Commercialization of Green Technologies: an Exploratory Literature Review

Abstract

Abstract. Technology and innovation are viewed as triggers in the move towards greener economy. Commercialisation of green technologies does not only provide the key drivers for economic growth but are also essential for the world to be sustainable. Th e central idea of this paper is to address the query of what is known about green technological outputs. In particular, we look at the existing body of literature related to commercialization of green technologies, identifying the most active scholars, journals and relevant publications. Th e paper provides some answers to the questions of top journals with the papers related to commercialization of green technology, a number of articles with the highest number of citations, or the list of countries with the most of studies in green technologies. Th e paper has both academic and policy-making value . From the academic perspective the study identifi es the scholars who have contributed most to the research on commercialisation of green technologies. For policy-makers, this paper is a report on the existing practices and positive experience in responsible leadership. Additionally for practitioners, the study shows which subject areas create profi table growth in compliance with environmental sustainability and good corporate citizenship.

Scoping research on sustainability performance from manufacturing industry sector

“…If African countries would like to avoid these consequences while pursuing the next global manufacturing hub to maintain a manufacturing development, a cleaner path must be outlined. This implies that from the starting point of manufacturing development, the discussion on continent should include, sustainable operations in manufacturing industry (Chambers, 1992;Mukhtarova et al, 2016). We call research on sustainable operations management to fill this gap, taking this the advantage of this opportunity.…”

Sustainable Environmental Management System Integration and Business Performance: A Balance Assessment Approach Using Fuzzy Logic

“…The researches in the literature consider a dichotomic variable certification itself, but do not analyse the degree of ISO 14001 EMS internalization (integration) [16]. Scholars interested in environmental standards must focus on standards integration, and not only on certification [40], mainly due to the fact that it is a complex scientific approach associated with different activity fields [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. Hence, this research represents an original attempt to "unpack" this organizational management system, considered by Feng and Wang [49] to be a "black box", in order for organizations to really profit from EMSs and not consider it a "necessary burden".…”

Green economy: waste management and recycling methods

“…The main task is to develop the existing landfills, prolong their life and reduce their harmful impact on the environment. Only in big and largest cities construction of waste processing plants with pre-sorting of MSW is efficient [19,21,22,23]. The main difficulty on the way to recycling is the absence in many countries of a system of separate waste collection, which is an inevitable condition for their deep processing.…”