Exploring the characteristics of sustainable business practice in small and medium-sized enterprises: Experiences from the Australian manufacturing industry

Caldera, Savindi; Desha, Cheryl; Dawes, Les

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.265

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“…However, the entrepreneurs should adopt modern environmental policy, sustainable marketing, green network framework and certified environmental management system in order to consider their enterprise sustainable. Caldera et al [82] also include risk profiling and ongoing education and awareness in the sustainable business characteristics that enable the enterprises to identify performance improvement opportunities for sustainability transformation. Hao et al [83] highlight that high-level managerial skills are essential for the entrepreneurs to developing path and practices towards sustainable entrepreneurship internally and also high-level technical skills are essential to integrating new emerging technologies and sustainable characteristics externally.…”

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Benchmarking Internet Promotion of Renewable Energy Enterprises: Is Sustainability Present?

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2018

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Sustainability constitutes a broad discipline that focuses on the social, economic and environmental impact of human activities. Many policies and strategies have been developed for the pursuit of environmental sustainability and the guidance to a green society. Many enterprises have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance through corporate sustainability and environmental management. Environmental management contributes to significant improvements to environmental performance of the enterprises. This paper aims to evaluate the Renewable Energy Enterprises performance in the Internet in Thessaloniki Prefecture regarding the characteristics of sustainability using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis. TOPSIS method was used to provide a ranking of the Renewable Energy Enterprises according to their sustainability and finally conclude to a benchmark. According to the results of the research, the Renewable Energy Enterprises achieve a good level of sustainability but not the optimum. However, the entrepreneurs should adopt modern environmental policy, sustainable marketing, green network framework and certified environmental management system in order to consider their enterprise sustainable.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Benchmarking Internet Promotion of Renewable Energy Enterprises: Is Sustainability Present?

Andreopoulou

Koliouska

2018

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“…Furthermore in Korea, Shin et al [5] explores SME ability in reading the market situation and its influence on operational performance and companies by using Structural Equation Modeling. Besides, Kato and Charoenrat [6] conducted a research in Thailand, Caldera et al [7] in Australia, Mamman et al [8] in Africa.…”

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Can public-private partnership policy reduce poverty and grow sustainable economies in indonesia? (case study approach)

2018

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The openness of the investment in Indonesia has become one of the main focuses in supporting the Nawa Cita Program by Jokowi and Jusuf Kalla. Unfortunately, the increase in investment is not balanced with the number of poor urban and rural population in Indonesia. Therefore, social inequality in Indonesia still tends to be quite large. One form of investment is the development of supermarkets. The goal of this study is to analyze the implementation of partnership policies between supermarkets and SME with a case study approach of supermarket chains with SME in Sidoarjo Town, East Java Province. This study uses a qualitative approach, through in-depth interviews on SME who partner with supermarkets in Sidoarjo. The results showed that the government-led partnership policy to improve the economy of society and overcome the gap on the growth of supermarkets did not run optimally. Thus, the Government's goal to create a mutually beneficial business partnership between supermarkets and SME can not be achieved, so that there needs to be an evaluation on the partnership policy made by the Government further so that the partnership policy can be successful.

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“…Even though SMEs have small impacts individually, as a cluster they can have a significant cumulative impact [11] on the environment. SMEs can implement sustainable practice through substituting virgin raw materials in products with post-consumer materials, recycling and keeping resources the life cycle for a longer period of time [12]. SMEs improved sustainable business practice creates opportunities to contribute to the sustainable development goals incrementally.…”

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“…Over the years, it has been proven that lean and green practices are positively correlated [28,29], mutually beneficial [27,30], can be implemented sequentially or simultaneously [31] and have synergistic impact on operational and environmental performance [32]. Adopting a business strategy, such as lean and green thinking, can allow businesses to achieve bottom line savings in the production process, improve efficiency and form a platform to achieve economic sustainability [24,27,[33][34][35]. Although a variety of lean tools have demonstrated positive impacts on improving efficiency and effectiveness, they have not necessarily captured environmentalor indeed socialimpacts of implementation [36,37].…”

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Transforming manufacturing to be ‘good for planet and people’, through enabling lean and green thinking in small and medium-sized enterprises

2019

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Background: The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals remind us of the urgent need for every business to operate in ways that are good for planet and people. Manufacturing is a critical sector to address, where industry is compelled to rethink the acts of sourcing, producing, consuming and handling goods and their subsequent 'waste' components. Over the last decade in particular, lean and green thinking has emerged as a desirable strategy to improve efficiency and environmental outcomes towards sustainable business practices that meet circular economy objectives. However, moving beyond ad hoc and champion-based take-up by organisations with deep pockets, there is generally a lack of momentum towards mainstreaming such lean and green focused operations in the many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationally. This research used case study analysis within the manufacturing sector in Queensland, Australia, to investigate how SMEs could readily engage in lean and green processes to achieve sustainable business practice with regard to the '3Ps' of the triple bottom line (i.e. Planet, Profit and People). 'Natural resource-based view theory' and 'Institutional theory' were used to develop a conceptual framework to explain the findings. Results: The paper describes the lean and green practices observed in the SMEs, drivers for implementation, and the perceived benefits within the realm of sustainable business practice. Building on case study findings, the authors provide the first 3P Model for lean and green strategy, presenting four steps that SMEs can follow, including a 3P matrix of tools to selectively engage with lean and green actions towards sustainable business practice. This model guides SMEs to use the best tools and processes given their circumstances and aspirations. Conclusions: The model has the immediate benefit of focusing SME time and resources towards circular economy enquiry, reducing uncertainty and enabling forward-planning. The findings provide practical guidelines to enable SMEs to achieve sustainable business practice while appreciating the 'triple bottom line' approach. The findings also have immediate policy and governance implications within the public and private sector, providing guidance on integrating lean and green thinking to advance from doing 'business as usual'.

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Exploring the characteristics of sustainable business practice in small and medium-sized enterprises: Experiences from the Australian manufacturing industry

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

Benchmarking Internet Promotion of Renewable Energy Enterprises: Is Sustainability Present?

Benchmarking Internet Promotion of Renewable Energy Enterprises: Is Sustainability Present?

Can public-private partnership policy reduce poverty and grow sustainable economies in indonesia? (case study approach)

Transforming manufacturing to be ‘good for planet and people’, through enabling lean and green thinking in small and medium-sized enterprises

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