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The Future of Circular Supply Chain
Published in Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji, Frank Ojadi, The Circular Supply Chain, 2023
Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji, Frank Ojadi
There is an intense debate about the potential of green growth to create or destroy employment. in fact, there are two ways to assess the direct impact on employment; one on changes in employment focusing on the green industries and the other involves counting the jobs created by companies that adopt green technologies and the effects on employment taking into account the specific circular and innovative strategies at the firm-level. Circular economy strategies can be classified as eco-process and eco-product innovations. Eco-process innovations could lead to the reduction of the use of energy, materials and water, replacing non-renewable resources by renewable energy, recycling of waste, water or materials, while the product redesign to extend its lifetime is related to product eco-innovation in order to introduce an environmental-friendly product in the market. Considering this classification, the effects of each environmental innovation strategy on employment differ. On the one hand, product eco-innovations have a positive effect through increased demand for new products of the firm, but it also can cause a negative effect through the substitution of non-green products. On the other hand, the adoption of eco-process technologies has a positive effect on employment if their introduction implies to hire new employees (but only if the innovation is not labor saving).
Innovation as a Key Driver of Sustainability in Tourism
Published in Mohammed El Amine Abdelli, Nadia Mansour, Atilla Akbaba, Enric Serradell-Lopez, Sustainability, Big Data, and Corporate Social Responsibility, 2022
Also, green and ecological innovation practices in the tourism sector emphasize the economic dimension, although it is more related to the environmental size of sustainable development. Green management practices may strengthen the image and competitiveness of hotels. According to a study, 75 percent of customers prefer green hotels and do not hesitate to spend more on environmentally friendly hotels. It also contributes to customer satisfaction and loyalty, boosts profits, and finds new markets (Horng et al. 2018). Certain eco-innovations improve financial performance. For instance, they reduce resource utilization and operational costs while increasing labor productivity, market share, and sales (Wang et al. 2020). Eco-innovation aims at economic growth by enabling new professions and improving new products, services, and processes. Using alternative energy resources such as geothermal and solar energy in tourism enterprises is one of the leading eco-innovations and water storage and reuse. The importance of healthy food consumption in hotels and restaurants and eco-innovations, such as growing their vegetables in their gardens to serve them to their customers, provides tourism enterprises and destinations with sustainable advantages (Alonso-Almeida et al. 2016).
How to Improve Environmental Performance via Green Innovation-Oriented Practices and Managerial Environmental Concerns?
Published in Amina Omrane, Khalil Kassmi, Muhammad Wasim Akram, Ashish Khanna, Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy-Based Projects, and Digitalization, 2020
Lahcene Makhloufi, Meirun Tang, Amina Omrane, Mohamad Zamhari Bin Tahir
Due to rapid industrialization and its awful effects on humanity, local authorities in many countries have faced severe environmental concerns mainly caused by the poor efficiency of resource use and pollution. More especially in China, environmental degradation has become a problematic issue that has contributed to the development of Chinese initiatives toward greening ventures and green trade as a whole (Haibo, Ayamba, Agyemang, Afriyie, & Anaba, 2019). From this perspective, eco-innovation has been pursued as one of the major driving forces for caring about environmental sustainability. Such specific form of innovation refers mainly to eco-friendly products, green entrepreneurship, green industry, and/or innovation based on ecological concerns. To eco-innovate, the Chinese authorities called upon developing green innovation practices, regarded as a vital lever for advancing industry, customer satisfaction, and business growth in line with responding to environmental concerns (ecological and socioeconomic ones) (Chen, Yi, Zhang, & Li, 2018). Indeed, according to Feng and Chen (2018), performance of green innovation practices can be obviously increased through: deploying clean technologies to filter hazardous waste, greening production systems to reduce CO2 emissions, and affording a green workplace environment to encourage employees’ performance. Such practices will in turn lead to sustain eco-friendly products that suit customers’ environmental awareness and advance green business growth, taking into account environmental concerns (Feng & Chen, 2018).
A plithogenic based neutrosophic analytic hierarchy process framework to analyse the barriers hindering adoption of eco-innovation practices in supply chain
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Zulfiquar N. Ansari, Ravi Kant
Eco-innovation is defined as ‘the production, assimilation or exploitation of a product, production process, service or management or business method that is novel to the organization (developing or adopting it) and which results, throughout its life cycle, in a reduction of environmental risk, pollution and other negative impacts of resources use (including energy use) compared to relevant alternatives’ (Kemp and Pearson 2008). It can reduce the environmental impact of the SC along with value addition (Bitencourt et al. 2020). Adoption of eco-innovation practices can help organisations develop novel products that use clean energy, create less pollution, and can be recycled (Severo, De Guimarães, and Dorion 2018). Moreover, eco-innovation results in economic benefits such as reduced product and service cost through efficient resource utilisation and better logistics management (Lee, Wu, and Tseng 2018). Furthermore, the increase in prosperity of the society coupled with sustainability, creation of competitive economy, new industries being set-up, and employment generation are the social benefits of eco-innovation practices adoption (Carrillo, del Río González, and Könnölä 2009). Eco-innovation also helps create brand image in the market and better relationships with the consumers, suppliers, employees, and authorities (Sarkar 2013).
The engineering of food with sustainable development goals:policies, curriculums, business models, and practices
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Hiam Serhan, Gwenola Yannou-Lebris
Dynamic capabilities are the skills that organisations develop to sense and seize new business opportunities. In the food sector, they include understanding market and social requirements, creating new knowledge, recruiting responsible partners, and mobilising resources to eco-design and eco-innovate sustainable agricultural and agro-industrial practices (Yannou-LeBris and Ferrandi 2016). Eco-design or eco-efficiency means considering the environmental impacts of a product in the early stages of its life cycle (Kendall and Spang 2019). Eco-innovation consists of integrating circular-economy principles into both social and environmental innovation processes and being mindful of waste and end-of-life recycling (Ademe 2018); in a circular economy, the food waste of one process is reused as a resource in another process. Eco-innovation transcends traditional eco-efficiency, which concerns a reduction in resource inputs, including energy, as well as in waste and emissions and at least one of the four dimensions of sustainable development in food: economic, environmental, social, and nutritional (Yannou-LeBris et al. 2019; FAO 2014).
Drivers of multidimensional eco-innovation: empirical evidence from the Brazilian industry
Published in Environmental Technology, 2019
Olivan da Silva Rabêlo, Andrea Sales Soares de Azevedo Melo
The analysis also suggests that the company's characteristics and product and information management strategies as well as the rigidity of environmental regulations, are drivers of eco-innovation in their multi-dimensions. The results revealed that the size positively influences the propensity of the companies to significantly innovate in environmental aspects. Similarly, political action, in the form of state subsidies, promotes eco-innovation among innovative industries. Interestingly, in the export and multinational industries, the results did not present statistical significance in the three dimensions.