Sociotechnical regimes, technological innovation and corporate sustainability: from principles to action

Almeida, Maria Fatima Ludovico de; Melo, Maria Angela Campelo de

doi:10.1080/09537325.2016.1215419

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“…Target 9.4 refers to upgrades to infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes [46]. The life-cycle of products should be taken into consideration right from the design stage, with the allocation of responsibilities and deadlines for agents.…”

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A Systemic and Contextual Framework to Define a Country’s 2030 Agenda from a Foresight Perspective

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A fundamental issue in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the national level refers to the systemic analysis of interactions of global targets, considering the context-specific understanding of these interactions within a long-term vision. Another critical issue is how to apply and combine different approaches and tools to provide a consistent analysis for evidence-based decision-making on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global targets. Consistent with both concerns, a systemic and contextual framework to prioritize SDG targets for a country’s 2030 Agenda is proposed, by integrating fuzzy multicriteria decision-making methods, prospective structural analysis, and network theory tools. The applicability of the proposed framework could be demonstrated through a socio-technical experiment carried out during 2018 for the definition of the 2030 Agenda in Brazil. The experiment is especially designed to bring methodological insights to this decision-making process, and empirical results highlight the targets that will drive the Brazilian 2030 Agenda. Although the empirical results presented in this paper are exclusive to Brazil, we believe that the proposed framework can be replicated in other countries, especially those that are going to prioritize the global targets to be included in their respective Agendas.

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“…For this purpose, organizations use different methods and tactics to gain high performance [1]. However, recent studies have claimed that environmental and economic performance (hereby referred to as sustainability practices) are necessary for getting superior profitability [2,3]. In other words, a firm can gain high profit by performing and encouraging sustainability practices [4].…”

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“…However, due to the diverse environmental problems since the 1990s, tensions were inevitably triggered within the firms, encouraging them to formulate internal processes; innovation, technology and non-technology drivers. Especially adequate governance, planning and organizational processes should be integrated within the organization to move in line with environment changes [2]. We suppose that neither MI nor TI on its own can spur sustainability and performance, but both types of innovation are complementary.…”

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The Influence of Management Innovation and Technological Innovation on Organization Performance. A Mediating Role of Sustainability

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Organizations have several objectives, including competitiveness, high profit and long-term survival. However, sustainability has become a diligent act of business and non-business organizations because it moves organizations toward superior performance. Sustainability does not come itself; it requires enough resources and capabilities. Extant studies have examined the factors that influence sustainability, but have rarely touched on innovation in this perspective. The present study examines the influence of management innovation and technological innovation on organization performance with the mediating role of sustainability. To test the model, we applied structural equation modeling in the analysis of a moment structures (AMOS) on the empirical evidence collected from 304 Pakistani CEOs and top managers. The results indicate that management innovation and technological innovation significantly positively contribute to sustainability and organization performance. Sustainability plays a partial mediating role between management innovation and organization performance and also a partial mediating role between technological innovation and organization performance. We recommend CEOs and top managers to give due attention to management innovation and technological innovation to enhance sustainability and survive the long run. Implications are discussed.

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“…Management theories, such as neoclassical theory, suggest that an organization's main objective is to make profit. Organizations use various techniques and methods to achieve high productivity in this respect [10]. Nevertheless, previous studies found that social, environmental, and economic performance (hereby known as sustainable practices) are key to achieving greater productivity [11,12].…”

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Process Innovation as a Moderator Linking Sustainable Supply Chain Management with Sustainable Performance in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

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Purpose: The aim of this research paper is to significantly contribute to empirical research on the impact of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices on sustainable performances of firms, with the moderating effect of process innovation (PI), in the manufacturing sector in Pakistan. This paper also theorizes comprehensive SSCM practices and sustainable performance models of firms and evaluates them empirically. Two aspects of SSCM experiences have been integrated into the model: internal management and external management practices of a firm's sustainability impact assessment. Research methodology: Using the data from 297 manufacturing firms in Pakistan, this research paper analyzes the influence of sustainable supply chain management practices on sustainable performances of firms with the moderation of process innovation in the said relationship. In this study, we used partial least-squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) for data analysis. Results: The findings demonstrate that both internal management and external management SSCM practices have a positive and significant impact on a firm's sustainable performance, thus supporting hypotheses (H1-H4). Moreover, process innovation as a moderator has a statistically significant relationship between hypotheses H5 and H5c. Originality: For Pakistani firms, comprehensive performance models of SSCM practices are proposed and empirically evaluated. The results of this study help to support the hypotheses that internal and external SSCM practices are necessary for the service sector. Process innovation plays an important role if managed and implemented properly. A number of internal and external SSCM approaches and implications are recommended, along with firm size as a moderator.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2303 19 of 24 may investigate dynamic changes at various SSCM stages by using time series data or panel data. Reducing the subjective factors and biases of the participants and conducting a broader sample survey will be a future piece of work. This study used process innovation as a moderator. Future studies may incorporate other moderating variables, such as firm size, to test the relationship between SSCM practices and a firm's sustainable performance in the service sector of developing economies. Author Contributions: Conceptualization, R.W. and Y.S.; methodology, R.W.; software, H.M.S.; validation, R.W. and Y.S.; formal analysis, F.W.; investigation, R.W.; data curation, M.J.H.; writing-original draft preparation, H.K. and R.W.; writing-review and editing, R.W.; supervision, Y.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Sociotechnical regimes, technological innovation and corporate sustainability: from principles to action

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

A Systemic and Contextual Framework to Define a Country’s 2030 Agenda from a Foresight Perspective

A Systemic and Contextual Framework to Define a Country’s 2030 Agenda from a Foresight Perspective

The Influence of Management Innovation and Technological Innovation on Organization Performance. A Mediating Role of Sustainability

Process Innovation as a Moderator Linking Sustainable Supply Chain Management with Sustainable Performance in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

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