Waste management strategies for Software Development companies: An explorative text analysis of business sustainability reports

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunasalam Sambhanthan ◽  
Vidyasagar Potdar
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Reports

Assessing and Benchmarking Sustainability in Organisations

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunasalam Sambhanthan
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

This article proposes an integrated conceptual model for assessing and benchmarking sustainability initiatives in organisations. Recent relevant published literature in the business sustainability assessments and benchmarking related domain has been surveyed and documented. Business sustainability is being conceptualised using two approaches, namely abstractive decomposition and typology. The conceptualisations derived from both of these approaches have been integrated to construct a new conceptual model for the theorizing of business sustainability from a holistic perspective. A text visualisation of the sustainability reports of ten large-scale software development firms have been done to look at the density of sustainability concepts in practice-based documentations, such as company reports. The conceptualisations derived through both the abstractive decomposition and the typology have been validated using the secondary data aggregation done from the analysis of reports. The article concludes with a summary highlighting the key aspects of the chapter.

Airline Effective Waste Management Strategies

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-109
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Hybrid Strategy ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Action Category

This chapter reports the effective wastes management strategies. To achieve this aim, the waste management practices of 14 airlines from four regions were investigated. The data used in this chapter was a secondary published data in the annual sustainability reports. The data was retrieved from GRI (Global Reporting Initiatives) website. The special tailored data analysis techniques were used for this purpose. The chapter reported four on-board and ground strategy patterns and three hybrid patterns. Hybrid strategy patterns were better ranked than the most of on-board and ground strategy patterns. This chapter helps the decision makers and the academics alike, since the impact of each action under each action category of each pattern on wastes reduction was reported.

Sustainability Strategies for Software Development Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-203
Author(s):  
Arunasalam Sambhanthan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Practical Implications

Business sustainability is critical for any industry. In the software sector, this is often well practiced by organizations according to their sustainability reports. The work documented in this chapter aims to analyze the sustainability reports of software development firms from India to document the best practices in business sustainability. Ten large-scale software development firms were selected, and the themes such as efficiency enhancement, health and safety, opportunity maximization, productivity enhancement, risk management, value creation, and waste management were explored in the reports. The results are presented in this chapter that integrates the knowledge on the practical implications that software organizations in the rest of the world could adapt for better management of sustainability initiatives.

Identifying the best practices in green operations strategy of hospitals

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1106-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yazan Khalid Abed-Allah Migdadi ◽  
Abeer Ahmad Omari
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Operations Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hazardous Waste Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
Two Stages

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the best practices in the green operations strategy of hospitals. Design/methodology/approach A total of 25 cases from all over the world were investigated. The source of data was the annual sustainability reports that were retrieved from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) database. The present research adopted the benchmarking method and the quantitative content analysis of sustainability reports. Then, the indicative models of best practices were developed by using two analysis approaches; within cluster analysis and across clusters analysis. Findings This study found four major taxonomies of green operation strategy in hospitals. The significant strategic groups were resources/waste management; electrical power management; non-hazardous waste management; and emissions/resources management. Indicative models for the relationship between actions and key green performance indicators were developed in the two stages of the analysis. Originality/value The best practices of green operations strategies in hospitals have not so far been investigated. Countries around the world should obey the new regulations for their environmental footprint; if they do, it will exert pressure on all sectors and organizations at all levels to take immediate steps to measure and improve their environmental performance.

scholarly journals Geographies of fat waste. Or, how kitchen fats make citizens

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 700-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Ibáñez Martín ◽  
Marianne de Laet
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
A Site

While waste marks the beginning of relocation, re-materialization, and resourcing processes, it is also a set of connections, producing specific figurations of citizenship that follow from, as they inform, waste management strategies. This article regards household practices to do with the disposal of used fats as a site where citizenship forms. The authors see the figure of ‘good citizen’ appear along the trajectory of kitchen fats. They contrast this figure with the ‘re-user,’ who acts by a different set of rules, so as to explore logics and normativities embedded in the mundane processes of discarding fats. Fat waste not only turns out to be different things for different stakeholders; it is in different fat disposal practices that different (kinds of) stakeholders emerge. As the authors situate citizenship in mundane practices, kitchen fats suggest the situational, material-relational character of waste and waste-eliminating schemes – and of citizenship itself.

Identification of waste management strategies and waste generation factors for thermal power plant sector wastes in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-218
Author(s):  
Cansu Demir ◽  
Ülkü Yetiş ◽  
Kahraman Ünlü
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Bottom Ash ◽  
Thermal Power Plants ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Process Modification

Thermal power plants are of great environmental importance in terms of the huge amounts of wastes that they produce. Although there are process-wise differences among these energy production systems, they all depend on the logic of burning out a fuel and obtaining thermal energy to rotate the turbines. Depending on the process modification and the type of fuel burned, the wastes produced in each step of the overall process may change. In this study, the most expected process and non-process wastes stemming from different power generation processes have been identified and given their European Waste Codes. Giving priority to the waste minimization options for the most problematic wastes from thermal power plants, waste management strategies have been defined. In addition, by using the data collected from site visits, from the literature and provided by the Turkish Republic Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, waste generation factor ranges expressed in terms of kilogram of waste per energy produced annually (kg/MWh) have been estimated. As a result, the highest generation was found to be in fly ash (24–63 for imported coal, 200–270 for native coal), bottom ash (1.3–6 for imported coal, 42–87 for native coal) and the desulfurization wastes (7.3–32) produced in coal combustion power plants. The estimated waste generation factors carry an important role in that they aid the authorities to monitor the production wastes declared by the industries.

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