scholarly journals Determining factors driving sustainable performance through the application of lean management practices in horticultural primary production

2018 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 400-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darian Pearce ◽  
Manoj Dora ◽  
Joshua Wesana ◽  
Xavier Gellynck
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Determining Factors

People Management Practices that Underpin Lean Management Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renu Agarwal ◽  
Christopher Bajada ◽  
Paul James Brown ◽  
Roy Green
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Lean Management

Determinants of environmental accounting and reporting practices in Portuguese local entities

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Paula Ribeiro ◽  
Cristina Aibar-Guzmán ◽  
Beatriz Aibar-Guzman ◽  
Sónia Maria da Silva Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Regulation ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Environmental Management Practices ◽  
Determining Factors

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop environmental accounting and reporting practices (EARPs) by Portuguese local entities and their determining factors. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained through a postal survey. In order to measure the degree of development of environmental accounting and reporting practices index was developed, which reflects the extent to which a set of eight EARPs have been implemented by the 69 Portuguese local entities included in the sample. Three variables are considered in this study as possible factors that drive the development of environmental management practices (EMPs) by local entities, namely, size of entity, accounting framework, degree of development of EMPs. Findings – Results indicate the degree of development of EARPs in Portuguese local entities is low. Additionally, accounting regulation and the degree of development of EMPs are explaining factors of the degree of development of environmental accounting practices in Portuguese local entities. Originality/value – This study adds to the international research on environmental accounting in public sector by providing empirical data from a country, Portugal, where empirical evidence is still relatively limited.

Exploratory study of adoption of lean management practices in Pakistani textile firms

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 338 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Khurrum S. Bhutta ◽  
Ana L. Rosado Feger ◽  
Faizul Huq ◽  
Asif Muzaffar
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Lean Management

scholarly journals Enhancing Sustainable Performance through Green Supply Chain Management Practices: A Study of Malaysian Manufacturing Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Rohani Abdullah ◽  
Marini Nurbanum Mohamad ◽  
Ramayah Thurasamy
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Performance

This paper investigates the effects of green supply chain management practices on sustainable performance. This study sent a survey to 616 Malaysian ISO 14001 certified manufacturing companies. With a total of 152 usable questionnaires, the response rate was 24.68%. The findings showed that green purchasing and eco-design were found to improve all the components of sustainable performance. While reverse logistics was found to have a positive impact on social performance only. These relationships indicate that Green Supply Chain Management Practices can be of value to organizations specifically, as well to the external environment at large.

scholarly journals Influence of lean–green practices on organizational sustainable performance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manori Pathmalatha Kovilage
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Inventory Level ◽  
Green Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Lean Practices ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Lean And Green

PurposeThe key objectives of this study were to investigate the interactions among the lean, green management practices and organizational sustainable performance measures and explore the possibility of simultaneous implementation of these concepts for improving the organizational sustainable performance.Design/methodology/approachUsing the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) technique, the interactions among the lean, green practices and organizational sustainable performance measures were established. A focus group which consisted of purposively selected 15 experts was utilized in the primary data collection.FindingsIn Sri Lankan context, water and material consumption reduction, energy efficiency, water pollution and greenhouse gas reduction were identified as the dominant green practices, while pull production, lot size reduction, continuous improvement, preventive maintenance, employee involvement and cycle time reduction were the dominant lean practices. Inventory level, profitability, quality, cost, employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, lead time, resources consumption (material, water, energy) and waste generation were determined as the dominant sustainable performance measures. The resulting ISM-based structural model which consisted of eight levels concluded that firstly lean practices influence the green practices and afterward green practices affect the sustainable performance measures.Research limitations/implicationsThe aim of this study was to develop a hypothetical structural model to explain the interactions among the lean, green management practices and organizational sustainable performance measures. But this hypothetical model was not empirically tested in the current study. So further study is required to empirically test the proposed model.Practical implicationsCurrently organizations who practice for sustainable performance engages, lean and green practices separately without understanding on which practices are stared when and how. So, through the findings of this study, organization who desire to improve the sustainable performance are recommended to begin the journey with lean practices and subsequently move in to green and handle both lean and green initiatives through one functional unit.Originality/valueThe existing literature does not possess a model for explaining the lean–green synergy and organizational sustainable performance and this study successfully fills this gap. Also the study proposes for the practitioners, when and how the lean and green practices should be initiated and implemented for rising the sustainable performance of an organization.

The impact of harvesting native forests on vegetation and soil C stocks, and soil CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 654 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Page ◽  
R. C. Dalal ◽  
R. J. Raison
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Soil C ◽  
C Storage ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
C Stocks ◽  
Ch4 And N2o ◽  
The Impact

Australia’s harvested native forests are extremely diverse in terms of species-mix, disturbance history and ecology, forest productivity and C storage. Our understanding of the effects of harvesting on C storage and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from these systems is incomplete, and this paper consolidates current Australian knowledge, places this in a global context, and identifies areas requiring further study. The uptake of CO2 and the re-accumulation of forest C stocks after harvesting or other disturbance is largely dependent on forest primary production. However, in Australian native forests, knowledge of rates of primary production for the diverse range of species and management practices present is poor. Soil respiration rates following harvest have also been largely unquantified for Australian systems. It is essential that both these parameters are quantified if estimates of net ecosystem production (NEP) are to be made. It is generally acknowledged that harvested forests have a negative NEP, and thus are sources of C, immediately following harvest, but attain a positive NEP as the forest regrows and photosynthetic capacity increases. The magnitude and time course of these changes are largely unknown for most Australian forest systems. In addition, little data are available to quantify the effect on soil C storage, and where estimates have been made these are often subject to methodological uncertainty and are thus highly contentious. Following harvest, the changes that occur to soil structure, moisture content, and N cycling may also influence CH4 and N2O flux, although these fluxes also remain largely unquantified in harvested Australian forests. Given the significant changes to NEP, CH4 and N2O fluxes observed after forest harvest in international studies, it is expected that GHG fluxes would typically increase from Australian native forests following harvest, and then slowly decrease over time as biomass accumulates, and N2O and CH4 fluxes return to background levels. However, it is currently difficult to quantify the magnitude and time course of these changes due to a lack of both gas flux and primary production measurements. Clearly, further research effort to quantify these parameters throughout Australia is required in order to obtain a more reliable picture of the effects of harvesting and other disturbances on forest GHG balance.

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