scholarly journals Challenges Companies Encounter When Delivering Sustainable Solutions: Research Conducted in the United Arab Emirates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Seretny ◽  
Asli Cazorla Milla ◽  
Muhammad Azeem ◽  
Deepika Gaur ◽  
Dennis Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Sustainability Theory ◽  
Further Development

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the challenges faced by business organizations implementing sustainable solutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the wider Gulf Coast Countries (GCC) region. To this end, our study examines an academic theory supporting the implementation of responsible solutions to the market. Ultimately, the authors hope to inspire the reader to consider what he or she can do to ameliorate the existing challenges encountered by sustainable businesses. The analysis presented in this article implies that in recent markets, the implementation of the sustainability theory is essential for further development. The research project contributes to the increase of knowledge about corporate and organizational challenges related to running a responsible business, as well as challenges related to the application of environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable business practices. The research is currently limited to conceptual analysis, literature review and a survey conducted during the Sustainability Week 2019 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Nevertheless, this is the first stage of the research project conducted by the research team in cooperation with enterprises that implement responsible solutions in many global markets, and in UAE market. The scope of the first stage of the study was limited to the analysis of data clarifying the concept of the model specified in the research. To prove the validity of the model it will be implemented and tested in cooperation with organizations participating in the research.

Connecting the Dots

2017 ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Olajumoke Ogunsanya
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Relationship

Calls for businesses to act with concern for the environment and society create new operating scenarios in which sustainability concerns must be taken into consideration along with the primary objectives of profitability and competitiveness. These additional obligations contribute to dynamism of the marketplace and make it important for businesses to draw on creativity and innovation to find connections between the unrelated in order to establish new efficiencies that can create competitive advantage and differentiation in the environment they find themselves. The central theme of this chapter is how bisociation informs collective creativity and innovation, and influences sustainability for business organizations competing in an environment that is in a permanent state of flux. This chapter trails a series of concepts to find the relationship between the concept of bisociation, collective creativity and sustainable business practices. The aim is to show how consistent creative thinking and exploration of information in different spaces of thought can proffer innovative solutions organizations require for their long term survival and prosperity.

scholarly journals Sustainopreneurship and Its’ Role in Sustainable Fashion Brands of India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11S) ◽  
pp. 503-506
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
First Case ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on sustainopreneurship (Abrahamsson, 2007; Schlange 2009) and its’ role in developing, innovative yet sustainable business practices for the sustainable fashion brands of India. The findings of this study are centring on selected brands which are coming up with sustainable solutions within the context of the processes, product, people and work-place. This study uses in-depth interviews and guided conversations with the entrepreneurs of the selected sustainable fashion brands of India to build case studies on two such brands following the ethnographic methodology (O'Reilly, 2012). The first case focuses on a brand which is moving towards a zerowaste production unit by creating their sustainable solutions of procuring raw materials, designing the products and innovating with the waste generated at their workplace. The second case is about a brand which focuses on up-cycling the already produced material which has been discarded by the manufacturers or producers due to defects, misprints, stitching wastes among others. These two brands use different ways to design their products and have come with sustainable solutions for a greener planet and have been ardently working towards that goal. The study concludes that the zeal behind these brands’ practices, visions and goals is because of the moral compass of their respective entrepreneurs pointing towards ethical behaviour which forms the roots of ‘sustainopreneurship’.

Fostering Responsible Business

2017 ◽  
pp. 309-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Rahdari
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Responsible Business Practices ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Shed Light

Corporate social responsibility networks and associations play a significant role in fostering responsible business yet there exists a lacuna in the literature regarding the role of these networks and associations in augmenting responsible business practices. Furthermore, research studies with regard to how they function seem to be non-existent. Following this line of argument, this study attempts to shed light on these ambiguities by examining three leading networks. The results suggest that corporate sustainability and responsibility networks and associations play the role of facilitators, by providing tools and services, and incentivize business organizations to take measurable actions towards corporate sustainability. Moreover, they function as the engine of growth for responsible and sustainable business ecosystem. With their growing influence and the mainstreaming of responsible practices, a review of their objectives, organizational structures, types of activities, practices and impacts using a reviewing framework would provide a solid background for future research.

Sustainable business models

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils M. Høgevold ◽  
Göran Svensson ◽  
Beverly Wagner ◽  
Daniel J. Petzer ◽  
H.B. Klopper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Sustainable Business Models

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe: corporate reasons for, and organizational challenges of sustainable business models; and the evolution of economic effects, social boundaries and environmental actions in sustainable business practices. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on insights gained from eight Norwegian companies in different industries. Purposeful sampling was employed to ensure that the companies had sustainable business models beyond the level of mere compliance, of sustainable business practices in the marketplace and society. A deductive approach to data collection ensured that the companies had sufficient understanding to relate their sustainable business practices to interviewers. The interviews were subsequently transcribed and analyzed systematically by the research team. Findings – The empirical findings indicate evolutionary changes as companies move on a continuum from superficial to embedded sustainable business models and the application of sustainable business practices. The planning, implementation and evaluation of sustainable business models evolves over time within companies and their supply chains, as well as in the marketplace and society. Research limitations/implications – A limitation of this study is that it is exclusively undertaken in Norwegian companies, although the companies are from different industries with different characteristics. Future research is clearly necessary and will be conducted in other countries in similar industries, so as to explore the empirical findings from this study in other contexts. In addition, the interfaces between environmental actions, economic effects and social boundaries need to be investigated further. Originality/value – The study contributes to a growing body of knowledge on corporate reasons for and organizational challenges of sustainable business models, as well as environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable business practices.

Fostering Responsible Business

2019 ◽  
pp. 1519-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Rahdari
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Responsible Business Practices ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Shed Light

Corporate social responsibility networks and associations play a significant role in fostering responsible business yet there exists a lacuna in the literature regarding the role of these networks and associations in augmenting responsible business practices. Furthermore, research studies with regard to how they function seem to be non-existent. Following this line of argument, this study attempts to shed light on these ambiguities by examining three leading networks. The results suggest that corporate sustainability and responsibility networks and associations play the role of facilitators, by providing tools and services, and incentivize business organizations to take measurable actions towards corporate sustainability. Moreover, they function as the engine of growth for responsible and sustainable business ecosystem. With their growing influence and the mainstreaming of responsible practices, a review of their objectives, organizational structures, types of activities, practices and impacts using a reviewing framework would provide a solid background for future research.

Connecting the Dots

2020 ◽  
pp. 1173-1188
Author(s):  
Olajumoke Ogunsanya
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Relationship

Calls for businesses to act with concern for the environment and society create new operating scenarios in which sustainability concerns must be taken into consideration along with the primary objectives of profitability and competitiveness. These additional obligations contribute to dynamism of the marketplace and make it important for businesses to draw on creativity and innovation to find connections between the unrelated in order to establish new efficiencies that can create competitive advantage and differentiation in the environment they find themselves. The central theme of this chapter is how bisociation informs collective creativity and innovation, and influences sustainability for business organizations competing in an environment that is in a permanent state of flux. This chapter trails a series of concepts to find the relationship between the concept of bisociation, collective creativity and sustainable business practices. The aim is to show how consistent creative thinking and exploration of information in different spaces of thought can proffer innovative solutions organizations require for their long term survival and prosperity.

Green Investment Financing Instruments

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Vilma Kazlauskiene ◽  
Aura Draksaite
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Investment Promotion ◽  
Investment Financing ◽  
Green Investment ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Further Development

The chapter analyses the peculiarities of current green financing instruments. Rapid development of these instruments markets prompts the need to comprehend the main factors behind it, and thus the necessity to recognize opportunities to profit by the occasion. In the chapter, such green financial instruments as green bonds, green equities, and green loans are discussed. Also, private green investment promotion instruments are overviewed. Current green financial instrument market development trends are presented, and main contributing factors are provided. Furthermore, main challenges of investing and development of environmentally sustainable business practices are analyzed. Based on the analysis results, insight regarding further development of green financial markets is offered.

Role of Positive Emotions in Organisational Coping

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2and3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibhuti Gupta ◽  
Devalina
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Support Layout

The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions postulated by Barbara L. Fredrickson proposes that emotions like joy, interest, contentment, and love enable an individual to broaden his/her patterns of thinking and acting, which in turn build the personal coping resources, whether intellectual, physical, social, or psychological, by way of creating novel ideas, actions or social relationships. This paper is a review of 15 empirical studies carried out during 1998-2012 that support the contributions of this theory to the creation of a healthy workplace by fostering positive emotions in employees. Positive emotions were found to be pivotal in enhancing employee performance, encouraging innovation and creativity that result in sustainable business practices, helping organizations make good decisions, facilitating work-flow and motivation, developing authentic and charismatic leadership styles, job enrichment, better team performance, and satisfactory customer relations. A link between positive emotions and an upward spiral of personal and organizational resources has also been established where positive self-evaluation, development of resilience, a climate of social support, layout of clearer goals, high quality social-interaction, good health and productivity of workers have been found to promote effective coping.

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