sustainability performance Articles
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Company culture and EHS / sustainability performance
Recognizing and managing your company’s culture is critical to understanding and managing EHS and sustainability performance. Performance is driven by employee behaviors, and employee behaviors are driven by the intangible aspects of your company’s culture that are not written down in policies, programs and procedures. All behavior is rewarded, whether it is desired or unwanted ...
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Software monitoring on sustainability performance on the rise
New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years. New survey reveals companies using software to monitor sustainability performance rose by 50% in the last four years.The proportion of companies that use software to monitor their sustainability performance increased by 50% between 2006 and 2010, according to a new survey from ...
By Vital Energi
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Symantec - How an IT Company improves its Sustainability Performance
Sector: Information Technology (IT) Region: US Organisation: Symantec was founded in 1982 and the company has become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 20,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to individual consumers, small businesses and the largest global organisations, helping them to ...
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Airports and Sustainability: Achieving High Performance Sustainable Airports
Airports are the nodes and pulses of the modern day world or let’s say the highly connected ‘Global Village’. They have enabled the governments and corporate in galvanizing the whole logistic and supply chain networks, thereby building both local as well as national economy. However the flip side is that airports are guzzling resources worth billions of dollars each year, and ...
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Are stock markets influenced by sustainability matter? Evidence from European companies
The emergence of ethical investment is a sign of the increasing interest of shareholders in the impact of corporate activities on sustainable development. The objective of this article is to analyse the relationship between the sustainable performance of a company and its financial performance measured by stock market value. Belonging to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, disclosing a Global ...
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Sustainable manufacturing practices, sustaining lean improvements and sustainable performance in Malaysian automotive industry
This exploratory study seeks to determine the interrelationship between sustainable manufacturing practices (SMP), sustaining lean improvements (SLI) and sustainable performance (SP) in Malaysian automotive industry. The specific goals are: 1) to identify the SMP, SLI and SP measures for Malaysian automotive industry; 2) to investigate the impact of SMP and SLI on SP for Malaysian automotive ...
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Benchmarking inter-organisational technology cooperation: the link between infrastructure and sustained performance
Cooperative efforts among government, industry, and universities have gown in importance as strong contributors to the nation's technological and economic competitiveness in the global environment. Such efforts include cooperation among networks of government R&D/technology laboratories, industrial R&D laboratories, and universities. The resulting novel organisational formats created to ...
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Does the business size matter on corporate sustainable performance? The Australian business case
While a growing majority of research studies have concentrated on triple bottom line public reporting in large organisations, the review of past research suggests there seems to be limited support and importance given to small and medium sized businesses. This paper attempts to examine whether business size matters when it comes to corporate sustainability. To achieve this, we have conducted an ...
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Measuring sustainability performance in industrial parks: a case study of the Kwinana industrial area
Industrial parks/areas are increasingly required to substantiate their environmental and sustainability performance with increasing pressures from both government and the community. In order to address these pressures the Kwinana industrial area in Western Australia has started the development of a sustainability roadmap centred on a set of sustainability indicators developed through proactive ...
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A Business Case of Green Building Rating System: Q&A with Conserve Consultants
You can actually measure, at every point of the design and project development, where you are and systematically build upon the performance of the building, where you want to be. If you want to see how you can go up the ladder of sustainable performance, you would want to use a suitable green rating process. Click to Read ...
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Assessing sustainability performance of built projects: a building process approach
Existing environmental performance assessment approaches focus on the overall performance to reflect sustainability of built projects. However, the impacts caused by construction activities on the environment occur throughout a project's life cycle which may be different at different stages. Similarly, the economic benefits and social impacts from implementing a construction project may also be ...
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Green economy: assessing the greenness of the Malaysian economy
The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive definition of a green economy and further to assess the greenness of the Malaysian economy. The study also shows how different definitions and policy approaches are likely to meet economic development goals. The study is entirely based on secondary data (e.g. academic journals, trade journals, books, magazines, government reports, corporate ...
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Improving reporting performance by streamlining responses to multiple frameworks
As investor interest in sustainability performance grows and companies come under more regulatory pressure to disclose their impacts, businesses are increasingly directing significant resources to external reporting. Disclosing progress in line with rigorous reporting frameworks and respected analyst surveys is integral to improving transparency and lowering reputational risk. However, with no ...
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Greenwashing-Nothing to do with laundry
In the free market the consumer is king! Companies compete for the loyalty of their customers in an effort to retain their market share and profitability. We, as consumers, care about the practices of companies in relation to the environment and society and the way they produce their products. We love companies that want to make a change and do good!We love companies that have environmentally ...
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Corporate social responsibility and the challenge of triple bottom line integration: insights from the Lebanese context
The notion of sustainability has been evolving and is increasingly understood to encompass considerations of economic viability, as well as environmental sustainability and social responsibility. This paper examines how linking these three legs of sustainability remains a challenge and explores empirically the performance of a sample of Lebanese organisations in the three strands of ...
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Towards a theory of dynamic control mechanisms
In this paper, a theory of dynamic control and how it may contribute towards promoting innovation in the high performing organisation is introduced. Programmed innovation occurs as a result of top down conscious efforts by the top management. Emergent innovation occurs spontaneously from the bottom up. In today's dynamic environments, competitive positioning and strategic adaptation should be ...
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Applying environmental performance indices towards an objective measure of sustainability in the Levant
An 'Environmental Diamond' for the Levant is proposed, similar to the World Bank's 'Development Diamond'. It would serve as a framework for evaluating ecosystem risk for the countries in the Jordan Basin that are currently facing a sustainability crisis. The approach followed by this paper was based on previous work carried out in East Asia. The result is an integrative index that reveals a ...
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Heineken International - Case Study
CSE encouraged the organization to go beyond legal compliance, achieve an internal common understanding in the field of social responsibility, and to complement other initiatives for social responsibility. CSE assessed Athenian Brewery’s sustainability performance against the criteria of ISO 26000. About… Heineken International (Athenian Brewery) Heineken International has wide ...
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Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK
This paper draws on a series of five ESRC-funded seminars held between 2006 and 2008 on 'Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK'. We sketch the background to sustainability in HE, distinguishing between teaching about and for sustainability and arguing that the move to latter has prompted questions about the sustainability performance of universities themselves. We ...
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The sustainability performance of the water and sanitation services in Santiago de Chile
The water and sanitation sector in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (MRS) is mainly privately owned or operated. The sector prides itself on having a modern and effective regulatory framework. Nevertheless there are still sustainability deficits existing as far as governance structures and integrated water resource management are concerned. This paper analyzes the sustainability ...
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