•This study estimates the material recycling effect on environmental quality and economic development in the United States.•Few studies have been studied through national scale material recycling, ...environmental, and economic indicators.•This study employs a novel bootstrapping autoregressive distributed lag modeling for investigating the attributes’ causality interrelationships.•This study utilizes quarterly data from 1990 to 2018.•This study is to confirm an uni-directional causality from material recycling to economic growth, carbon emissions, and energy efficiency.
This study contributes to estimate the municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling effect on environmental quality and economic growth in the United States. Few studies have been given to macro-level aggregate analysis through national scale MSW recycling, environmental, and economic indicators. This study employs bootstrapping autoregressive distributed lag modeling for investigating the cointegration relationship among MSW recycling, economic growth, carbon emissions, and energy efficiency utilized quarterly data from 1990 to 2017. The result implies that a one percent increase in MSW recycling contributes to economic growth and reduce carbon emissions by 0.317% (0.157%) and 0.209% (0.087%) in the long-run (short-run). Similarly, a one percent improvement in energy efficiency stimulates economic growth by 0.489% (0.281%) and mitigates carbon emissions by 0.285% (0.197%) in the long-run (short-run). A higher per capita income and population growth caused higher emissions by 0.197% and 0.401% in the long-run. The overall results reveal stronger impacts in the long-run than the short-run with significant convergence towards long-run equilibrium, suggesting a prominent long-run transmission of economic and environmental fallouts. This study confirms a uni-directional causality from MSW recycling to economic growth, carbon emissions, and energy efficiency. These outcomes signify that any policy intervention related to MSW recycling produces significant changes in the level of economic growth and carbon emissions. The finding provides valuable insight for policymakers to counteract carbon emissions through recyclable waste management that simultaneously create significant economic value.
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Sustainable consumption and production is identified as one of the essential requirements for sustainable development. Due to different economic conditions and socio-cultural factors, sustainable ...consumption and production requires a diverse focus in developing and developed economies. To date, few efforts have been made to systematically compare the status of sustainable consumption and production and its direction from the perspective of developing and developed economies. This paper provides a literature review of published articles in international scientific journals related to sustainable consumption and production between 1998 and 2018 inclusive. Three carefully designed questions are proposed and answered in this article, forming the basis for conducting a comprehensive comparative analysis of the differences and challenges in sustainable consumption and production practices within developed and developing economies. The findings strongly suggest that countries in Europe hold international leadership in sustainable consumption and production practices. This finding, alongside others, is analyzed and discussed in greater detail in this paper, resulting in the articulation of gaps and future research opportunities in the current body of the literature.
•Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in two distinct economies is studied.•A three-dimension taxonomy is designed for performing the content analysis.•It is found that Europe hold international leadership in SCP practices.•SCP is a complicated and slow process with uncertain grounds in both economies.•Current trends and future research opportunities in SCP practices regarding different economies' status are articulated.
•There is a growing interest in applying blockchain technology in supply chain operations.•Research on blockchain configuration receives less attention as compared to others, such as impact and ...function.•Discussion on sustainability is limited as compared to other themes.•More research should be carried out under the themes of coordination, performance and order management.•The voices of different stakeholders should be considered in academic research.
In the past few years, blockchain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin, has received considerable attention from academia and industry. It is widely accepted that blockchain technology causes disruptive changes in supply chain operations that can overcome supply chain difficulties encountered in realizing information sharing, maintaining traceability in the entire process and improving operational efficiency. However, the application of blockchain technology in the supply chain field is still in its infancy, which limits an understanding of its potential. This article uses descriptive and content analysis to review publications related to blockchain-based supply chains between 2017 and 2020 inclusive. To fully explore research on blockchain-based supply chains, four well-designed questions are proposed and addressed, namely, the value of blockchain in supply chains, the attraction of scholars to particular supply chain themes, the development of research methodologies and illustration types in adopting blockchain in supply chains, and the types of industries involved in blockchain-based supply chains. The results reveal that there is growing interest in applying blockchain technology to supply chain operations. A detailed analysis of findings is provided to identify the future opportunities of blockchain-based supply chains, including prospects for tertiary industries and concerted efforts that are necessary to explore sustainability themes. This article provides valuable information to help scholars and practitioners better determine the relevant research topics to accelerate the development of blockchain-based supply chains.
This study aims to review the literature in green supply chain management (GSCM) published from 1998 to 2017 and presenting insights and directions for future research. The study collects data from ...Scopus and ISI Web of Science databases and objectively selects 880 papers and conducts metadata analysis. In addtion, 236 papers from ISI Web of Science is analyzed to present the insights along with the classifications of the literatures based on content analyses, which comprises of conceptual development, drivers and barriers, collaboration with supply chain partners, mathematical and other optimization models, and assessment of green supply chain management practices and performance. The study finds that research on drivers or barriers analysis of green supply chain management reveals a declining trend while there is a growing trend of applying mathematical optimization models for enhancing decision making in pursuit of environmental performance. Moreover, the study finds a consistent growth in the evaluation of green supply chain management practices and performance. Though, the concept of green supply chain management started gaining popularity among academicians from the beginning of the 20th century, this study finds a sharp growth of publications on the topic after 2010 until now. This study identifies influential authors, top journals, top contributing countries, top contributing institutions and contribution by disciplines. This study presents a comprehensive but straightforward conceptual model of green supply chain management. The findings and future research directions of the study offers a new avenue for further exploration and contribution to this discipline.
To reveal the origin of the IoT, evaluate its mainstream research topics, and discuss the challenges facing the IoT in the future, this paper conducts a bibliometric study of the IoT from 2000 to ...2019. First, this paper presents a basic bibliometric overview of the IoT. Second, co-citation, coupling and cluster analysis methods are used to analyse collaboration networks, and VOSviewer is used to visualize the networks. Third, biblioshiny is used to analyse the thematic trends of IoT. Finally, this paper discusses IoT challenges and provides some suggestions to address them. The limitations of this paper are also summarized. Research results show that, the mainstream studies in this field mainly focus on IoT security, wireless sensor networks, IoT management, IoT challenges and privacy. In addition, the thematic evolution of keywords shows that security and algorithm issues have become basic themes in the field of IoT research in recent years.
Sustainability issues have received considerable attention from corporations that embrace corporate sustainability, which focuses on the triple bottom lines of societal, environmental and financial ...returns or impacts. However, although corporate sustainability has been studied in depth by analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, no studies have involved social media as part of the decision-making process to evaluate a Taiwanese-printed circuit board manufacturing focal firm. This study proposed appropriate attributes and developed the following hybrid method: (i) evaluate the weights of the aspects and attributes as described by qualitative and quantitative data and (ii) analyze how the use of social media modifies their decision-making process. The findings demonstrate that to acquire benefits from sustainable design, code of conduct and eco-products, firms must increase their exchange across corporate functions when dealing with these unexplored sustainability activities. In conclusion, this study compared the results of the above-described data using the Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) weighted average method with vague sets and presents the managerial and theoretical implications for operations management studies.
As green growth is considered an effective method to save energy and reduce emissions, the questions of how to achieve it and which factors drive green growth have become hot topic. Although there ...are some studies on the factors impacting the achievement of green growth, they are limited in quantity. Moreover, most of them are primarily focused on specific influencing factors, such as political factors, environmental regulation (ER), technological innovation (TI), and so on; while there is little discussion of the interaction effects in an integrated methodological framework. Accordingly, this paper develops an integrated model to investigate the relationships among ER, TI and regional green growth performance (RGGP). The model is tested using empirical data on 30 provincial administrative regions in China during 2011–2012 by employing structural equation modeling (SEM) approach that can effectively investigate the relationships between observed and latent variables and the relationships among latent variables simultaneously. The hypothesis H1 of this paper is not confirmed, and the results show that ER has a significant negative effect on RGGP. Both the hypotheses H2 and H3 are confirmed, namely, ER significantly positively influences TI, and TI has a positive impact on RGGP. This finding provides empirical evidence to support the Porter Hypothesis that properly designed ER may positively affect RGGP through motivating TI. According to the results of hypotheses H1, H2 and H3, we find that ER couldn’t directly promote RGGP, but RGGP will be positively impacted by TI driven ER. The finding supports the view of ecological modernization theory that green growth practices may be promoted by TI driven ER, but whether ER can bring green growth practices is uncertain. Furthermore, the finding indicates that TI is a bridge for linking ER and RGGP. Based on our findings, we present some important implications that can be useful for policy-makers and enterprise managers to promote green growth practices in China.
•Relationships among technological innovation, environmental regulation and regional green growth performance are studied.•Empirical study of 30 Chinese provincial regions during 2011–2012 is conducted.•Environmental regulation has a negative effect on regional green growth performance.•Regional green growth performance is improved by technological innovation driven environmental regulation.•Technological innovation plays a bridge role between environmental regulation and regional green growth performance.
This research uses a solution based on a combined grey-fuzzy DEMATEL method to deal with the objective of the study. This study is aimed to present a perception approach to deal with real estate ...agent service quality expectation ranking with uncertainty. The ranking of best top five real estate agents might be a key strategic direction of other real estate agents prior to service quality expectation. The solving procedure is as follows: (i) the weights of criteria and alternatives are described in triangular fuzzy numbers; (ii) a grey possibility degree is used to result the ranking order for all alternatives; (iii) DEMATEL is used to resolve interdependency relationships among the criteria and (iv) an empirical example of real estate agent service quality ranking problem in customer expectation is used to resolve with this proposed method approach indicating that real estate agent R1 (CY real estate agent) is the best selection in terms of service quality in customer expectation.
This study contributes to the integration of a set of measures and a hybrid method for eco-innovation in industrial symbiosis. Firms achieve competitive advantages in business management through ...eco-innovation, and industrial symbiosis makes a major contribution to achieving win-win status in supply-chain networks. However, although many attributes have been addressed in previous studies, the role of eco-innovation remains unclear in the extended industrial symbiosis literature. This study attempts to identify the key eco-innovation attributes for enhancing industrial symbiosis performance. These attributes can serve as a reference for firms involved in promoting operational activities. This study collected information from the textile industry in Vietnam. Next, the fuzzy Delphi method was employed to filter the attributes with higher weights, factor analysis was used to compose the hierarchical structure, fuzzy importance-performance analysis was applied to identify the key attributes, and a supermatrix was converged into attribute weight ranking. The fuzzy Delphi method resulted in a set of criteria, the factor analysis resulted in four aspects (environmental sustainability, collaboration, regulation and perception, and waste-management synergies), and 18 attributes remained in the hierarchical structure. The results of the importance-performance analysis and the converged supermatrix weight ranking in the hierarchical structure are presented. The results show that the regulation and perception aspect and the waste-management synergies aspect have the highest weights. Moreover, firms should implement action plans that include stakeholder and community involvement, customer perceptions, shared waste transport, and joint external-agent waste management.
•This study contributes to the integration of a set of measures and proposed a hybrid method.•Fuzzy Delphi method, factor analysis, fuzzy importance-performance analysis and converged supermatrix are presented.•The regulation and perception aspect and the waste-management synergies aspect have the highest weights.
•This study aims to determine the antecedents and performances of adopting big data analytics among medium-sized enterprises.•Firms are lagging far behind in the usage of big data analytics.•Data ...were gathered from 171 manufacturing firms in Iran using partial least squares approach.•The finding confirms understating the drivers of big data analytics adoption in SMEs.
Big data analytics (BDA) adoption is a game-changer in the current industrial environment for precision decision-making and optimal performance. Nonetheless, the determinants or consequences of its adoption in small and medium enterprises remain unclear, hence the objective of this study. Data analysis of 171 Iranian small and medium manufacturing firms revealed that complexity, uncertainty and insecurity, trialability, observability, top management support, organizational readiness, and external support affect significantly on BDA adoption. The findings confirm the strong impact of BDA adoption in small to medium-sized enterprises, marketing and financial, performance enhancement. Understanding the drivers of BDA adoption helps managers to employ appropriate initiatives that are vital for effective implementation. The results enable BDA service providers to attract and diffuse BDA in small to medium-sized enterprises.
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