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Assessment of business incubators' green performan A framework and its application to Brazilian cases

18 Mai

Clics: 5328

Articles scientifiques

Publication year: 2012
Source:Technovation, Volume 32, Issue 2

Sergio Azevedo Fonseca, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour

The lack of proposals to evaluate the greening of business incubators – or even of elementary discussions about the relations between incubators and the environment – becomes apparent when researching this topic in the most prestigious scientific sources. To address this gap, this article reviews the literature on green management and smaller enterprises, business incubator performance and the greening of business incubators. This conceptual big-picture was used to identify variables relevant to the construction of a framework for assessing business incubators' green performance. This framework was applied to six business incubators in Brazil. The results show the appropriated applicability of this framework. Furthermore, the empirical research led to the formulation of environmental maturity levels in order to classify business incubators performance. This paper seeks to offer a starting point for discussion and a proposal regarding the role of business incubators in a more sustainable society.

Highlights

► There is a lack of proposals to evaluate the greening of business incubators. ► We propose a new framework to assess business incubators' green management. ► This framework was tested in six Brazilian business incubators. ► We propose a green maturity levels to classify business incubators performance. ► We offer a discussion regarding the role of business incubators in sustainability.

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

15 Mai

Clics: 5691

Articles scientifiques

Publication year: 2012
Source:Futures

Annamaria Simonazzi

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.

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Sustainability Poll Results: Organization, Collaboration and Trends

15 Mai

Clics: 5435

Articles scientifiques

Last month we conducted a brief poll to help us think about some of the questions we are considering for this year’s sustainability research, both the survey and interviews. The polls closed last week, and we’ve got some charts depicting reader responses below. Question:Where did sustainability initiatives begin in your organization? Our first question was [...]

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The Four Organizational Factors That Built Kimberly-Clark’s Remarkable Sustainability Goals

15 Mai

Clics: 5551

Articles scientifiques

Peggy Ward, director of the Enterprise Sustainability Strategy Team at Kimberly-Clark Corporation As director of the Enterprise Sustainability Strategy Team at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Peggy Ward helps to oversee a company with a long and impressive history. The consumer packaged goods company is 140 years old, and today has 57,000 employees in 36 countries. Every day, [...]

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