scholarly journals From anthropocentrism to sustaincentrism: case study on beverage companies in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Shamsi Rizvi ◽  
Raksha Garg
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Environmental Strategies ◽  
The One

Business organizations have been facing an unprecedented level of criticisms for being one of the prime contributors to the deterioration of environmental health. These criticisms have prompted organizations to make environmental sustainability a part of their business strategy. The case study on the beverage companies show how organizations are making a shift from anthropocentrism to sustaincentrism. Here we have mainly focussed on how PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have transformed their image from the one that contributes to bad health of the environment to the one that operates in an environment-friendly manner and how their environmental strategies have helped them in balancing the needs of stakeholders while earning profits.

scholarly journals One Environmental Health: an emerging perspective in toxicology

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Pérez ◽  
John Pierce Wise Sr.
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
One Health ◽  
Toxic Chemicals ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Health Initiative ◽  
Environmental Health Research ◽  
Carcinogenic Metals ◽  
The One

The One Environmental Health research approach, a subspecialty of the One Health initiative, focuses on toxic chemicals. Distinct disciplines work together to give a holistic perspective of a health concern through discrete disciplines, including, but not limited to, public health and the medical and veterinary sciences. In this article, we illustrate the concept of One Environmental Health with two case studies. One case study focuses on alligators and contributions to the field of endocrine disruption. The other case study focuses on whales and contributions to understanding carcinogenic metals. Both studies illustrate how the health of sentinel organisms has the potential to inform about the health of humans and the ecosystem.

A Framework for Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies

2011 ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhuvan Unhelkar ◽  
Bharti Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Environmental Compliance ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Environmental Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication

An organization’s future increasingly depends on its environmental sustainability, so it is vital to equip present business architecture with a framework for environmental compliance. A business needs to understand the Green policies, processes that create waste and emissions, enablement of efficient use of resources, metrics for monitoring the greening of the organization and implementation of environmental strategies. This chapter will provide a review of environmental challenges and understanding of the contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in environmental strategies of a business and its sustainable management. A consolidated, systematic approach to the redesign of a business enterprise and to forming an Environmentally Responsible Business Strategy (ERBS) is presented. The methodology includes five activities: Need for reengineering the business architecture, Map and investigate the processes, Design ERBS, Implement reengineered process and employ ERBS and improve continuously to monetize emissions.

Aligning Business and IT Strategies in Multi-business Organizations

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Reynolds ◽  
Philip Yetton
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Corporate Level

The alignment of business and information technology (IT) strategies is an important and enduring theoretical challenge for the information systems discipline, remaining a top issue in practice over the past 20 years. Multi-business organizations (MBOs) present a particular alignment challenge because business strategies are developed at the corporate level, within individual strategic business units and across the corporate investment cycle. In contrast, the extant literature implicitly assumes that IT strategy is aligned with a single business strategy at a single point in time. This paper draws on resource-based theory and path dependence to model functional, structural, and temporal IT strategic alignment in MBOs. Drawing on Makadok's theory of profit, we show how each form of alignment creates value through the three strategic drivers of competence, governance, and flexibility, respectively. We illustrate the model with examples from a case study on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. We also explore the model's implications for existing IT alignment models, providing alternative theoretical explanations for how IT alignment creates value.

scholarly journals Environmental Health-Based Post-Coal Mine Policy in East Borneo

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (E) ◽  
pp. 740-744
Author(s):  
Absori Absori ◽  
Aulia Vivi Yulianingrum ◽  
Khudzaifah Dimyati ◽  
Harun Harun ◽  
Arief Budiono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Resource Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

BACKGROUND: Post-coal mine activities must be carried out by considering good management principles, to avoid negative environmental impacts, especially to avoid land surface imbalance, to avoid destruction of flora and fauna, and more importantly, to maintain the public health. The post-mining regulations based on the priorities of public health and environmental sustainability are designed to increase the human resource quality for the interests of regional development. AIM: This study aims to describe the post-coal mine policy in East Borneo and to formulate the post-coal mine policy as a form of control over ex-mine land from the aspect of environmental health. METHODS: This study uses the qualitative research design. It is a sociolegal type of research with the case study approach toward the currently developing post-coal mine reclamation. This study uses the fishbone analysis. RESULTS: The results of this research show that the supervision toward the ex-mines is still weak. It leads to expanding environmental destruction and some of the companies’ ignorance toward reclamation and post-mining obligations. This condition impacts the water quality, as it is the people’s necessity in fulfilling their basic needs. CONCLUSION: There needs to be a post-coal mine regulation through policies which prioritize environmental sustainability and public health. It includes the optimization of the ex-mine supervision, new regulations as the implementation of the central government’s constitutional regulation, and inspection of environmental health in achieving quality human resources of the region.

Continually harvesting the crowds

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc R.H. Roedenbeck ◽  
Manfred Lieb
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
New Business ◽  
The One

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate how a small business is able to continually use entrepreneurial financial sources (i.e. crowdfunding) within and after a successful transformation from an entrepreneur. It additionally investigates how a market incumbent is able to successfully join the market of entrepreneurial financial resources.Design/methodology/approachTherefore, a comparative case study using qualitative and quantitative data as well as triangulation technique is conducted within the international board game (or tabletop) market at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The US company CMON, which has developed from an entrepreneur to a small business and beyond, is compared with the German incumbent Pegasus. Based on an analysis of a set of key performance indicators suggested in the literature, qualitative and quantitative variables are deductively derived to measure their impact on the financial goal achievement, thereby showing their impact on the goal achievement. During the analysis, additional variables are identified inductively.FindingsAs a result, several qualitative components are found to be crucial, including oral storytelling and computer animated videos/images, a perfect multilingual product language, prototyped components, an active community and a depth and regularity in campaign updates. In quantitative terms, important components include having more product images than longer project descriptions, more optional buys than different but fixed project rewards, a big social network (on Twitter and Facebook), and the number of updates.Research limitations/implicationsBased upon the data and findings, this study invites for more research, especially in conducting a larger scale quantitative analysis using the developed framework to compare more cases within a branch, cases across branches and cases with different background stories.Practical implicationsBut to successfully run a crowdfunding campaign, entrepreneurs and incumbents can use the provided measures as a first design- and decision-roadmap, as well as copying the new business strategy of continually practicing crowdfunding for new products.Originality/valueDespite its limits, this paper offers the first in-depth qualitative and quantitative crowdfunding case study showing on the one hand a new business strategy about crowdfunding as well as providing a structured measure to compare crowdfunding project performance.

scholarly journals Transmission of Place Branding Values through Experiential Events: Wine BC Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3002
Author(s):  
F.J. Cristófol ◽  
Elena Cruz-Ruiz ◽  
Gorka Zamarreño-Aramendia
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Sustainability is to promote economic growth that generates equitable wealth for all without harming the environment, becoming one of the objectives that serve as a starting point for many place branding strategies. Cultural heritage, environmental sustainability, and the valorization of the territory are nowadays unavoidable elements to sustain brands. This research analyzes the transmission of place branding values through experiential events, as a formula for business improvement according to the principles of sustainable development. The research is focused on the case of wine in British Columbia (Canada). The methodology applied was based on a theoretical framework as a starting point for the study. From there, on the one hand, an analysis of the contents of the events carried out by the winegrowers of British Columbia during the harvest months in 2019 and 2020 has been carried out. On the other hand, interviews were conducted with relevant professionals and academics in the sector in order to determine the extent to which they meet the needs of promotion of the site, taking into account the impact on the sustainability of the territory. The results show the link between the events and the territory brand, which is a means to generate growth through wine tourism promoted by the wineries, thus revaluing the winegrowing landscape and, in general, the traditions of the place, among others. There is also a need to look for strategies that seek collaboration between the public and private sectors to improve the creation of integrated events that transmit the branding values of the place. Events are a tool to generate territory branding and can, if well-conceived, contribute to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In the case study, the results show that the vast majority of events organized by BC wineries aim to promote place branding within the framework of sustainability. A methodology that could be applicable to other territories and countries.

A Framework for Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies

2011 ◽  
pp. 201-219
Author(s):  
Bhuvan Unhelkar ◽  
Bharti Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Environmental Compliance ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Environmental Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication

An organization’s future increasingly depends on its environmental sustainability, so it is vital to equip present business architecture with a framework for environmental compliance. A business needs to understand the Green policies, processes that create waste and emissions, enablement of efficient use of resources, metrics for monitoring the greening of the organization and implementation of environmental strategies. This chapter will provide a review of environmental challenges and understanding of the contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in environmental strategies of a business and its sustainable management. A consolidated, systematic approach to the redesign of a business enterprise and to forming an Environmentally Responsible Business Strategy (ERBS) is presented. The methodology includes five activities: Need for reengineering the business architecture, Map and investigate the processes, Design ERBS, Implement reengineered process and employ ERBS and improve continuously to monetize emissions.

scholarly journals Sustainability, Efficiency, and Competitiveness in Rail Mobility: The ADIF-Spain Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8977
Author(s):  
José Ramón García-Aranda ◽  
Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra ◽  
Jara Bernués-Olivan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Driving Mechanism ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Management Evaluation ◽  
Efqm Model ◽  
Quality Management Model ◽  
European Foundation ◽  
The One

This work aims to propose alternatives to the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) Model from the perspectives of sustainability, efficiency, and competitiveness, with an application to the railway sector in Spain. Concerning improvement factors, a retroactive analysis is based on a second-degree confirmatory factorial analysis, suggesting a new grouping of factors. With respect to the transformation process, a systemic proposal of seven cross-cutting elements (Integral Framework for Transformation into Outstanding Organizations) is presented, providing a sequence of reflection and action initiatives to successfully address the current environmental sustainability, efficiency, and competitiveness challenges in the railway sector through a case study, ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias). The proposal for this Integrated Framework for The Transformation of Organizations is carried out to consolidate the EFQM Model, not only as a management evaluation tool, but also as a quality of management and sustainability instrument, increasing its role as a driving mechanism for actions that generate an effective improvement and transformation in an organization dedicated to mobility. The confirmation of all the hypotheses related to the relationship between Leadership and Strategy, on the one hand explanations., and People, Alliances and Resources, and Processes on the other, along with the four Criteria of Results (People, Clients, Society, and Key Results), allows for the proposal of an EFQM Model that evolves around three major constructs: Guidance, Action, and Feedback. The implications of this work focus on three areas: (1) theoretical, as it is the first analysis of this magnitude to be performed in literature; (2) research, as it opens new hypotheses for contrasting with other organizations in the sector; and (3) management, as it proposes a sustainable organizational and business model.

A CASE STUDY OF NL INFLUENCE IN UNIS FKIP ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS' INTERLANGUAGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Irmala Sukendra ◽  
Agus Mulyana ◽  
Imam Sudarmaji
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
Similar System ◽  
The One ◽  
L1 Acquisition

Regardless to the facts that English is being taught to Indonesian students starting from early age, many Indonesian thrive in learning English. They find it quite troublesome for some to acquire the language especially to the level of communicative competence. Although Krashen (1982:10) states that “language acquirers are not usually aware of the fact that they are acquiring language, but are only aware of the fact that they are using the language for communication”, second language acquisition has several obstacles for learners to face and yet the successfulness of mastering the language never surmounts to the one of the native speakers. Learners have never been able to acquire the language as any native speakers do. Mistakes are made and inter-language is unavoidable. McNeili in Ellis (1985, p. 44) mentions that “the mentalist views of L1 acquisition hypothesizes the process of acquisition consists of hypothesis-testing, by which means the grammar of the learner’s mother tongue is related to the principles of the ‘universal grammar’.” Thus this study intends to find out whether the students go through the phase of interlanguage in their attempt to acquire second language and whether their interlanguage forms similar system as postulated by linguists (Krashen).

Interrelationships between municipal spatial policy strategy and airport operation and development. Lodz Airport case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nikorowicz-Zatorska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Spatial Management ◽  
The One ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Abstract The present paper focuses on spatial management regulations in order to carry out investment in the field of airport facilities. The construction, upgrades, and maintenance of airports falls within the area of responsibility of local authorities. This task poses a great challenge in terms of organisation and finances. On the one hand, an active airport is a municipal landmark and drives local economic, social and cultural development, and on the other, the scale of investment often exceeds the capabilities of local authorities. The immediate environment of the airport determines its final use and prosperity. The objective of the paper is to review legislation that affects airports and the surrounding communities. The process of urban planning in Lodz and surrounding areas will be presented as a background to the problem of land use management in the vicinity of the airport. This paper seeks to address the following questions: if and how airports have affected urban planning in Lodz, does the land use around the airport prevent the development of Lodz Airport, and how has the situation changed over the time? It can be assumed that as a result of lack of experience, land resources and size of investments on one hand and legislative dissonance and peculiar practices on the other, aviation infrastructure in Lodz is designed to meet temporary needs and is characterised by achieving short-term goals. Cyclical problems are solved in an intermittent manner and involve all the municipal resources, so there’s little left to secure long-term investments.

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