The Strategy of Sustainability: A Systems Perspective on Environmental Initiatives

Marshall, R. Scott; Brown, Darrell

doi:10.2307/41166234

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“…The following studies, among others, have found evidence for a positive relationship: Hart and Ahuja (1996), Waddock and Graves (1997), Russo and Fouts (1997), Balabanis et al (1998), Margolis and Walsh (2003), Orlitzky et al (2003), Margolis et al (2007), Montabon et al (2007), Callan and Thomas (2009), Peloza (2009), Rugman and Verbeke (2000, Porter and Linde (1995a, b), Marshall and Brown (2003), and Preston (2001). More recent studies that found positive relationship between EP and FP include Tarus (2015) for Kenya, Lin et al (2009) for Taiwan, Mishra and Suar (2010) for India, Hossain et al (2015) for Bangladesh, Lisi (2015) for Italy, and Maletič et al (2015) for multiple European countries (Germany, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Spain).…”

Section: Background and Theory On Environmental Performance-firm Perfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Complexity: the Curvilinear Relationship Between Environmental Performance and Firm Performance

Ramanathan

2016

J Bus Ethics

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The nature of the relationship between environmental performance (EP) and firm performance (FP) of corporations is a long standing and contentious issue in the literature. This study is intended to advance this debate by arguing for the existence of curvilinear relationship and empirically testing the same using survey data on UK manufacturing firms. FP is captured in terms of growth in sales and market share. Our results show evidence for a quadratic relationship-as firms improve their EP, they seem to achieve much higher levels of FP. These results are consistent with the resource-based view of a firm; as firms engage in EP activities, they are able to gain inimitable knowledge that helps in further learning to further improve performance. Based on our results, we suggest that new studies focus on strategies to extend the period of increasing returns and maximizing the benefits of the positive association between EP and FP.

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Section: Background and Theory On Environmental Performance-firm Perfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Complexity: the Curvilinear Relationship Between Environmental Performance and Firm Performance

Ramanathan

2016

J Bus Ethics

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“…NTO's catalogues are of recycled paper and the company is aiming at a 100% organic cotton collection (Marshall and Brown, 2003 Hojensgard, 2005). Yet, sometimes those codes of conduct are of thin glass as implementation is not really checked in practice, and the code may be paradoxical in nature, given strategic decisions towards low-cost, which will likely dominate the daily practices in the shop-floor (Emmelhainz and Adams, 1999;Sum and Ngai, 2005).…”

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Towards a sustainable fashion retail supply chain in Europe: Organisation and performance

Brito¹,

Carbone²,

Blanquart³

2008

International Journal of Production Economics

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Sustainability issues are particularly sensitive to the fashion supply chain, given current fierce competition, intensive resource use, and the exposure of penurious labour conditions in some regions.In this paper we discuss how the sustainability movement is impacting the fashion retail supply chain organization and its performance. We carried out a study with stakeholders of the fashion industry and we report on their views. We elaborate on the challenges and conflicts of the different dimensions of sustainability, and we discuss how to leverage both the internal and external organisations in the European supply chain.

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“…Support for a positive link has also been highlighted in case studies (Rugman and Verbeke, 2000;Porter and van der Linde, 1995;Marshall and Brown, 2003;Preston, 2001) as well. As mentioned earlier, the RBV generally predicts positive association between EP and FP.…”

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The Moderating Effect of Operations Efficiency on the Links between Environmental Performance and Financial Performance: The UK Evidence

Ramanathan¹,

Akanni²

2015

KTIS

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Drawing upon the resource-based-view of a firm, we investigate the moderating role of operations efficiency on the link between environmental and financial performance. Extant literature has highlighted that operations efficiency is closely associated with the environmental/financial performance of firms, but no empirical study has investigated how operations efficiency affects the link between environmental and financial performance. We argue that operations efficiency could act as a moderator of this relationship. To test the hypothesized relationships, we have used available secondary quantitative UK data, namely data on the environmental/financial performance of Britain's most admired companies. By employing moderated regression analysis, we have found strong evidence for the moderating impact of operations efficiency. Our results are useful to managers in that they show that improvements in operations efficiency in a company can also help improve environmental/financial performance and vice versa.

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The Strategy of Sustainability: A Systems Perspective on Environmental Initiatives

Cited by 72 publications

References 4 publications

Understanding Complexity: the Curvilinear Relationship Between Environmental Performance and Firm Performance

Understanding Complexity: the Curvilinear Relationship Between Environmental Performance and Firm Performance

Towards a sustainable fashion retail supply chain in Europe: Organisation and performance

The Moderating Effect of Operations Efficiency on the Links between Environmental Performance and Financial Performance: The UK Evidence

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