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Pollution prevention as corporate entrepreneurship
Lober, Douglas J. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 26-37
market opportunities. Pollution prevention is a new concept of the idea of environmental entrepreneurship as it is process … answer is: why have firms done so little pollution prevention given its many benefits? Using the entrepreneurship literature … as a framework, this study examines threats and opportunities of pollution prevention, the marshaling of combinations of …
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Lessons from benchmarking environmental performance at automobile assembly plants
Rothenberg, Sandra; Schenck, Brian; Maxwell, James - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 12 (2005) 1, pp. 5-15
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand benefits and problems with different approaches to benchmarking environmental performance in manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach – This paper shares the experience of a research program developing environmental benchmarking...
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From backyard to commercial hog production
Huang, Weiming; Qiao, Fangbin; Liu, Huaiju; Jia, Xiangping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 8 (2016) 1, pp. 22-36
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of structural changes in hog production manure management practices. Design/methodology/approach – The data used in this study are obtained from a large-scale nationwide hog producers’ survey in rural China conducted by the...
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Towards Kyoto II: numbers matter!
Lane, Jan‐Erik - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2009) 1, pp. 75-79
, then it is not tenable to argue that pollution goes with affluence. On the contrary, poor or medium income countries with a … population size has a huge impact upon pollution and emissions. Practical implications – Global ecological pressure is the …
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The informational value of Toxics Release Inventory performance
Connors, Elizabeth; Johnston, Holly H.; Gao, Lucia S. - In: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 4 (2013) 1, pp. 32-55
Purpose – The study aims to evaluate the informational value to investors of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) as an external outcome measure of corporate environmental performance. Emphasis is placed on the market response differences between three highly polluting industries....
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Strategic analysis of offshore migration of polluting firms and suppliers: an option value perspective
Lee, Tzong‐Ru (Jiun‐Shen); Chen, Yenming J. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 17 (2012) 6, pp. 666-674
, instead of relocating to offshore or so called pollution havens. Originality/value – The paper contributes to the existing …
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Environmental human resource management and competitive advantage
Carmona‐Moreno, Eva; Céspedes‐Lorente, José; … - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 10 (2012) 2, pp. 125-142
benefit from the advantages in costs and differentiation derived from the implementation of pollution prevention technologies … management practices in the relationship between pollution prevention technologies and economic performance. Empirically, it …
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Explorations in Biofuels Economics, Policy, and History: Introduction to the Special Issue
Gardner, Bruce; Tyner, Wallace - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 5 (2007) 2
Biofuels are prominent in current discussion both as a solution to problems and as a creator of problems. They have promise as a substitute for fossil fuels, particularly for petroleum as the raw material for transportation fuel. But biofuels also have pitfalls, especially when produced at a...
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A driver in every car: when the auto industry says jump, do governments say “how high?”
Buigues, Pierre André - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 4, pp. 3-10
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic and political conditions that could explain why the governments in developed economies have intervened in the automobile industry. The author identifies the main reasons and the shortcomings of these public interventions....
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Optimal delivery time and subsidy for IT-enabled food delivery platforms considering negative externality and social welfare
Zhao, Bin; Tan, Haoquan; Zhou, Chi; Feng, Haiyang - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 123 (2023) 5, pp. 1336-1358
externality. This study aims to provide managerial implications on the decisions of delivery time and subsidy for food delivery … subsidy provided to delivery drivers to maximize the gig platform's profit and compare the results with those of a socially … subsidy when the food price becomes higher; nevertheless, the platform should shorten the delivery time and lower the subsidy …
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