dc.contributor.author | Caldera, HTS | |
dc.contributor.author | Desha, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Dawes, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T12:33:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T12:33:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0959-6526 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.239 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/382495 | |
dc.description.abstract | ‘Sustainable business practice’ is an aspiration for an increasing proportion of small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) around the world, promising profitability, resilience and positive social and environmental
impacts. ‘Lean thinking’ has evolved as a popular business strategy for SMEs to achieve
sustainable business practice, addressing the need for efficiency in production and waste reduction. In
this study we explore the co-evolution of ‘lean and green thinking’ and the potential for lean and green
practices to enable successful transitions to sustainable business practice. Focusing on investigations into
manufacturing SMEs in Queensland, Australia, we first establish four key enablers and six key barriers to
sustainable business practice, derived from a series of in-depth interviews with Chief Executive Officers
and senior managers involved in sustainability and lean manufacturing. We offer an institutional theory
perspective on these findings, concluding the potential for normative, coercive and mimetic drivers to
influence SMEs to shape environmental, social and economic decision making and legitimize the transition
to sustainable business practice. We then present a novel ‘Model of strategic enablers of sustainable
business practice’ to guide SMEs to intentionally use their lean and green strategies to
successfully adopt sustainable business outcomes. We propose that through adopting lean and green
thinking to transition to sustainable business practice, SMEs can more rapidly contribute to the circular
economy at the level of firm. Agencies and professional bodies can support SMEs in this transition
through targeted interventions that address the enablers and barriers presented. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 575 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 590 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Cleaner Production | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 218 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Environmental engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Manufacturing engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Other engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4011 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 401199 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4014 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4099 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Lean and green | |
dc.subject.keywords | Enablers | |
dc.subject.keywords | Barriers | |
dc.subject.keywords | Small and medium-sized enterprises | |
dc.subject.keywords | Institutional theory | |
dc.title | Evaluating the enablers and barriers for successful implementation of sustainable business practice in 'lean' SMEs | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, School of Engineering and Built Environment | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2019 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Desha, Cheryl J. | |