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Ramanathan S, Isaksson R. Sustainability reporting as a 21st century problem statement: using a quality lens to understand and analyse the challenges. TQM JOURNAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/tqm-01-2022-0035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeThis paper explores quality science and quality management as a potential pathway to resolve the challenges of corporate sustainability reporting (CSR) by establishing the need for a common understanding of sustainability and sustainable development.Design/methodology/approachSecondary research on key documents released by regulatory institutions working at the intersection of sustainability, corporate reporting, measurement and academic papers on quality science and management.FindingsExisting measurement frameworks of CSR are limited. They are neither aligned nor appropriate for accurately measuring a company's ecological footprint for mitigating climate change. Quality for sustainability (Q4S) could be a conceptual framework to bring about an appropriate level of measurability to better align sustainability reporting to stakeholder needs.Research limitations/implicationsThere is a lack of primary data. The research is based on secondary literature review. The implications of Q4S as a framework could inform research studies connected to sustainable tourism, energy transition and sustainable buildings.Practical implicationsThe paper connects to CSR stakeholders, sustainability managers, company leaderships and boards.Social implicationsThe implications of sustainability on people, purpose and prosperity are a part of World Economic Forum's stakeholder capitalism.Originality/valueThis paper fills a research gap on diagnosing and understanding the key reporting challenges emerging from the lack sustainability definitions.
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LAGER THOMAS, FUNDIN ANDERS. DEPLOYMENT OF INNOVATION METHODOLOGIES AS SUPPORTING INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PRODUCT INNOVATION PROCESS IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1142/s1363919622500578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Previous empirical research on the industrial use and usability of methodologies and tools for product innovation is often based on national samples, and generally focuses on a few select industry sectors and typically lacks a perspective on methodologies as supportive instruments for the product innovation work process. Moreover, even if some studies recognise the problems with low company methodology awareness and use, the underlying causes remain unexplained. In a survey mode of inquiry involving informants in 19 global manufacturing companies in six sectors of the process industries, this study explores use and usability of methodologies in the development of non-assembled products in the process industries. While the findings demonstrate a rather scarce use of innovation methodologies, when they are used case-company informants not only report a high degree of usability but also recommend that all introduced methodologies should be included in an enhanced product innovation work process. The discussion advocates that an overarching strategy for methodology use should be institutionalised by company R&D management, including a “methodology tool-box” of select methodologies, and further facilitated by trained methodology experts as “ambassadors”.
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- THOMAS LAGER
- School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden
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- School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden
- SIQ — The Swedish Institute for Quality, Gothenburg, Sweden
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How Positive and Negative Environmental Behaviours Influence Sustainable Tourism Intentions. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14116922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study developed and examined a theoretical model of moderated mediation in which positive and negative environmental behaviours (e.g., attitudes, destruction, conservation, and eco-friendliness) serve as a moderating mechanism that explains the link between the two critical mediating effects of escape and sustainable experiences on revisit intentions. The results of a study of 483 foreign tourists provide support for our hypothesized model. First, the results showed that motivations have indirect and positive effects on revisit intentions through sustainable experiences and escape-seeking. Second, the moderating effects of positive environmental behaviours were found to be positive, while negative environmental behaviours had negative effects on the dimensions of escape and experience on revisit intentions for sustainable tourism. Third, we discussed how this interesting pattern of the moderated mediation setting could be explained by using the theoretical background and considering previous studies on sustainable tourism.
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