Eco-efficiency maturity model: a practical assessment tool for managers

Güngör, Bengü; Felekoglu, Burcu; Taşan, A. Serdar

doi:10.1007/s10668-022-02257-y

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“…There is a name known as eco-efficiency, which is the capacity that organizations have to provide goods and business processes that meet customer needs but generate a small amount of environmental impact (Güngör et al, 2023;Hongyun et al, 2023). Furthermore, it highlights the alignment of environmental appraisal to the planning of production, design, and supply to balance sustainable economic development and environmental protection.…”

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Factors Affecting on Environmental Strategy in SMEs manufacturing Firms of a developing country: Mediating role of Green Employee Behavior

Junejo,

Saraih,

Perez

et al. 2024

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Background Sustainability in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which engage heavily in manufacturing provides them with an essential platform for implementing environmental strategy, which is aimed at reducing environmental damage and promoting environmental protection. This study aims to examine the impact of the reduction in resource use, the greening of processes and products on environmental strategy and the mediating role of green employee behaviour. Methods Primary data gathered with the help of questionnaires from employees of SMEs manufacturing in developing countries, Pakistan. The research gathered data from 211 participants by applying a pre-tested instrumental questionnaire and structural equation modelling (SEM) for data analysis. Results The results confirmed all direct effects, including a reduction in resource use, the greening of processes and products and green employee behaviour of environmental strategies in small and medium manufacturing firms. Also, confirmed partial mediation effect of green employee behavior between greening of processes and products and environmental strategy. Conclusion The current study clearly showed the need for programs and infrastructures that support resource reduction and greening businesses in SMEs. Companies’ implementation of green processes and technologies allows SMEs to take an environmentally responsible stand and become part of the movement toward sustainability. The research stresses the importance of green employee conduct as a mediator, the central point being the individual employee being engaged and aware of the subject and willing to participate in environmentally friendly practices. Therefore, small and medium enterprises should enlighten their staff to practice green behaviour, give them what they need and empower them to be change drivers that will trigger sustainability throughout the organisations.

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Section: Greening Of Processes and Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Affecting on Environmental Strategy in SMEs manufacturing Firms of a developing country: Mediating role of Green Employee Behavior

Junejo,

Saraih,

Perez

et al. 2024

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“…Eco-efficiency was introduced as an operational concept to assess sustainability in 1990 (Schaltegger, 1996), and it was revised by the World Trade Council for Sustainable Development to encourage producers to compete and be more environmentally friendly in 1992 and 2000 (Schmidheiny, 1992;WBCSD, 2000). In fact, by estimating EEE, it is determined to what extent environmental damage can be reduced and, by minimizing damage to the environment, sustainable development can be improved in economic enterprises (Pang et al, 2016;Güngör et al, 2022).…”

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Material balance principle to estimate eco-efficiency of saffron-producers aiming reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in Iran

Mardani Najafabadi,

Rastegaripour,

Yavari

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Introduction: During the last decades, environmental pollution has been considered one of the challenges of the agricultural sector, which has affected the relationship between the ecological and economic performance of agricultural products.Methods: In this study, the DEA-MBP approach based on the SBM model has been used to investigate the eco-efficiency of saffron farms in Iran. The main purpose of this approach is to decrease GHG emissions by mitigating the use of highly polluting production inputs.Results: The results showed that the average eco-efficiency is estimated at 74% and is 12% lower than technical efficiency without considering environmental issues. Therefore, saffron producers are 26% far from full efficiency, and they must change their consumption of inputs and production of inputs according to environmental issues in order to achieve it. Excessive use of diesel fuel and fungicides is cause of GHG emissions in these farms.Discussion: The use of sustainable and ecological cultivation methods in farms in order to reduce the consumption of chemical fertilizers and fungicides should be considered. Replacing old machinery and repairing them can also considerably reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions.

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Methodological Transition Towards Sustainability: A Guidance for Heterogeneous Industry

Quisbert-Trujillo,

Ben-Rejeb

2023

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Eco-efficiency maturity model: a practical assessment tool for managers

Cited by 6 publications

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Factors Affecting on Environmental Strategy in SMEs manufacturing Firms of a developing country: Mediating role of Green Employee Behavior

Factors Affecting on Environmental Strategy in SMEs manufacturing Firms of a developing country: Mediating role of Green Employee Behavior

Material balance principle to estimate eco-efficiency of saffron-producers aiming reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in Iran

Methodological Transition Towards Sustainability: A Guidance for Heterogeneous Industry

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