Exploring Global Fashion Sustainability Practices through Dictionary-Based Text Mining

2021 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2199826
Author(s):  
Muzhen Li ◽  
Li Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Line Theory ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
Sustainability Theory

Nowadays, more fashion companies have started to adopt various sustainability practices and communicate these practices through their annual public CSR reports. In this study, we aim to provide a holistic perspective of fashion companies’ sustainable development and investigate the sustainability practices of global fashion companies. A total of 181 CSR reports from 29 fashion companies were collected. A Dictionary approach text classification method, combined with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a computer-assisted topic modeling algorithm, was implemented to detect and summarize the themes and keywords of detailed practices disclosed in CSR reports. The findings identified 12 main sustainability practices themes based on the triple bottom line theory and the moral responsibility of corporate sustainability theory. In general, waste management and human rights are the most frequently mentioned themes. The findings also suggest that global fashion companies adopted different sustainability strategies based on their product categories and competitive advantages.

scholarly journals Tinkering With the Plumbing of Sustainable Enterprises: The Case for Field Experimental Research in Corporate Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 108602662110286
Author(s):  
Andrew Spicer ◽  
Marcus Wagner ◽  
Maurizio Zollo
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Randomized Control

In this introduction, we first review the lessons learned in development economics about the ability of randomized control trials to analyse what Duflo refers to as the “plumbing problems” of policy implementation, as opposed to “engineering problems” of policy design. We then examine the papers published within this special issue from a plumbing-based perspective to highlight the benefits of the co-creation of knowledge in corporate sustainability through a field-based experimental agenda. We finally propose that field-based experiments can radically influence the future development of our (and related) fields of inquiry in three ways: (1) focusing on the implementation processes of sustainability strategies, (2) shifting attention from the analysis of past events to the design of future actions, and (3) yielding our role as sole owners of the knowledge development process and agreeing to shared ownership with the organizations we study.

scholarly journals Corporate Sustainability Strategies and Decision Support Methods: A Bibliometric Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fotis Kitsios ◽  
Maria Kamariotou ◽  
Michael A. Talias
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Support Methods

Sustainability is becoming an increasing issue for decision-makers and scholars worldwide and many managers understand the significance of the strategic approach of corporate sustainability. However, they face difficulties in aligning sustainable development and strategic management as well as to implement it in practice. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric analysis exploring the integration of strategic management, decision-making and corporate sustainability, providing a framework of interrelated issues according to the current literature in this area. 72 peer-reviewed papers were analyzed based on Webster’s and Watson’s (2002) methodology. The results of this review revealed that the number of publications in this domain has increased in the last decade, and there is a need to foster research (especially empirical) in this field because managers should find out ways to implement, in action, corporate sustainability strategies and integrate their action plans with their business strategy. This review concludes with a framework that includes the most commonly addressed issues of this topic and provides opportunities and challenges for further research.

Identification and prioritization of corporate sustainability practices using analytical hierarchy process

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen Goyal ◽  
Zillur Rahman ◽  
Absar Ahmad Kazmi
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Corporate Sustainability Performance ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and prioritize the corporate sustainability practices to improve the corporate sustainability performance in the manufacturing sector. Further, these practices are being prioritized to find out the essential practices to ensure logical allocation of limited resources. Design/methodology/approach – It examines the corporate sustainability practices which have been shortlisted from both the literature review and experts judgment. Then, analytic hierarchy process has been used to assess the identified 12 practices of corporate sustainability and to find their priorities for improvement of the corporate sustainability performance. Findings – Based on the hierarchical model developed in this study, the analysis reveals market value, environment management and strategy, research and development, pollution prevention, corporate governance and investor responsibility, which have been found to be the most important practices in improving the corporate sustainability performance. Practical implications – The findings of the study would be useful to the practitioners in the proper allocation of scarce resources to optimize the corporate sustainability performance of firms, especially the manufacturing entities. Originality/value – It is a fact that multi-faceted nature of corporate sustainability includes both subjective and objective dimensions. Therefore, prioritization of corporate sustainability at the factor level is one of the important contributions to the literature that has been addressed in the present study. The results of this paper may be generalized to the other sectors.

scholarly journals Intelligent Identification of Trademark Case Precedents Using Semantic Ontology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Li ◽  
A.J.C. Trappey ◽  
C.V. Trappey
Keyword(s):  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Semantic Ontology ◽  
Machine Readable

A registered trademark distinctively identifies a company, its products or services. A trademark (TM) is a type of intellectual property (IP) which is protected by the laws in the country where the trademark is officially registered. TM owners may take legal action when their IP rights are infringed upon. TM legal cases have grown in pace with the increasing number of TMs registered globally. In this paper, an intelligent recommender system automatically identifies similar TM case precedents for any given target case to support IP legal research. This study constructs the semantic network representing the TM legal scope and terminologies. A system is built to identify similar cases based on the machine-readable, frame-based knowledge representations of the judgments/documents. In this research, 4,835 US TM legal cases litigated in the US district and federal courts are collected as the experimental dataset. The computer-assisted system is constructed to extract critical features based on the ontology schema. The recommender will identify similar prior cases according to the values of their features embedded in these legal documents which include the case facts, issues under disputes, judgment holdings, and applicable rules and laws. Term frequency-inverse document frequency is used for text mining to discover the critical features of the litigated cases. Soft clustering algorithm, e.g., Latent Dirichlet Allocation, is applied to generate topics and the cases belonging to these topics. Thus, similar cases under each topic are identified for references. Through the analysis of the similarity between the cases based on the TM legal semantic analysis, the intelligent recommender provides precedents to support TM legal action and strategic planning.

The Firm Boundary Decision for Sustainability-Focused Companies

2013 ◽  
pp. 263-283
Author(s):  
Ozan Özcan ◽  
Kingsley Anthony Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Firm Boundary

This paper examines the vertical integration level of environmentally sustainable and non-sustainable companies. The first part develops the theoretical foundation for linking sustainability strategies to organizational structure. The second part empirically examines the vertical integration level of 144 sustainability-focused companies in 9 different industries. The results demonstrate that sustainability-focused companies in the Health Care Industry and the Industrials Industry tend to have more vertically integrated organizational structures than their industry competitors that are not pursuing such a strategy since these two industries are production oriented and they have closer relationships with their suppliers. There was no significant difference in the vertical integration level of sustainability-focused versus non-sustainability-focused companies for the other seven industries studied. Research shows the linkage between environmental strategies and vertical integration has not been thoroughly examined. This study’s results are useful to researchers and managers who are interested in corporate sustainability behavior.

An Analysis of Hospitality and Tourism Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 359-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Calhoun ◽  
Alecia Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism

Learning organizations (LOs) have been identified as an innovative practice essential for global businesses to not only effectively compete in today's dynamic environment but also to achieve and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage and increase overall firm performance. The objective of this chapter is to examine the current body of knowledge on LOs and their impact on sustainability practices in an effort to identify what is being done by organizations, where knowledge is applied, and, how systems are created to influence sustainability practices. In the context of hospitality and tourism businesses, the literature examining LOs is limited though a wealth of studies have been conducted in the mainstream. Using a qualitative approach, a content analysis was conducted to investigate its impact on sustainability practices in hospitality and tourism organizations. The results indicate that destinations in particular have adopted this approach to compete globally and to address triple-bottom line sustainability.

The Use of Digital Tools for the Disclosure of Sustainability Reports in the Tourism Sector

2019 ◽  
pp. 222-240
Author(s):  
Inna Sousa Paiva ◽  
Luísa Cagica Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Reports ◽  
A Company ◽  
Sustainability Report

Sustainability is a key topic in tourism because this activity uses territory and local resources intensively. Sustainability is considered as a triple bottom line with the three vertices: environmental, social, and economic. Tourism nowadays is an economic and social phenomenon. Even in a period of crisis, tourism has experienced continued growth and widening diversification to become one of the most important sectors in the worldwide economy. Tourism uses more and more digital tools to communicate with stakeholders. This chapter has a twofold purpose: 1) to analyze the disclosure of information provided to stakeholders using digital tools; 2) to compare the sustainability reports provided by a company with the corporate sustainability report guidelines. This chapter uses a qualitative methodology to study the case of the Pestana Group. The Pestana Group is currently the largest Portuguese hospitality group with operations and hotels all over the world, and this case may provide some clues about the use of digital tools to communicate sustainability results to stakeholders.

E-Novation Curriculum (Communication and Education)

E-Marketing ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 520-538
Author(s):  
Daphne Freeder
Keyword(s):  
Online Research ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Business Training ◽  
Shareholder Returns ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
One To One ◽  
Lateral Thinking ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Generic labelling of consumers does not demonstrate sophisticated marketing and does not reflect the level of analysis that can be done to target appropriate or one to one marketing. On an ethical level, marketers need to focus on permission based marketing and apply co-creation models which have the potential to address the bottom line and shareholder returns without compromising the interests and wellbeing of consumers. Emotion remains the key brand response from consumers, but the new online research environment offers opportunities for marketers to apply analytical diversity and the use of creative and lateral thinking (Cooke & Buckley, 2007), rather than just intrusive marketing practices enhanced by technological capabilities. Improved practice, together with ethics, should be represented in marketing and business training and in the profession. All of this is influenced by technology and its flawed or decent application reflects human intervention as always. How much protection or care then should marketers exercise towards consumers in their environments especially since consumers are deemed to be more sophisticated? Educative systems should also ensure that sustainability practices are a promise of future marketing.

The Effect of Corporate Sustainability Practices on Financial Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Yasar Gok ◽  
Ozan Ozdemir ◽  
Bugra Unlu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Corporate Financial Performance ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Better Than

In this chapter, the impact of corporate sustainability practices (CSP) on corporate financial performance (CFP) is investigated in terms of Turkish manufacturing industry. In this context, 16 sustainable companies vs. 21 control companies in 2016 and 16 sustainable companies vs. 24 control companies in 2017 are examined. Thirty-seven financial performance variables within seven groups are used, and non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test is applied. In 2016, four out of seven significant variables point out that sustainable companies perform better than control sample; however, in 2017, three out of four significant variables indicate the opposite. Therefore, the results are mixed, and it is concluded that implementing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria do not have a noticeable positive effect on financial performances of manufacturing industry companies, at least in the short-term.

East vs. West Approaches to Reporting Corporate Sustainability Strategies to the World

2017 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Jensena Kaplan ◽  
Ivan Montiel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Hofstede’S Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives

This chapter applies Hofstede's cultural dimensions to compare how companies located in Western and Eastern regions present their corporate sustainability strategies to their stakeholders. We compare ten pairs of West-East companies and find that differences in the corporate sustainability strategies they report can be related to geo-political and socio-cultural differences as described by Hofstede. Our findings can serve as a tool for companies in both regions to gain a better understanding about which sustainability initiatives are of more concern, depending on the region they operate.

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