Author: Huaqing Wang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 25
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Business managers have been investing more and more on green product innovation to deal with the increasing concerns regarding the potential negative environmental impacts from various business activities. Green product innovation has been extensively studies in the literature theoretically and empirically. Given limited empirical research exists in exploring underlying mechanisms and related drivers that contribute green product innovation. This study investigates the critical role of internal integration in improving green production innovation and identify the antecedents of internal integration. Based on organizational learning perspective, this study proposes a conceptual framework that specifies the relationship regarding the antecedents of internal integration and its impact on green product innovation. Using survey data from 231 companies in China, this study empirically tests the relationships specified in the conceptual framework. Managerial implications can be drawn from this study on the ways to increase green production innovation indirectly through learning orientation, open mindedness, vision sharing.
Author: Huaqing Wang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 21
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Developing green products and improving green production processes are important in increasing environmental performance and sustainability. The sophisticated processes involved in green innovations is a learning curve and a complex journey that many companies engaged in green operations must navigate. In this study we establish a mediating framework, arguing that a green company's internal and external knowledge process integration enhance its environmental performance through green innovations. Drawing on the theories of organizational learning and dynamic capabilities, our empirical analysis of 231 firms based in China suggests that the impact a firm's knowledge process integration on environmental performance is mediated through its green product innovation and green process innovation. This study contributes to the much-needed efforts in finding ways to improve green innovations and financial performance, and provides helpful managerial implications to practitioners on how to successfully manage resources to improve green innovations and achieve expected benefits.
Author: Mohan Menon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 21
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Green innovations and productions are critical to improving environmental performance and sustainability. The complex process involved in green innovations has a steep learning curve, but navigation has become critical for companies engaged in green operations. Knowledge plays a critical role the process of innovation. In this study, we propose a framework to investigate the effect of integration of internal and external knowledge processes in improving green innovation and financial performance in the end. Based on the theory of organizational learning and dynamic capabilities, our empirical analysis of 231 Chinese companies shows that the impact of the company's knowledge process integration on environmental performance is achieved through its green product innovation and process innovation. This research makes a huge effort to find ways to improve green innovation and financial performance. The results provide practitioners with useful management implications on how to successfully manage resources to improve green innovation and achieve the expected benefits.
Author: Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9783319153469 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 2500
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The second edition of this exhaustive work (ECIIE) comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics relating to the process of creativity and innovation, from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g., economics, management, psychology, anthropology, policy, technology, education, the arts) and modes (individual, organization, industry, nation, region). This edition includes some 400 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. Entries feature description of key concepts and definition of terms, full-color illustrations, case examples, future directions for research and application, synonyms and cross-references and bibliographic references.
Author: Wim Vanhaverbeke Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108165796 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 253
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The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with an increasing number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. With the majority of publications focusing on large firms, open innovation in SMEs has received scant attention from both scholars and practitioners. This book seeks to correct this imbalance by providing an in-depth study for both business managers and graduate-level students. Using rich, in-depth case studies from successful companies, it examines different approaches to managing OI in order to develop practical guidelines for implementation. It also highlights important differences between OI strategies in SMEs and large companies. Its findings will be of use to those studying or working in innovation management, open innovation, small business management and entrepreneurship.
Author: Khaldoon Albitar Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2832535607 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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The United Nations action plan for sustainable development, named “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” represents an international governance arrangement in response to the recent environmental challenges and social inequalities. Importantly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework sets a purpose to protect human rights, end poverty, reduce inequality, protect the planet and its natural resources, and enhance sustainable economic growth. Recently, due to the deterioration in global environmental conditions, increasing stakeholder demands, and stricter regulations and law all over the world, firms have realized the importance of integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic orientations in order to enhance their environmental, social performances and keep sustainable development.
Author: Kejin Qu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Green product innovation has been used as a strategic tool to increase sustainability in response to the rising concerns regarding the adverse effect of business activities on the environment. Finding ways to increase green product innovations is an urgent issue faced by many managers. This study proposes a conceptual framework to study a company's green product innovation by investigating the role of green market orientation and identify the three components in improving it. Moreover, environmental dynamism in market and technology is investigated regarding the moderation effect in shaping the relationship between green market orientation and green product innovation. The conceptual framework is tested empirically by using the data collected from 231 companies in China. This study makes contributions to the literature in finding ways to improve green product innovation by building proper organizational culture, green market orientation under certain environmental dynamism. This finding is also useful for real-world practitioners in finding practical ways to increase green product innovation to achieve competitive advantage.
Author: Ken Peattie Publisher: FT Prenticehall ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 330
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This text provides a study of how environmental concerns affect the principles and practice of marketing and how the marketing function is affected by environmental concerns. It examines how aspects of marketing can be applied to developing and implementing greener strategies.
Author: Haiyan Song Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136640320 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 234
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Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers as a value-added chain of different service components and identifying ways to effectively manage the interrelated tourism business operations will enable tourism firms to better meet customer needs and accomplish business goals thus maintaining competitive advantage over their equally efficient rivals. This significant and timely volume is the first to apply supply chain management theories and practices in the context of tourism. By doing so the book offers insight into the relationships between tourism enterprises, how coordination across organizations can be effectively achieved and how business performance can be improved. It provides comprehensive and systematic coverage of modern supply chain management concepts and methodologies applied to the tourism and hospitality industries. The text covers key issues and principles including: marketing and product development, demand forecasting, supplier selection and management, distribution channels, capacity management, customer relationship management, tourism supply chain competition and coordination, and e-tourism. The book combines essential theory and comparative international examples based on primary research to show challenges and opportunities of effective tourism supply chain management. This text is essential for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Tourism Management, Tourism Planning and Tourism Economics.
Author: Hassan Qudrat-Ullah Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319943227 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 354
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This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of sustainable supply chains has become a complex and dynamic task. Multiple and conflicting objectives of stakeholders including suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and retailers add to the complexity of decisions that modern day managers of supply chains face. With the unprecedented technological developments and innovations at hand, sustainability can be maximized for all the activities of a supply chain including: service concept and product design, material sourcing and procurement, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product, and end-of-life management of the product. Consequently, the sustainable supply chains' problems require a systematic and integrated approach. Modeling and simulation, in general, as well as system dynamics and agent-based modeling, in particular, have the capabilities to deal with the complexity of sustainable supply chain related problems. This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the field.
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Author: Khaldoon Albitar
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Author: Hassan Qudrat-Ullah