Barriers to environmentally-conscious manufacturing innovation

Akbar, Kashifa; Jin, Ya‐Qiu; Salam, Shafaq

doi:10.3233/hsm-17251

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“…A recent study explored the ECM innovation challenges encountered by manufacturing enterprises in Pakistan. They found that environmental innovation is hindered due to a lack of organizational resources and willingness to change, corporate traditions, and technological challenges [18]. This is the case when environmentally friendly manufactur-ing technologies and techniques are out of reach for many businesses, mainly small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).…”

Section: Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Product Recovery...mentioning

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Barriers to the Sustainable Implementation of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: A Contextual-Based Interpretive Structural Model

Alqahtani

Makki

2022

Sustainability

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The traditional production system is mainly concerned with economic growth. However, with growing pollution and the rapid depletion of natural resources, there is an urgent need to adopt environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) to prioritize the environment alongside society and business. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the barriers that prevent the sustainable implementation of ECM to overcome them better. This research uses interpretive structural modeling to identify and comprehend the contextual interrelationships between barriers to ECM. The identified barriers are categorized and modeled based on their interdependence and driving powers. The findings show that management’s lack of understanding of ECM is an essential barrier that leads to a communication gap. Both lead to barriers, such as a less qualified workforce, high taxation, poor policy framing and implementation, poor financial support, and lack of technological upgrades. Thereby, this leads to the poor adoption of remanufacturing, higher costs of sustainable products, and in turn, overconsumption of natural resources. Overcoming these barriers will improve the poor acceptance of ECM, the inadequate legislative framework, and the lack of its implementation. The resulting model provides a deeper understanding of the barriers and enables the better design of coping strategies toward a more sustainable implementation of ECM to its fullest potential.

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Section: Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Product Recovery...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers to the Sustainable Implementation of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: A Contextual-Based Interpretive Structural Model

Alqahtani

Makki

2022

Sustainability

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Knowledge sharing mechanisms in virtual communities: A review of the current literature and recommendations for future research

Rajabion

Nazari

Bandarchi

et al. 2019

HSM

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Knowledge has become a key factor to success in social environments and virtual communities. Also, human resources are a critical part of the creation and dissemination of the knowledge-based resources in virtual communities. Comprehensive understanding of virtual community dynamics can aid us to address critical organizational and information systems issues. Furthermore, virtual communities have gained high acceptance for people to learn and share knowledge. However, the detailed review and deep discussion in this filed are very rare. Therefore, this paper reviews and discusses the recently introduced mechanisms in this field as well as providing a deep analysis of their applied domains. This survey will help to a conceptual understanding of nature and the position of KS in virtual communities. Moreover, the drawbacks and benefits of the reviewed mechanisms in three categories such as social factors, motivation factors, and medical factors have been discussed and the main challenges of these mechanisms are highlighted for developing more efficient KS in virtual communities in the future. The obtained results indicated that helps the creativity and the success of the organizations, saving time and cost, reducing medical errors and also optimizing the learning effect. Trust is also the greatest prerequisite for KS.

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Impact of green practices on consumers’ sustainable purchase intentions: Humans’ management adopting green strategies in Pakistan

Akbar

Jin

Waheed

et al. 2021

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BACKGROUND: The rapid expansion in economies has resulted in overconsumption which is alarming for the environment. Patterns of consumption play a key role in the worsening environmental surroundings, causing consumers to seek sustainable features in their buying patterns. Therefore, it is vital to understand the elements that lead to sustainable purchase intentions (SPI). OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the impact of distinct green practices – environment (EnV), perceived environmental responsibility (PreR), environmental advertisement (AvT), and eco-labeling (EcL) – on SPI. The originality of the present study lies in the investigation of distinct practices on SPI which has been ignored in past studies. METHODS: The data were collected from the main cities of Pakistan (n = 300) and analyzed using the partial least square and CFA. RESULTS: The results demonstrate the positive nexus of such practices – EnV, PreR, AvT, and EcL – on SPI. They provide extensive input into the growing literature of psychology in terms of humans’ sustainable consumption behavior with empirical evidence from a developing nation. CONCLUSIONS: This study provided the implications for the marketers along with future research directions for academicians and practitioners.

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Barriers to environmentally-conscious manufacturing innovation

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Barriers to the Sustainable Implementation of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: A Contextual-Based Interpretive Structural Model

Barriers to the Sustainable Implementation of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: A Contextual-Based Interpretive Structural Model

Knowledge sharing mechanisms in virtual communities: A review of the current literature and recommendations for future research

Impact of green practices on consumers’ sustainable purchase intentions: Humans’ management adopting green strategies in Pakistan

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