implementing the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Scotland, which will radically alter the regulation of water use. Applying a sociological imagination allowed the researcher to advocate for a more interdisciplinary and equitable understanding of sustainable water use when feeding back initial research results at the end of the data collection period. The researchers introduced socialised definitions of the environment, which linked social justice and ecological concerns. These insights provided a challenge to the traditional bio-physical science focus of the organisational participants, for whom sustainability is a relatively new addition to their duties. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of developing these interdisciplinary relationships in the future.
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Meng, Junna, Bin Xue, Bingsheng Liu, and Ning Fang. "Relationships between top managers’ leadership and infrastructure sustainability." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 22, no. 6 (November 16, 2015): 692–714. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-01-2014-0013.
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Prihandono, Dorojatun, Andhi Wijayanto, and Dwi Cahyaningdyah. "Franchise business sustainability model: Role of conflict risk management in Indonesian franchise businesses." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 3 (September 21, 2021): 383–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(3).2021.31.
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Franchising is one of the most trustworthy strategic alliance formations to start or expand businesses. Like many other business formations, franchise businesses need sustainable and long-term running; these objectives can be reached by a proper relationship between partners – the franchisor and the franchisee – in the alliances. Both partners’ perspectives are valuable inputs to provide insight into understanding the sustainability of Indonesian franchise businesses. Furthermore, in any type of strategic alliances conflict is a risk that needs to be managed properly. This study aims to examine the relationships of determinants that influence franchise business sustainability. The determinants are risk management, trust, satisfaction, and sustainability. The study applies confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling (SEM) AMOS software. Respondents in this study are franchisors and franchisees in the Indonesian retail and food and beverages (F&B) sectors, the study accommodates 204 respondents. Based on the analysis the study reveals that there is a positive relationship between risk management and satisfaction. Risk management also has a positive relationship with survivability; trust and satisfaction also have a positive relationship. Meanwhile, there is no relationship between satisfaction and survivability and the last relationship is between trust and survivability that has no positive relationship between the determinants. This study provides clearer insight to understand the relationships between determinants that influence franchise business survivability in Indonesia, especially based on both parties’ perspectives.
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Fazli, Haleem, Sami Farooq, Cheng Yang, and Brian Vejrum Wæhrens. "Proactive and Reactive Approaches towards Sustainable Practices in Manufacturing Companies: Emerging Economies Perspective." Sustainability 15, no. 17 (August 24, 2023): 12796. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151712796.
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This study aims to analyse the two competing conceptual models driving the relationships of external pressure, sustainable practices, and sustainability performance. The understanding of such relationships is important in enabling manufacturers to strategically manage external pressure and engage in sustainable transition. Using a sample of 202 plants from the Sixth International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS-VI), this research tests two hypotheses: (1) the role of sustainable practices in mediating the relationship between external pressure and environmental and social performance, and (2) the role of external pressure in moderating the link between sustainable practices and environmental and social performance. These hypotheses are tested through the hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrapping method. The findings show the mediating role of sustainable practices in the relationship between external pressure and environmental performance, suggesting a reactive approach to environmentally oriented sustainable practices adoption. Furthermore, the results show the moderating role of external pressure on the relationship between sustainable practices and social performance, indicating that plants take a proactive approach to the adoption of socially oriented sustainable practices for improving social performance of the buying firms, whereas there is no moderating effect for environmental performance. Studies addressing the relationships between external pressure, sustainable practices, and sustainability performance in the context of emerging economies (China and India) are limited, so there is a need to address these relationships in this context for generalisation. Studies that address the sustainability outcomes consisting of both environmental and social performance of the reactive and proactive approaches to sustainability initiatives in emerging economies are lacking. This research adds to the literature by investigating the sustainability outcomes of reactive and proactive methods in two emerging countries, China and India. The distinction between reactive and proactive approaches has important implications for sustainability performance in the context of emerging economies, as the rapid growth of these economies raises a number of sustainability issues.
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Garrigos-Simon, Fernando, M. Botella-Carrubi, and Tomas Gonzalez-Cruz. "Social Capital, Human Capital, and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (December 13, 2018): 4751. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124751.
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Academic interest in social and human capital is growing significantly. Similarly, their relationship with sustainability is increasing, especially compared to sustainability’s relationship with natural capital and financial and economic capital. Bibliometric and visualization research on these relationships is nonetheless insufficient. This study analyzes the evolution of the literature on natural capital, financial and economic capital, and social and human capital related to sustainability. On the other hand, the study presents a bibliometric analysis on social capital and human capital (SHC) related to sustainability. The article studies 635 references collected from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database and utilizes visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer program to graphically map the material. The analysis involves co-occurrence of keywords, co-citation, and co-authorship. The results reveal not only the state of the art and the leading trends, but also the evolution regarding impact, main journals, documents, topics, authors, institutions, and countries. The study provides researchers and practitioners with a visual and schematic frame of the research on this topic.
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Ha, Van Duong. "The Interactive and Causal Relationship between Productivity and Financial Sustainability of People's Credit Funds in Vietnam." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 9, no. 1 (January 10, 2020): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2020-0010.
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Productivity and financial sustainability are the most complex areas of financial decision making due to its interrelationship with other financial decisions variables. At the same time, productivity and financial sustainability are factors affecting the operations and the goals of people's credit funds (PCFs) in Vietnam. The purpose of this study is to discover the interaction and causal relationship between productivity and financial sustainability and to examine factors that affect productivity and financial sustainability of PCFs. After regression analysis on a set of panel data from 2013 to 2018 of tweenty-four selected PCFs in Vietnam, it appears that deposit, credit growth rate and financial sustainability have positive relationships with productivity; depth of outreach has a negative relationship with productivity. Productivity, capital adequacy ratio, income have positive relationships with financial sustainability; credit growth rate has a negative impact on financial sustainability. The study finds bidirectional interactions and the causal relationship between productivity and financial sustainability. Based on the findings the study proposes policy measures that could be implemented by the managers of PCFs to increase productivity and ensure a more efficient distribution of economic resources. Beside, this study recommends that managers of PCFs and helps researchers, managers to understand the key determinants for better management of PCFs.
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TANIELIAN, ADAM. "Sustainability and Competitiveness in Thai Rubber Industries." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 36, no. 1 (July 4, 2018): 50–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v36i1.5512.
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This article assesses the economic, legal and environmental conditions that Thai rubber farmers face and evaluates actions they can take to increase incomes.Statistical analyses determine relationships between prices of oil, natural and synthetic rubber. Pearson correlation tests found a strong positive relationship (r = 0.887) between the price of Brent crude and Thai ribbed smoked sheets, and a moderate positive relationship between price changes in Brent and synthetic rubber (r = 0.648). Regression analysis showed Brent oil price is a good predictor of natural rubber price. Moderate to strong positive relationships were also found between natural rubber price and the gross domestic products of Japan, China and the United States. Criminal antitrust behaviour in the rubber industries appeared to interfere with normal pricing in rubber markets. No significant bivariate correlation was found between rainfall in Thailand and natural rubber price, production or export, although fl ooding and other environmental issues clearly affected rubber farms. A survey of options showed that Thai rubber farmers can best improve their livelihoods through the collective purchase and use of new technologies and by integrating into downstream supplychain industries. At the very least, farmers are urged to abandon monocrop methods and supplement their incomes with fruit, fi sh, livestock or pigs.
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Al-Shuridah, Obaid Mobarak, and Nelson Oly Ndubisi. "The Effect of Sustainability Orientation on CRM Adoption." Sustainability 15, no. 13 (June 25, 2023): 10054. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151310054.
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As research stresses the relevance of sustainability orientation and the necessity of viewing it as a key source of organizations’ competitive advantage, interest in it from a number of academic fields is growing and gaining ground. Furthermore, organizations are under tremendous pressure to be more socially responsible and environmentally sustainable while staying customer-focused. This has resulted in the development of the practice of customer relationship management (CRM) towards sustainability, which considers social, economic, and environmental implications while developing fruitful, long-term customer relationships. The main goal of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between individuals’ sustainability beliefs and their intention to use CRM systems (intention) and commitment to organizations that provide CRM systems (commitment). It is proposed that sustainability orientation indirectly predicts two outcome constructs, intention and commitment, through two mediators, namely, attitude towards using CRM systems and trust in firms providing such systems. The data were collected from Australia using an online survey panel with a total of 303 completed responses. The results showed that the hypothesized relationships between sustainability orientation and attitude towards using CRM systems and trust in the firms providing CRM systems were all significant and in the proposed direction. Attitude and trust were found to significantly affect intention to adopt CRM systems and commitment to the firms that provide such systems, confirming the hypothesized mediation role of attitude and trust. Furthermore, this mediation was partial since there were significant and direct relationships between sustainability orientation and the two outcome constructs, intention and commitment.
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Tanveer, Muhammad, Abdul-Rahim Ahmad, Haider Mahmood, and Ikram Ul Haq. "Role of Ethical Marketing in Driving Consumer Brand Relationships and Brand Loyalty: A Sustainable Marketing Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 12 (June 17, 2021): 6839. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13126839.
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This research is focused on studying the impact of ethical marketing practices on value-adding product sustainability and customer brand relationship sustainability. It further investigates the consequent effects of value-adding product sustainability and customer brand relationship sustainability on brand loyalty. Data for this study were collected from a sample of 1500 customers having multiple interactions with goods and brands of retail organizations in Pakistan. We employed structural equation modeling (SEM) using SPSS 24.0 to analyze our data. The findings of this paper provide empirical support to the proposed relationships. More specifically, ethical marketing practices were found to have a significant impact on value-adding product sustainability and customer-value brand relationship sustainability. The findings also support a positive impacts of value-adding product sustainability and customer-value brand relationship sustainability on brand loyalty. This study provides some valuable implications for the theory and practice in that it identifies and empirically validates key ethical marketing factors affecting loyalty in business-to-consumer interactions. Besides, this study advocates implications for firms regarding some key aspects of ethical marketing practices that should be strengthened to achieve sustained brand loyalty.
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Carvalho, Ana Barreiros de, Giancarlo Petrini, Laise da Cruz Macena, and Caislana Raila de Oliveira Lima. "Social sustainability and family relations." Concilium 23, no. 3 (March 3, 2023): 329–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.53660/clm-895-23b42.
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As a result of the theme of social sustainability and family relationships and the extension of the sustainability and development categories, a need was perceived to investigate the importance of the family in contributing to a more cooperative and solidary sociability, more capable of promoting peace and dialogue and sustainable development. This article aims to identify which characteristics of family relationships favor social sustainability, establishing a connection between the contributions of family relationships and sustainable development. We will adopt a qualitative and interdisciplinary approach, through an exploratory bibliographic survey in books, reports, government websites and academic articles from Google Scholar, Scielo, Capes and Research Gate journals, which allowed us to consider that the family is the place where they are trained. the attitudes necessary for coexistence to be more humanized and sociability more proactive, characterized by cooperation and solidarity among its members, characteristics necessary for sustainable social development.
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Kim, Chang-Soo, John Dinwoodie, and Young-Joon Seo. "Inter-Firm Cooperation and Collaboration in Shipper—Shipping Company Relationships for Enhancing Sustainability." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (October 16, 2018): 3714. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103714.
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This paper aims to reveal the relationship between cooperation, trust, and sustainability, and to uncover whether cooperation, trust, and sustainability is nested within collaboration in shipper–shipping company relationships. Structural equation modeling identified that cooperation has a positive effect on trust, which partially mediates the impact of cooperation on sustainability. Sub-constructs of cooperation included transparency, fairness, and mutuality. Fairness is the prime antecedent of trust, and developing fairness can create more effective and high-quality relationships among firms. A fuller theoretical model reveals how inter-firm cooperation may progress to collaboration, and why transparency does not necessarily lead to trust.
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Ojaide, Tanure. "Udje, Ecosystem, and Sustainability." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 4 (January 2023): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.4.05.
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ABSTRACT: Recent scholarly publications on African literature discuss the African environment and the need to “naturalize” it as if the continent’s environment is not or has not been “natural.” By looking at only recent written African literature and not studying African oral literatures, the works on environmentalism have missed important parts of what the African creative mind has done before later postcolonial writers started. It is this gap that this essay on udje, an African oral poetic genre, is used to fill. This essay looks at how African oral poets made use of land that embraces bush/forests and water with its resources to express the congenial relationship between human and nonhuman beings. The physical environment becomes a repository of tropes to express human relationships and existential ideas. Oral literatures such as udje expressed a complementarity that newer literary works lack and so should be studied for a holistic environmental condition and solution.
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Ojaide, Tanure. "Udje, Ecosystem, and Sustainability." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 4 (January 2023): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2023.a905361.
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ABSTRACT: Recent scholarly publications on African literature discuss the African environment and the need to “naturalize” it as if the continent’s environment is not or has not been “natural.” By looking at only recent written African literature and not studying African oral literatures, the works on environmentalism have missed important parts of what the African creative mind has done before later postcolonial writers started. It is this gap that this essay on udje, an African oral poetic genre, is used to fill. This essay looks at how African oral poets made use of land that embraces bush/forests and water with its resources to express the congenial relationship between human and nonhuman beings. The physical environment becomes a repository of tropes to express human relationships and existential ideas. Oral literatures such as udje expressed a complementarity that newer literary works lack and so should be studied for a holistic environmental condition and solution.
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Boerchers, Morrissa, A. John Sinclair, Robert B. Gibson, and Norman M. Halden. "“Sustainability is finding the next mine”: The complicated relationships among legacies, sustainability, and EA." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 71 (July 2018): 84–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2018.01.002.
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Khin, Aye Aye, Mei Peng Low, Moe Shwe Sin, Seethaletchumy Thambiah, and Soh Chong Yu. "Sustainability of Women’s Employment Rate for Malaysian Economic Development." Jurnal Institutions and Economies 13, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol13no3.3.
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This research paper develops a model for the sustainability of women’s employment rate in Malaysia’s economic development. This study examined annual data from 1982 to 2018, with 37 observations. A new econometric method was adopted to determine both short-run and long-run relationships among the variables using the Johansen Cointegration rank test, Vector Error Correction Method (VECM) with error correction model of cointegration equation. The VECM results revealed significant and positive short-term relationships between foreign direct investment, gross domestic product (GDP), and the negative short-term relationship of the lagged period of women’s employment rate to women employment rate (WER). The variables, GDP, education level, and women’s marital status are cointegrated and have a long-term relationship between WER in the cointegration equation. The Johansen Cointegration rank test also showed the existence of cointegration equations, and a long-term relationship between the variables. Eventually, the residual diagnosis, significant error term, and the performance of the model evaluation were found as satisfactory and valid. In short, this research paves the way for policymakers to construct a better policy for the future of women’s employment sustainability.
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Bag, Surajit, Shivam Gupta, and Arnesh Telukdarie. "Exploring the relationship between unethical practices, buyer–supplier relationships and green design for sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Engineering 11, no. 2 (September 20, 2017): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2017.1376723.
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Corrales-Estrada, Ana Maria, Loyda Lily Gómez-Santos, Cesar Augusto Bernal-Torres, and Jaime Eric Rodriguez-López. "Sustainability and Resilience Organizational Capabilities to Enhance Business Continuity Management: A Literature Review." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (July 22, 2021): 8196. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158196.
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Although organizational sustainability and organizational resilience are critical dynamic capabilities for business continuity management, especially in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, there are few studies that analyze the relationship between these three concepts to understand risks management. For this reason, our study analyzes these relationships to contribute to a better understanding of the subject and to propose future lines of research. We use bibliometric and content analysis, based on the Web Of Science and Scopus databases, during the period between 1998 and 13 May 2021. Main findings indicate that there is a bidirectional relationship between organizational sustainability capabilities and organizational resilience capabilities, but there is not enough evidence of their relationship with business continuity management. Additionally, results allow us to infer that there are four groups of relationships between them: (1) From Risk Management to Business Continuity Management and Organizational Resilience; (2) Resilience and Business Continuity practices; (3) Business Continuity contribution to Innovation and Sustainability; (4) Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Sustainability and Organizational Resilience to enhance Business Continuity Management. Moreover, different stages were identified to understand the impact of organizational sustainability capabilities and organizational resilience capabilities on business continuity management facing disruptive events.
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Lueg, Klarissa, and Rainer Lueg. "Detecting Green-Washing or Substantial Organizational Communication: A Model for Testing Two-Way Interaction Between Risk and Sustainability Reporting." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 23, 2020): 2520. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062520.
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This paper contributes to the expanding landscape of methodological approaches and tools for investigating organizational sustainability communication. Our method allows for exploring two-way interactions between company risk and sustainability reporting. We present a basic but extendable method, while using only publicly available data. Our method adds additional features to established methods: It covers only risk (not returns), as theory mainly supports risk-reporting relationships and not return-reporting relationships. It tests for reverse causality of the risk-reporting relationship and links complementary explanations to different theoretical schools. Our method tests the model by employing data from a market with mandatory sustainability reporting to avoid self-selection bias.
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Rao, Indu. "Psychological Contract for Human Development and Organizational Sustainability." Business Perspectives and Research 9, no. 3 (March 1, 2021): 415–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2278533721989832.
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Organizations can sustain different efforts toward human development, and employee–employer relationships can sustain the organizations to work toward their purpose. However, contemporary organizations are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of COVID-19, intensified globalization, increasingly diversified workforce, and continuous technological advancements, thereby impacting the way businesses and people are managed. Most of the work has transitioned to online, and employees are working from home due to pandemic situations. Organizations need to manage the emerging, complex employee–employer relationships in this new order of the world for the purpose of human development as well as organizational sustainability. In the absence of frequent employee–employer meetings at physical workplaces and the transition of the workspace into virtual workstations, we need to look at new ways of initiating and sustaining employee–employer relationships. In this conceptual article, we propose that different types of psychological contracts, like relational and transactional contracts, can contribute to these goals. Through a conceptual analysis of relevant literature, we first examine different aspects of the psychological contract—its types, antecedents, and consequences of different types of contract on organizations. Sustainable human development is related to organizational sustainability. We propose that a relational psychological contract may help in sustainable human development as well as organizational sustainability, whereas a transactional psychological contract moderates the relationship between sustainable human development and organizational sustainability.
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E-Vahdati, Sahar, Nor Azila Mohd Noor, Pei Yew Mah, Francis Chuah, and Filzah Md Isa. "Social and Environmental Sustainability, Workers’ Well-Being, and Affective Organizational Commitment in Palm Oil Industries." Sustainability 15, no. 12 (June 13, 2023): 9514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15129514.
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This paper examines the relationship between social and environmental sustainability and workers’ well-being as well as the mediation role of affective organizational commitment for those relationships through social exchange and stakeholder theories. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 112 workers employed in palm oil plantations in Malaysia. Structural equation modeling was then applied to examine the hypotheses. Findings show that social and environmental sustainability positively relates to workers’ well-being. We also found that affective commitment positively mediates social and environmental sustainability relationships with workers’ well-being. Our research findings have practical implications for various stakeholders, such as investors, policymakers, and managers in the palm oil industry. Our results highlight the importance of addressing the well-being of workers and the sustainability factors in palm oil plantations. This study suggests a widened perspective on sustainability factors and well-being which allows professionals to evaluate and enhance sustainability across their operations in a more comprehensive manner.
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Khalifeh, Amin, Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan, Mohammed Kasem Alrousan, Husam Yaseen, Belal Mathani, and Firas Rashed Wahsheh. "Exploring the Nexus of Sustainability and Project Success: A Proposed Framework for the Software Sector." Sustainability 15, no. 22 (November 15, 2023): 15957. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152215957.
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In the last two decades, there have been many calls to integrate sustainability into projects. However, there are conflicting views about the relationship between sustainability and project success. Some contend that project sustainability could adversely affect project success, while others maintain the contrary. Yet, the exploration of this relationship has been insufficient thus far. Notably, no existing work specifically investigates this relationship within the software domain. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute significantly by introducing a conceptual framework that assists in inspecting the relationships between software project sustainability (SPS) and project success. The proposed framework was developed based on well-defined aspects of both concepts. The findings show that most of the relationships between the two concepts are expected to be significant and positive. Our propositions were built after analysing the best of relevant contributions. However, an empirical examination is needed, especially with the presence of control variables such as country, company size, and project complexity. This work could be an initial motion for future empirical studies and provide a significant theoretical foundation for researchers and practitioners in this domain.
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Mason and Turner. "Cultural Sustainability: A Framework for Relationships, Understanding, and Action." Journal of American Folklore 133, no. 527 (2020): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.133.527.0081.
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Kinge, Josie. "Testing times: the development and sustainability of partnership relationships." International Journal of Human Resource Management 25, no. 6 (March 5, 2013): 852–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2013.763847.
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Vildåsen, Sigurd Sagen, and Malena Ingemansson Havenvid. "The role of interaction for corporate sustainability." IMP Journal 12, no. 1 (March 12, 2018): 148–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imp-05-2017-0016.
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Purpose Most scholars acknowledge the role of firm-stakeholder relationship for enabling corporate sustainability (CS), but existing literature tends to apply a superficial understanding of interaction. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge by challenging classical stakeholder theory with fundamental insights from the IMP perspective, which in turn leads to a deeper conceptualization of interactive CS. Design/methodology/approach A typology framework is developed through an abductive research design grounded in the concepts of actors, resources, and activities. The authors illustrate the potential of the framework through a longitudinal case study. The empirical case revolves around an initiative for recycling of plastic material in a partly beforehand established supply chain, and the study reveals three main findings. Findings First, recycling solutions can result in major technological challenges. For example, using recycled material can jeopardize industrial quality standards. Second, third-party stakeholders represent critical knowledge and competence that can remedy technological challenges. Finally, R&D projects are important means for developing firm-stakeholder relationships. Research limitations/implications The paper introduces IMP concepts to the CS debate, which can illuminate the emerging literature on tensions and paradoxes related to CS phenomena. Further research is needed on the role of non-business actors as capacity generators for social and environmental change in traditional business networks. Practical implications The proposed framework can be used to analyze why some stakeholders (individuals and groups) turn into contributing actors in inter-organizational relationships, while others remain latent. Originality/value This paper illustrates the usefulness of actor bonds, resource ties and activity links as explanatory concepts. Moreover, developed relationships in terms of collaboration and networks represent a capacity to change, which is overlooked in current CS debates.
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Anderson, Beverlee B. "Corruption levels of countries and progress on ensuring environmental sustainability." World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 12, no. 2 (April 7, 2015): 90–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wjstsd-02-2015-0007.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships of selected measures of environmental sustainability and the level of corruption within countries. Design/methodology/approach – The design uses secondary data from Transparency International on perception of corruption within countries. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) environmental sustainability assessment is one measure of environmental sustainability used in the study. World Bank data on CPIA Policies and institutes for environmental sustainability that foster and protect sustainable use of natural resources and manage pollution and its data on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of the percent of population with access to improved drinking water were two specific measures used to indicate environmental sustainability. A series of statistical tests were used to examine the relationships among perceptions of corruption and a country’s policies and reported improvements in environmental sustainability. Findings – The findings are mixed; the level of corruption does not appear to always be negatively associated with environmental sustainability as was expected. Research limitations/implications – The research is limited by the availability of data from reliable sources over a period of time. The corruption data, while the best available, are based on opinions and perceptions. Only selected aspects of a country’s environmental sustainability were examined; these included the Environmental Sustainability Index, evaluations of selected countries; policies and institutions; and the improvement in the percent of the population with access to safe drinking water. Social implications – In general, the less corruption, the better the record of environmental sustainability. However, corruption may not be a negative influence on specific selected aspects of environmental sustainability as would be anticipated. Originality/value – This study examines selected aspects of the potential relationships between corruption and environmental sustainability measures. There is little, if any, research into this relationship.
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Tsou, Hung-Tai, Chieh-Chih Hou, Ja-Shen Chen, and Minh-Chau Ngo. "Rethinking Sustainability Hotel Branding: The Pathways from Hotel Services to Brand Engagement." Sustainability 14, no. 16 (August 16, 2022): 10138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141610138.
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Brand experience has received attention from scholars and researchers, especially in experiential marketing and management. Due to the high market competition and sustainability branding trends, hotel brands need to improve and enhance their hotel services to meet customers’ expectations and retain their engagement and loyalty to the brand. This study explores the relationships between hotel services (servicescape and employee service), brand experience (internal and behavioral responses), brand engagement, and brand loyalty. Web-based and paper-based surveys were used to collect data from the customers who have experienced hotel services in Vietnam. A total of 390 responses were used and analyzed by AMOS. The results show that there are positive relationships between hotel services, internal responses, and brand engagement. In addition, the moderating effects of brand loyalty on the relationship between brand experience and brand engagement were found. Although prior studies have been conducted in the servicescape and employee service fields, there remains less empirical research addressing the relationships between hotel services and brand experience. In addition, the examination of brand loyalty playing a moderator in the relationship between brand experience and brand engagement has not been adequately explored, so this study contributes to the brand loyalty literature.
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Kantabutra, Sooksan. "Exploring Relationships among Sustainability Organizational Culture Components at a Leading Asian Industrial Conglomerate." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 5, 2021): 1733. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041733.
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Although it is well recognized that organizational culture is important for ensuring corporate sustainability, most existing models on an organizational culture do not have a sustainability-oriented organizational culture. While a few models about sustainability organizational culture are available, they focus on a particular aspect of the sustainability organizational culture (e.g., strategy, practice). To fill in the gap in the literature, the present study aims at developing a sustainability organizational culture model. It identifies components of a sustainability organizational culture, develops an Integrated Sustainability Organizational Culture model, and explores the model by adopting the case study approach, mixed data collection methods, and the working analytical framework. As an empirical contribution, findings indicate that, through a widely shared organizational culture, the sustainability organizational vision and values drive emotionally committed organizational members to perform corporate sustainability practices that lead to enhanced Triple Bottom Line outputs, satisfied stakeholders, and brand equity. As a theoretical contribution, the empirically endorsed Integrated Sustainability Organizational Culture model provides directions for further theoretical development. Managerial implications are discussed.
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Kantabutra, Sooksan. "Achieving Corporate Sustainability: Toward a Practical Theory." Sustainability 11, no. 15 (August 1, 2019): 4155. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11154155.
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The present study aims at exploring processual relationships between corporate sustainability predictors and sustainability performance, as informed by the Thai philosophy of Sufficiency Economy, and accordingly proposes a theory of corporate sustainability to fill in the fundamental gap in the literature. Based on a framework derived from the literature, multi-data collection methods and the framework approach to qualitative data analysis are adopted to explore the relationships at a sustainable enterprise in Thailand. Findings reveal six processual relationships leading to improving corporate sustainability performance directly and indirectly. Grounded upon seven established theories, the existing empirical literature and the findings of the present study, a coherent theory of corporate sustainability is developed to inform future theory building and guide future corporate sustainability research. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.
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Hammad, Hadeer, Viola Muster, Noha M. El-Bassiouny, and Martina Schaefer. "Status and sustainability." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 23, no. 4 (September 19, 2019): 537–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-06-2019-0115.
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Purpose Conspicuous consumption and sustainable consumption are commonly understood as being in contradiction with each other. Yet, scholars have recently become increasingly interested in examining positive relationships between these forms of consumption. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the synergies and contradictions between sustainable and luxury consumption and proposing whether and how conspicuous motives can foster a shift towards sustainable consumption in newly industrialized countries in general and Egypt in particular. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a conceptual note, intended as a starting point and acting as an eye-opener regarding the values inherent in both conspicuous and sustainable consumption and the potential influence that conspicuous motivations could have on the latter. Findings The paper discusses the possibilities for and limitations of conspicuous motives to foster sustainable consumption in newly industrialized countries in the Middle East. The adoption of westernized lifestyles, spreading in Middle Eastern countries, can represent a venue for motivating sustainable consumption behaviours as a means of status distinction. On the other hand, the trickle-down effect and the preconditions of visibility and exclusiveness pose risks on promoting sustainable consumption by addressing conspicuous motives. Practical implications The paper suggests that the synergistic interplay between conspicuous and sustainable consumption, as well as barriers and motivations underpinning both constructs, needs to be empirically researched, while factoring in the cultural specifics of the countries under study, as cultural nuances can influence the dynamics of interaction between conspicuous and sustainable behaviours. Originality/value Given the salience of the relationship between luxury and sustainable consumption and the focus of most studies on early-industrialized countries, insights regarding the possible influences of conspicuous motives on sustainable consumption in newly industrialized countries are warranted. With the scarcity of research examining the ambiguous relationship between conspicuous and sustainable consumption in newly industrialized countries, this paper contributes by providing insights about the conditions that can help conspicuous motives promote sustainable consumption in newly industrialized countries.
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Maganda, Carmen, and Olivier Petit. "Environmental and natural resources governance: Rethinking public-private relationships." Regions and Cohesion 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2011): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/reco.2011.010301.
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Talking about environmental and natural resources (ENR) governance today is generally related to the search for holistic elements to achieve sustainability. Political ecology clearly points out and debates the need to see ENR, particularly those related to vital necessities, as global public goods. It sounds like an easy equation: How can we achieve sustainability without sharing access, costs, benefits, and of course governance of ENR needed for all human activities? However, as logical as it seems, development inequalities and unregulated market relationships on the management of these resources are still predominant. Therefore, environmental governance and sustainability is still one of the major contemporary global challenges.
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Sroufe, Robert, and Venugopal Gopalakrishna-Remani. "Management, Social Sustainability, Reputation, and Financial Performance Relationships: An Empirical Examination of U.S. Firms." Organization & Environment 32, no. 3 (February 19, 2018): 331–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026618756611.
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With growing evidence of positive relationships between social sustainability and financial performance, there is a critical need for understanding how innovative organizations integrate sustainability and tie theory to practice. The research in this study uses a sample of Fortune 500 firms simultaneously listed in the Newsweek Green rankings, The Corporate Knights Global 100, and the 100 Best Corporate Citizens lists. The analysis from this purposeful sample of leading firms reveals positive relationships between the management of sustainability practices leading to improved social sustainability performance and firm financial performance constructs. The results of this study advance construct and item development involving sustainability management and social sustainability practices while testing relationships to measures of financial performance. Further advances in the field and opportunities for future research involve testing larger cross-sector samples, the development and measurement of social sustainability practices from secondary sources, longitudinal studies, and the evolving nature of organizational performance measurement.
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Heeren, Alexander John, Ajay S. Singh, Adam Zwickle, Tomas M. Koontz, Kristina M. Slagle, and Anna C. McCreery. "Is sustainability knowledge half the battle?" International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 17, no. 5 (September 5, 2016): 613–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-02-2015-0014.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of sustainability knowledge to pro-environmental behaviour. A common misperception is that unsustainable behaviours are largely driven by a lack of knowledge of the underlying societal costs and the contributing factors leading to environmental degradation. Such a perception assumes if individuals “only knew better” they would engage in more sustainable behaviours. The “knowledge deficit model” has been critiqued for not including social psychological research about how knowledge is incorporated into decision-making and its subsequent effect on human behaviour. The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model has been used extensively to examine intention to engage in a variety of behaviours, therefore this model is applied to examine the effect knowledge has in predicting behaviour. Design/methodology/approach To better understand these relationships, the authors examined the relationships between sustainability behaviours through an online survey of over 500 students at a large university in the USA. Findings Results indicate that knowledge had a significant, albeit weak, bivariate correlation with behaviour (r = 0.113, p < 0.001). However, when controlling for TPB variables (attitudes, norms and perceived behavioural control), knowledge was not a significant predictor of behaviour. Research limitations/implications The authors conclude with several implications to guide university sustainability programmes. Originality/value This study places sustainable knowledge in the context of other social psychological factors which also influence behaviour. The results show that as the students are educated about sustainability, fostering behaviour change will require education not only about how actions affect sustainability but also about social norms, attitudes towards sustainable behaviours and the level of self-efficacy in doing those behaviours.
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Belford, Paul. "Sustainability in community archaeology." AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 4, no. 2 (January 6, 2017): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/ap.v4i2.58.
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This paper considers the rise of community archaeology in England and Wales, its relationships with other branches of archaeology, and its longterm sustainability. Possible meanings of sustainability are discussed from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, before questions of social, intellectual and economic sustainability in community archaeology are considered. It is argued that true sustainability for community archaeology will only be possible if research outcomes and public benefit are considered as being of equal value.
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Chen, Xiao, Xiaojing Sun, Dongwei Yan, and Decheng Wen. "Perceived Sustainability and Customer Engagement in the Online Shopping Environment: The Rational and Emotional Perspectives." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (March 28, 2020): 2674. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12072674.
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As increasing numbers of customers pay attention to product and service sustainability when shopping online, more and more firms in the online market engage in promoting perceived sustainability to establish close customer relationships. Prior studies implied the effects of perceived sustainability on transactional customer relationships, however, the role of perceived sustainability in influencing nontransactional customer relationships has received little attention. Drawing on existing conceptual models, this study aimed at exploring the effects of perceived sustainability on rational and emotional customer engagement (CE) in the online shopping environment. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey in China. Using the partial least squares (PLS) approach-based structural equation modeling (SEM) method, the authors found that perceived sustainability positively affects the two CE orientations through influencing short- and long-term transactional attitudes (satisfaction and commitment). A strong interrelationship between rational and emotional CE was also found. This is the first study presenting empirical evidence of the effects of perceived sustainability on nontransactional customer relationships from the rational and emotional perspectives. It also provides critical implications for online sellers in designing engagement programs.
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Sempere-Ripoll, Francisca, Sofia Estelles-Miguel, Ronald Rojas-Alvarado, and Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver. "Does Technological Innovation Drive Corporate Sustainability? Empirical Evidence for the European Financial Industry in Catching-Up and Central and Eastern Europe Countries." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 13, 2020): 2261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062261.
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In the financial industry, two relationships are well-researched: (i) innovation and financial performance and, (ii) sustainability and financial performance, both focused primarily on Western and advanced countries. The relationship between innovation and sustainability, however, is underresearched. This study’s purpose consists of determining whether there is a relationship between innovation and corporate sustainability in the financial industry. In doing so, this study responds to a critical question: are the most innovative firms also the most sustainability-oriented? We empirically explore sustainability-oriented innovation in the financial industry of 11 catching-up countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for 2012–2014, this study empirically analyzes a large sample of 1574 firms in the financial industry. Our results suggest that innovation is positively linked to corporate sustainability, pointing out that innovation capabilities are positively related to sustainability. Our study proposes a framework for analyzing innovation and sustainability from a capability-perspective.