Relationship between Cleaner Production, Environmental Management, and Sustainable Product on Performance

Abstract

Abstract:The current study attempts to link cleaner production and environmental management to sustainable product innovation and performance. Extant research only focused on financial performance while this study applied balanced scorecard (BSC) model for this purpose. As shown in the proposed framework of this study, cleaner production and environmental management can affect sustainable product innovation and thereby performance (financial, customer satisfaction, learning and growth, and internal process). It should be mentioned that the focal scope of this study is Iran.

Impact of Institutional Pressure on Cleaner Production and Sustainable Firm Performance

“…Having identified organizations they deem successful, companies might want to mimic their performance in terms of their environmental focus but essentially be powerless unless the supply chain changes due to institutional or coercive pressures. Furthermore, even though mimetics can impact an organization's environmental performance, the nature of this influence is mediated by the company's internal environmental practices [128]. The organizational culture and the processes in place regarding environmental management determine whether the imitation of respectable and successful entities will result in the desired environmental performance [118].…”