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Green supply chain management innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: An ecological modernization perspective

15 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

January–March 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Volume 29, Issue 1

Drawing on diffusion of innovation and ecological modernization theories, we identify three types of industrial manufacturers, namely early adopters, followers, and laggards, based on the adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices among Chinese manufacturers. Test results indicate that differences exist between the three types of GSCM adopters in terms of their environmental, operational, and economic performance. Understanding how Chinese manufacturers adopt GSCM practices and if this adoption affects their performance contributes theoretical advancement to the diffusion of innovation theory. Practically, the results provide managerial insights for manufacturers to benchmark for environmental management practices and performance improvement.

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The future of environmental networks—Governance and civil society in a global context

15 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

November 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures, Volume 44, Issue 9

Knowledge networks are a recent innovation in global environmental governance. They provide a means for local and regional initiatives aimed at averting, mitigating, or adapting to climate change and other trans-boundary problems to join together in a system that: permits sharing of experiences, diffuses policy innovation across national borders, and spans divergent disciplinary boundaries so as to better communicate science to local decision-makers. We consider the role currently played by networks and the possibility that, over time, their soft power characteristics – a reliance on value change and policy emulation – may eventually place them in a position to globally coordinate local and regional environmental policy innovations. If successful, their efforts might supplant the need for national action to address climate change, even if they do not replace the nation-state system whose environmental management efforts will continue to rely on hard power: the use, primarily, of economic incentives to induce policy change.

“ICLEI provides technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local level. Our basic premise is that locally designed initiatives can provide an effective and cost-efficient way to achieve local, national, and global sustainability objectives.” – International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives – website, 2010

“When California passed its global warming law two years ago, we were out there on an island, so we started forming partnerships everywhere we could. We teamed up with Great Britain, the Canadian provinces, and the Western and Northeastern states and with states like those of my co hosts – Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Wisconsin and more. And right here, for the first time, we have officials from China, India, Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia and across the world in the same summit, working toward the same goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and growing green economies in our own backyards.” – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Global Climate Summit. Los Angeles, California. November 18, 2008.

Highlights

► We show how knowledge networks help countries better disseminate local experiences in adopting to climate change and other environmental problems. ► We show how the emergence of these networks has paralleled the decline of developed country influence in international for a responsible for resource and environmental problems and the increase in developing country influence on these matters since World War II. ► While established means of international power and influence on environmental matters – based on trade, aid, and economic influence will continue and remain pre-eminent – we show how soft power networks, based on shared values and experiences, will grow in legitimacy.

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Time, cash and services: Reforms for a future sustainable long-term care

15 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

September 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures, Volume 44, Issue 7

The elder care sector is at the core of a radical restructuring process as all the European countries strive to cope with demographic and social change. While current and prospective rapid population ageing is expected greatly to increase the demand for elder care services, financial constraints, social change and rising female employment all act as obstacles to the provision of an adequate supply of care labour.

In their search for a financially sustainable response to these challenges the EU countries have brought in various reforms designed to mobilise resources and achieve more cost-efficient results. The paper presents an analysis of the main objectives of care reforms – making care affordable, favouring the creation of a care market, and making work pay – as well as their possible trade-offs. In fact, entailing as it does a larger role for the family, greater reliance on home care may clash with the goal of a higher female activity rate; good jobs and decent working conditions in the care sector may run counter to the principle of care affordability for the greatest possible numbers, while subsidising demand may conflict with public finance sustainability. These interactions, and the interdependence between the care market and the rest of the economy, are crucial factors that will need to be considered in order to ensure consistency between goals and policies.

Highlights

► Demographic and social change and financial constraints call for a radical restructuring of the elder care sector. ► Care reforms need to take account of trade-offs. ► Greater reliance on home care may clash with the goal of a higher female activity rate. ► Good jobs and decent working conditions in the care sector may conflict with care affordability. ► Subsidising demand may conflict with public finance sustainability. ► Consistency between goals and policies should consider interdependence between the care market and the rest of the economy.

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Future generations: widespread changes in our living-together

15 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

Available online 30 November 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures

When highlighting the needs of the future and of the present, sustainable development concepts often neglect how these needs are born: the relationship between future and present generations. This special issue contributes to this discussion with linking papers on futures generations in different interpretations and dimensions: emerging generations of futures theories, youth surveys, education and emerging powers.

Highlights

► In modern futures studies there are several emerging issues and areas of interests related to different generations–in a wide sense: ► New generations of futures studies in an overall aspect, where emerging paradigms of futures theories, their relations and organizations receive focus. ► Generations in time. This is the classical approach to generations where social layers by age and values create the basis of discussion. ► Relations in time. Intergenerational relations, like education, between ages and values are core issues of a historic era and the transition out of it. ► Generations in space. Visions and views of new generations from non-dominant societies are welcome.

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