Sustainability practices: trends in New Zealand businesses

Collins, Eva; Roper, Juliet; Lawrence, Stewart

doi:10.1002/bse.653

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“…Recognizing the multi-dimensional nature of sustainability, a rapidly growing literature documents a wide range of specific sustainability practices being implemented by organizations (see, for example, Hahn and Scheermesser, 2006;Collins et al, 2010;Maletic et al, 2011;Fairfield et al, 2011). One key starting point in the debate on sustainability management is the inclusion of stakeholders and the integration of their respective demands (Seuring and Gold, 2013), which is suggested to be a critical process that helps organizations to understand their key environmental and social impacts (Rocha et al, 2007).…”

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The Relationship between Sustainability– Oriented Innovation Practices and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Slovenian Organizations

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Background and Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the effects of sustainability-oriented innovation practices on the overall organizational performance. Further, this paper also aims to advance understanding of the measurement of corporate sustainability practices with the focus on innovation dimensions. Design/Methodology/Approach -The study uses data obtained from a survey of 116 organizations encompassing both the manufacturing and service industries in Slovenia. Descriptive statistics were used in order to determine the level of sustainability-oriented innovation practices deployment. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to extract the underlying factors and to provide a basis for assessing their reliability and validity. In addition, regression analysis was used to quantify the effect of sustainability practices on the organizational performance.Results -Data analysis result showed that sustainability-oriented innovation practices are significantly associated with organizational performance. Therefore, empirical evidence from this research confirmed the premise that building innovation competencies and integrating innovation activities in organization's processes lead to performance benefits. This contributes to the debate about the potential for organizations to be sustainable and competitive. Conclusion -The presented research on corporate sustainability provides important theoretical and practical insights on which the deployment of sustainability-oriented innovation practices are conducive to fostering a broader set of performance benefits. As such, managers should increase organizations' capacity for innovation which can be beneficial in terms of performance implications and achieving sustainability goals.

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Section: Sustainability Practicesmentioning

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The Relationship between Sustainability– Oriented Innovation Practices and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Slovenian Organizations

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“…Although they are committed to research that will benefit the profession, they are also committed to academic research. For example, although CIMA requires the initial reports produced to have a professional focus, the extent of research undertaken ensures the outcomes can be published in an academic journal (Collins et al, 2004(Collins et al, , 2007(Collins et al, , 2010Lawrence et al, 2006, for examples of CIMA-funded research published in academic journals. )…”

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Using university websites to profile accounting academics and their research output

Samkin

Schneider

2014

Meditari Accountancy Research

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the profiles of Australian, New Zealand and South African accounting faculty members. Additionally, the study investigates whether there are any differences in research productivity of the accounting faculty between countries as measured by peer-reviewed academic journal output. Design/methodology/approach -This archival study uses details obtained from webpages of Departments of Accounting in the three countries to construct a profile of accounting academics. Findings -Significant differences in the profiles of accounting academics were found that can be attributed to the institutional factors that exist in each country. Staffs at the junior lecturer and lecturer levels are more likely to be female, while senior lecturers and professors in all three countries were more likely to be male. While Australia and New Zealand had a similar percentage of staff holding PhD or equivalent academic qualifications, only a small proportion of the South African faculty held PhD or equivalent qualifications. A greater proportion of the South African faculty was professionally qualified compared to their Australian and New Zealand counterparts. New Zealand accounting faculty was more productive than their Australian colleagues, with South African academics being the least productive. Academics holding a doctoral qualification or equivalent were more productive than those that did not. Research limitations/implications -The research limitations relate to the use of websites as the primary data source. Incompleteness of information, inconsistencies in the type of information presented and a lack of comparability of information across institutions and countries may have led to some errors and omissions. However, given the relatively large sample size of 2,049 academics, this was not deemed to materially affect the final analysis. Originality/value -The paper provides an important contribution to the literature on accounting academics. It is the first of its kind to present a comprehensive "snapshot" of the profiles of accounting academics at the universities in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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“…Among the three sustainability "pillars", i.e. environmental, economic and social, the aspect of social sustainability has been widely acknowledged as the least developed [3][4][5], especially in the operations context. The literature provides a very broad scope for the social aspect ranging from a global to a local scale, sometimes without distinguishing that achieving social sustainability may require different approaches in developed and developing countries.…”

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Social Implications of Introducing Innovative Technology into a Product-Service System: The Case of a Waste-Grading Machine in Electronic Waste Management

Taghavi

Barletta

Berlin

2015

Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth

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Abstract. This paper examines the social implications of introducing a new technology into the product-service system (PSS) of electronic waste management (EWM). Using a previously established set of social sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) targeting the operations level (i.e. impacts on EWM operators), social implications are examined in a case where a specific innovative new technology is introduced to replace manual sorting of e-waste into re-use, refurbish and recycle fractions. The social sustainability KPIs were applied to the case as a structured interview guide. The results showed that the KPI framework provided a good basis for examining the social impacts and also stimulated discussions about potential business impacts based on the human resources in the system. The framework showed that the implementation supported proactive social sustainability, but some additional conditions need to be addressed by the customer organization to make sure that potential risks (identified in the interview) are mitigated.

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Sustainability practices: trends in New Zealand businesses

Cited by 108 publications

References 16 publications

The Relationship between Sustainability– Oriented Innovation Practices and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Slovenian Organizations

The Relationship between Sustainability– Oriented Innovation Practices and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Slovenian Organizations

Using university websites to profile accounting academics and their research output

Social Implications of Introducing Innovative Technology into a Product-Service System: The Case of a Waste-Grading Machine in Electronic Waste Management

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