Social Sustainability Dilemma: Escape or Communicate? Managing Social Risks Upstream of the Bioenergy Supply Chain

Fedorova, Elena; Aaltonen, Kirsi; Pongrácz, Eva

doi:10.3390/resources9010007

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“…Reference [34] surveys the promotion of entrepreneurial activities to strengthen the national competitiveness of the bioenergy industry, arguing that small and medium scale entrepreneurs accelerate the evaluation of business opportunities offered by cleaner technologies, such as bioenergy solutions. Many studies investigate the role of businesses and enterprises in developing the bioenergy industry-such as [35][36][37].…”

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Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Alsaleh¹,

Abdulwakil²,

Abdul-Rahim³

2021

Sustainability

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The Treaty of European Union (EU) sets out the EU vision for sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. This led us to ask whether or not social business development stimulates the development of the bioenergy sector in the EU28 countries. Given the increasing rates of energy insecurity, environmental pollution, poverty, and unemployment, countries are switching to alternative energy sources that might promote social business development, climate change, and environmental quality. In this scenario, the bioenergy industry has received the attention of scholars and policymakers alike. The role social business development can play in the growth of the bioenergy industry remains uncertain, therefore, further investigation is necessary. This study, therefore, explores the relationships between the bioenergy industry and social business development indicators related to zero emissions, zero poverty, and zero unemployment for EU28 region countries from 1990 to 2018. Empirical evidence is based on the use of a new economic model, dynamic panel co-integration simulations (Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square, Dynamic Ordinary Least Square, and Pooled Ordinary Least Square). The results reveal a negative relationship between EU28′s bioenergy industry growth and carbon dioxide emissions, vulnerable employment, and unemployment rate, suggesting that bioenergy industry growth helps reduce pollution and unemployment. Likewise, bioenergy industry growth increases food supply, economic growth, and female employment and might be the best alternative to fossil fuels. Necessary policy related to bioenergy industry growth can be formulated, especially in achieving the sustainable development goals for social businesses.

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Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Alsaleh¹,

Abdulwakil²,

Abdul-Rahim³

2021

Sustainability

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“…In the case of the environmental dimension, based on the risk guiding principle, the requirements for having a shared ecosystem should be well satisfied. On the other hand, based on the social dimension, the responsibility toward workers, staff, business collaborators, customers, the government and the general public needs to be taken into action (Fedorova et al ., 2020). The financial dimension considers the monetary risks induced by the financial activities, the companies, and individuals' dishonest behaviors and endeavors to provide sustained economic development (Jeucken, 2004).…”

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Sustainable supply chains under risk in the manufacturing firms: an extended double normalization-based multiple aggregation approach under an intuitionistic fuzzy environment

Wang¹,

Rani²

2021

JEIM

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PurposeIn recent years, a number of researchers have attempted to make an integration of sustainability with supply chain risk management. These studies have led to valued insights into this issue, though there is still a lack of knowledge about the mechanisms by which sustainability-related issues are materialized as risks in the supply chain management.Design/methodology/approachThe paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework to evaluate the sustainability risk in the supply chain management mechanism. To do so, a novel approach using the double normalization-based multiple aggregation (DNMA) approach under the intuitionistic fuzzy (IF) environment is extended to identify, rank and evaluate the sustainability risk factors in supply chain management.FindingsTo provide comprehensive sustainability risk factors, this study has conducted a survey using interview and literature review. In this regard, this study identified 36 sustainability risk factors in supply chain management of the manufacturing firms in five different groups of risk, including sustainable operational risk factors, economic risk factors, environmental risk factors, social risk factors, and sustainable distribution and recycling risk factors. The results of this paper found that the poor planning and scheduling was the important sustainability risk in supply chain management of the manufacturing firms, followed by the environmental accidents, production capacity risk, product design risk and exploitative hiring policies. In addition, the results of the study found that the extended approach was effective and efficient in evaluating the sustainability risk factors in supply chain management of the manufacturing firms.Originality/valueThree aggregation methods based on the normalization techniques are discussed. A DNMA method is proposed under intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). To propose a broad procedure for identifying and classifying sustainability risk factors (ESFs) in supply chain management. To rank the sustainability risk factor, the authors utilize a procedure for evaluating the significance degree of the sustainability risk factor in supply chain management.

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Social Sustainability Dilemma: Escape or Communicate? Managing Social Risks Upstream of the Bioenergy Supply Chain

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Does Social Businesses Development Affect Bioenergy Industry Growth under the Pathway of Sustainable Development?

Sustainable supply chains under risk in the manufacturing firms: an extended double normalization-based multiple aggregation approach under an intuitionistic fuzzy environment

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