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‘Green’ Human Resource Benefits: Do they Matter as Determinants of Environmental Management System Implementation?
- 08 Juin
- Clics: 7540
- Articles scientifiques
Abstract
This article analyses whether benefits arising for human resource management from environmental management activities drive
environmental management system implementation. Focusing on employee satisfaction and recruitment/retention, it tests this
for German manufacturing firms in 2001 and 2006 and incorporates a rare longitudinal element into the analysis. It confirms
positive associations of the benefit levels for both variables with environmental management system implementation on a large
scale. Also it provides evidence that increasing levels of environmental management system implementation result from higher
economic benefits in the human resource domain. In doing so the article supplies needed quantitative evidence on important
aspects of how sustainability relates to human resource management.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-14
- DOI 10.1007/s10551-012-1356-9
- Authors
- Marcus Wagner, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Julius Maximilians University, Stephanstr. 1, 97070 Wuerzburg, Germany
- Journal Journal of Business Ethics
- Online ISSN 1573-0697
- Print ISSN 0167-4544
Analysis of factors influencing the development of transport infrastructure until the year 2030 — A Delphi based scenario study
- 07 Juin
- Clics: 6252
- Articles scientifiques
Publication year: 2012
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Steffen W. Schuckmann, Tobias Gnatzy, Inga-Lena Darkow, Heiko A. von der Gracht
In this paper, we present the findings of a web-based real-time Delphi study concerning the factors which will influence the future development of the transport infrastructure until the year 2030. Intensifying globalization, increased urbanization, ongoing shortages in public finances, and the requirements of a more demanding and growing world population are some of the challenges, which global transport will face. This research identifies, assesses, and integrates long-range developments of various factors, such as supply and demand, financing, competitiveness, and sustainability, which will affect the future of the transport industry and its infrastructure. Results are presented in a final probable scenario, which is divided into four different scenario aspects. Moreover, managerial and governmental implications for strategy and policy development are discussed.
► A systematic framework to interpret Delphi study results is proposed. ► A probable scenario regarding “Transport Infrastructure 2030” is provided. ► The scenario is developed from four different aspects: supply and demand, finance, competitiveness, and sustainability. ► Implications for political and corporate decision makers are derived.
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Steffen W. Schuckmann, Tobias Gnatzy, Inga-Lena Darkow, Heiko A. von der Gracht
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HARNESSING INNOVATION FOR CHANGE: SUSTAINABILITY AND POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- 05 Juin
- Clics: 6036
- Articles scientifiques
To date, a well-developed business perspective on how to promote sustainability for those in poverty is sorely lacking. For sustainability enhancing innovations in developing countries, poverty presents unique challenges. In this paper, we argue that if sustainability enhancing innovations introduced in developing countries are to stick, they need to be designed with local customers, networks, and business ecosystems in mind. We illustrate this view using case examples from mobile telephony, fuel efficient stoves, clean drinking water, and household electrification. Our paper underscores the need for today's managers to understand poverty as an integral part of the sustainability nexus and the new international business equation.© 2012 The Authors. Journal of Management Studies © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
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