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Corporate sustainability: an integrative definition and framework to evaluate corporate practice and guide academic research
Mehdi Amini,Carol C. Bienstock +1 more
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In this article, the authors present an illustrative corporate sustainability framework consisting of elements that are easily understandable and interpretable with respect to tangible corporate sustainability activities and actions, which can assist in the evaluation of sustainability activities, as well as serve as a guide for an organization that aspires to increase the level and sophistication of its sustainability activities.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2014-08-01. It has received 214 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability organizations & Corporate sustainability.read more
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A natural resource-based view of the firm
TL;DR: In this paper, a natural resource-based view of the firm is proposed, which is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development, and each of these strategies are advanced for each of them regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.
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Recent advances in carbon emissions reduction: policies, technologies, monitoring, assessment and modeling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors mainly focus on investigations of technical innovations and policy interventions for improved energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in a wide diversity of industrial, construction and agricultural sectors at different scales, from the smallest scales (firm or household), cities, regional, to national and global scales.
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The circular economy in the textile and apparel industry: A systematic literature review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four themes, drivers, barriers, practices, and indicators of sustainable performance when applying a circular economy in the textile and apparel industry, and establish a conceptual model based on these four themes to illustrate the relationship between them.
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Corporate sustainability approaches and governance mechanisms in sustainable supply chain management
Marco Formentini,Paolo Taticchi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical investigation is proposed by analysing seven case studies through the lenses of contingency theory, the strategic alignment perspective and the resource-based view of organisations, and a classification of the governance mechanisms on the basis of their level of collaboration and formalisation.
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Using project management as a way to sustainability. From a comprehensive review to a framework definition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework for project managers to deal with sustainable projects based on the assumption that project products designed using sustainability criteria, sustainable project processes, and project managers trained in sustainability are all necessary elements, although not enough to attain sustainable projects.
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A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm
TL;DR: In this paper, a natural resource-based view of the firm is proposed, which is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development, and each of these strategies are advanced for each of them regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.
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From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management
Stefan Seuring,Martin Müller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review on sustainable supply chain management taking 191 papers published from 1994 to 2007 into account, and a conceptual framework to summarize the research in this field comprising three parts.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
TL;DR: McDonough and Braungart as discussed by the authors argue that the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place.