Nascent Entrepreneurship and Sustainability on the Beverage Sector

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-238
Author(s):  
Rita Miranda Almeida ◽  
Rute Abreu ◽  
José A. Perez-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Mineral Water ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Soft Drinks ◽  
Spring Water ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurship ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Natural Mineral Water ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

This research analyses the nascent entrepreneurship and sustainability on the beverage sector through the financial performance of the new emerging business of Portuguese companies. It explains the economic and financial results of new and older companies and discuss the best strategies adopted by them. Most companies are small, characterized by the same selling products: natural mineral water and spring water, flavoured water and soft drinks. Indeed, the research address the sustainability challenges, demands of major investments in sustainable businesses that will provide triple bottom line. The research adds knowledge and transfer to the society, because it is unusual research about entrepreneurship in beverage sector through the new demands on the market reality.

scholarly journals Complexity and the triple bottom line: an information-processing perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 1142-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Wiengarten ◽  
Muhammad Usman Ahmed ◽  
Annachiara Longoni ◽  
Mark Pagell ◽  
Brian Fynes
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of complexity on the triple bottom line by applying information-processing theory. Specifically, the paper assesses the impact of internal manufacturing complexity on environmental, social, and financial performance. Furthermore, the paper assesses the moderating role of connectivity and shared schema in reducing the potential negative impact of complexity on performance. Design/methodology/approach Multi-country survey data collected through the Global Manufacturing Research Group were utilized to test the hypotheses. The authors used structural equation modeling to test the measurement and initial structural model. Furthermore, to test the proposed moderating hypotheses, the authors applied the latent moderated structural equations approach. Findings The results indicate that while complexity has a negative impact on environmental and social performance, it does not significantly affect financial performance. Furthermore, this negative impact can be reduced, to some extent, through connectivity; however, shared schema does not significantly impact on the complexity-performance relationship. Originality/value This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of complexity on sustainability. Furthermore, it provides managerial applications as it proposes specific tools to deal with the potential negative influences of complexity.

Aava Natural Mineral Water (A)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Jaiswal ◽  
Harit Palan ◽  
Ingita Jain
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Water ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Natural Mineral Water

scholarly journals Can cyanobacteria infect underground water sources? Evidence from a small scale monitoring of natural mineral water drinking source

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Gkelis ◽  
Aristidis Vlamis
Keyword(s):  
16S Rdna ◽  
Mineral Water ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Water Source ◽  
Biosynthetic Gene Cluster ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
Cyanobacterial Blooms ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Natural Mineral Water

The expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms is of worldwide concern as they have increased globally in frequency and intensity in recent decades. A cyanobacterial colony was found in a bottle of natural mineral water of a small water company in July 2012, which led to a further examination for a period of five months (July-November 2012) of both the bottled filtered water and the originating groundwater source (N. Greece) for the occurrence of Cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria occurrence was monitored by microscopy and cyanospecific 16S rDNA amplification; potentially toxic species occurrence was screened by mcyA gene (known to take part in the MC-biosynthetic gene cluster) amplification. The highest abundance of cyanobacterial cells without the simultaneous presence of the mcyA gene, was measured in July, in contrast to October when the presence of cyanobacteria was only identified by tracing cyanospecific 16S rDNA and the mcyA gene region in the underground water source. The results of this small scale monitoring program indicate the potential existence of an emerging danger for human health in a relatively manageable product such as the bottled natural mineral water. 

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