Configurational Paths to Social Performance in SMEs: The Interplay of Innovation, Sustainability, Resources and Achievement Motivation

Kraus, Sascha; Burtscher, Janina; Niemand, Thomas; Roig‐Tierno, Norat; Syrjä, Pasi

doi:10.3390/su9101828

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“…The aim of this research is to find causal patterns that explain the consumers' attitude toward EVs. Consequently, the fsQCA approach, which is able to find joint conditions that can explain a selected outcome, is used [73].…”

Section: Data Analysis Methodsmentioning

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Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainable mobility has received increasing attention in recent years. The transport sector contributes to almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. The development of electric vehicles (EVs) may help the shift toward sustainable mobility, reducing oil vulnerability and greenhouse gas emissions in road transport. Poor penetration of EVs might be explained, moreover, by consumer resistance to EVs. The aim of our paper is to determine consumers' attitude and preferences for EVs, investigating which conditions influence consumer decision-making to purchase an EV. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 421 highly-educated individuals, involving students and faculty members, we identify several configurations of conditions of the variables which lead to the outcomes, supporting their equifinality and asymmetric nature. Our findings indicate attitudes related to EVs differ across age and groups. Our paper offers public decision makers new useful insights for understanding the importance of specific determinants, and for designing effective strategies for EVs' development worldwide.system, due to their high efficiency throughout the fuel supply chain and vehicle fuel consumption [7,8]. A number of positive impacts can be expected from the development of EVs. They are an alternative approach to contribute to a more sustainable mobility, reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions [9]. EVs are the best way to tap into renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power [10], thus indicating that the deployment of EVs and renewable energy sources should take place concomitantly [11]. Moreover, EVs have the potential to make major contributions to the electric supply system, as storage or generation resources, or both [12]. Specifically, EVs can absorb excess energy production (for instance from wind power) that would be wasted or curtailed [13].However, the emerging EV "industry" still faces technological challenges in terms of vehicle and infrastructure design, and EVs are expensive to obtain. There are unresolved issues about the viability of the current generation of EVs, such as rapid charging, range, lack of infrastructure, and load of the grid. Also, off peak-load impacts may arise from the integration of EVs with electricity grids [14].Despite the fact that the Paris Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change and Call to Action has forecast a threshold of 100 million EVs by 2030 [15], it has to be recognized that large scale EV deployment is still not a reality. There were 2 million EVs in circulation worldwide in 2016, i.e., 1.4% of the total passenger car market.Transitions to green technologies such as EVs often require significant shifts not only in technology, but in political regulations, tariffs and pricing regimes, and the behavior of users and adopters [16]. Consumer resistance to EVs is an obstacle to the adoption of this technology. Potential EV purchasers identify the cost premium, range limitation and recharging time of EVs as disadvantages compared to conventiona...

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Section: Data Analysis Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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“…Finally, we also propose to provide more joint analyses of entrepreneurs and investors concerning environmental, social, and sustainable business, e.g., through the use of configuration analyses (see e.g., [137]). It is important to analyse and compare their respective expectations from each other, joint goals, and the drivers of perceived risk, on the way to developing a more sustainable financial system.…”

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

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Abstract:With the global financial system having undergone vast changes since the financial crisis of 2007, scientific research concerning the investor's point of view on sustainable investments has drastically increased. However, there remains a lack of research focused on the entrepreneur's angle regarding sustainable oriented investments. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of sustainable financial markets by bringing together entrepreneurial and financial research. This paper provides a structured literature review, based on which the authors identify three relevant levels that they believe have an effect on the successful implementation of managerial sustainable practices; these are the individual, the firm, and the contextual levels. The results show that on the individual level sustainable entrepreneurs tend to derive their will to act more sustainably from their personal values or traits. On the organizational level, though, it can be concluded that an small and medium sized enterprise's internal culture and the reconfiguration of resources are critical determinants for adopting a sustainable entrepreneurial orientation. Finally, on the contextual level, researchers have focused on a better understanding of how entrepreneurs can help society and the environment through sustainable entrepreneurship, and how they can act as role models or change agents in light of the fact that the choice of investing or financing based on sustainability is still in its infancy. By providing an overview on facilitating factors for responsible managerial practices on the entrepreneur's side, this research contributes to a better understanding for both theory and practice on how sustainable practices can be implemented and facilitated.

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“…(b) On the other hand, a qualitative comparative analysis of fuzzy sets (fsQCA) was carried out because of their ability to adequately handle uncertainty and because they are suitable for studying social phenomena using small samples (Ragin, 2000(Ragin, , 2008. In addition, from the literature review we found an increasing number of papers using this data analysis technique (Fiss, 2007;Kraus et al, 2017;Huarng et al, 2020). This analysis enables us to: (1) overcome the problems associated with the minimum size of the sample (Rihoux and Ragin, 2004;Rihoux, 2006), (2) identify the effect of the combinations -configurations-of necessary and sufficient explanatory characteristics which other approaches are not able to adequately identify (Schneider and Wagemann, 2012), (3) offer a qualitative model based on set theory and logic (Thygeson et al, 2012), which complements quantitative techniques by modeling complex asymmetric relationships (Woodside, 2013) and, (4) allows to solve different types of problems (Huarng et al, 2020) as it allows to explain a result from the necessary or sufficient conditions (Ragin, 2000;Huarng et al, 2020).…”

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Servant Leadership, Innovative Capacity and Performance in Third Sector Entities

Perlines

Araya-Castillo

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This paper analyses the relationship between servant leadership, innovative capacity and performance in Third Sector entities and proposes a mediation model. This research is based on a twofold theoretical approach: the servant leadership approach and the resource-based approach. The data have been obtained through a survey sent to territorial and functional managers of Third Sector entities. The fieldwork ran from June to September 2019. At the end of the entire process, 85 valid questionnaires were obtained. For the analysis of the results, a double methodology has been used: (1) a method of second order structural equations (PLS-SEM) and, (2) qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The main contributions of this work are: 1) a double theoretical approach has been applied in this work, which has allowed to adequately define the relationships between servant leadership, innovation capacity and performance in Third Sector entities; (2) the application of a double data analysis methodology has allowed us to obtain robust and reliable results; (3) the measures of the three composites used (servant leadership, innovative capacity and performance) have adequate reliability and validity values; (4) the servant leadership positively influences the performance of Third Sector entities being able to explain the 35.6% of the variation of the performance of these entities and besides, it is a necessary condition for this performance to take place, (5) the average innovative capacity in the influence of the servant leadership in the performance of the entities of the Third Sector, being a necessary condition. Mediation is total, eliminating the direct effect of servant leadership on the performance of third Sector entities and increasing the capacity to explain the variation in the performance of Third Sector entities up to 44.7%.

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Configurational Paths to Social Performance in SMEs: The Interplay of Innovation, Sustainability, Resources and Achievement Motivation

Cited by 72 publications

References 106 publications

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

Servant Leadership, Innovative Capacity and Performance in Third Sector Entities

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