Applying a network level in environmental impact assessments

Öberg, Christina; Huge‐Brodin, Maria; Björklund, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.05.026

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“…The shippers' customers are only indirectly related to the LSPs, but their influence on the degreening in the network is evident. This supports taking a network perspective when studying business relationships (Håkansson and Snehota, 1995), and further highlights the importance of taking a wider perspective than single companies or relationships in the analysis of environmental or sustainability contexts as identified by several researchers (Björklund et al, 2012;Johnsen et al, 2017;Öberg et al, 2012).…”

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De-greening of logistics? – Why environmental practices flourish and fade in provider-shipper relationships and networks

Sallnäs

Huge‐Brodin

2018

Industrial Marketing Management

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In the challenge of making transports and logistics greener, logistics service providers (LSPs) play a central role as the operators of freight transport. Their customers, the shippers, also play an important role in environmental development. Research has identified discrepancies between LSPs and shippers in their environmental practices. This paper takes a relational approach addressing these discrepancies, and the purpose is to develop the understanding of why environmental practices can both flourish and fade in provider-shipper relationships and networks. Paradoxes provide a theoretical lens, while an in-depth case study of two networks provides the empirical basis for the paper. The networks include relationships between LSPs and shippers. Findings show that paradoxes help to raise contextual awareness in the greening of these relationships. Paradoxes in many instances cause environmental practices to fade. One example is when an LSP's environmental ambition gives opportunities for environmental practices, but is limited by the financial goals of the shippers. Findings also indicate that if there are possibilities to relax the paradoxes, environmental practices may instead flourish in the relationships. One example of such a relaxation is environmental competence sustained and cultivated by the LSPs, since such competence can increase the power position of the LSP.

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De-greening of logistics? – Why environmental practices flourish and fade in provider-shipper relationships and networks

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Huge‐Brodin

2018

Industrial Marketing Management

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“…An ongoing trend within sustainability logistics is to widen the scope from a traditional company internal focus to include upstream and/or downstream actors (see e.g., [51][52][53]). In line with this, the scope in measuring has also broaden [54,55]. Isaksson et al [21] put forward the lack of knowledge regarding the integration beyond organizational boundaries in the performance management in general as well as within sustainable supply chain management.…”

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Roles and Perspectives When Estimating Energy and Environmental Potentials of Urban Consolidation

Björklund

Simm

2019

Energies

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Urban consolidation centers (UCCs) are presumed to provide more efficient goods distribution in cities and lead to decreased environmental impact and energy usage. There is, however, limited knowledge as to the actual performance of UCCs, and what roles and perspectives the involved actors have in the performance measurement. The overall aim of this paper is to investigate the roles and perspectives of involved actors when estimating and evaluating the performance of UCCs. The article is based on a study of one case that evaluates the performance of a UCC involving several actors. Interviews were triangulated with documents from the case. The results showed that actors have different roles in performance measurements and even if they share a mutual interest in conducting the measurements, they did not share opinions regarding factors such as system limits or performance indicators. The study provides a deeper understanding of the importance of inter-organizational interaction when conducting performance measurements. The study provides additional insights into the roles of the actors and their perspectives in logistics performance measurement that targets energy usage and environmental impact. These aspects are seldom addressed in less complex estimations or mathematical modelling estimations.

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“…Despite recognition that environmental and social outcomes play a critical role not only in advancing competitiveness but also in sustaining societal well-being and quality of life, they are rarely included in managerial evaluations and calculations of value, at least in a meaningful way (cf. Öberg, Huge-Brodin & Björklund, 2012; Polonsky, 2011). To address this issue, this article makes two contributions.…”

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Towards a Broader Value Discourse: Understanding Sustainable and Public Value Potential

Keränen

2017

Journal of Creating Value

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The current value discourse tends to be characterized by economic benefits and costs. This may resonate with business actors, but customers and society are increasingly interested in environmental, social and public value as well. This article discusses why and how practitioners and scholars should take sustainable and public value potential into account, and move towards a broader value discourse that would resonate with both business and society.

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Applying a network level in environmental impact assessments

Cited by 39 publications

References 57 publications

De-greening of logistics? – Why environmental practices flourish and fade in provider-shipper relationships and networks

De-greening of logistics? – Why environmental practices flourish and fade in provider-shipper relationships and networks

Roles and Perspectives When Estimating Energy and Environmental Potentials of Urban Consolidation

Towards a Broader Value Discourse: Understanding Sustainable and Public Value Potential

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