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A Conceptual Review Of Sustainable Development Goal 17: Picturing Politics, Proximity And Progress, Joanna Stanberry, Janis Bragan Balda Jun 2023

A Conceptual Review Of Sustainable Development Goal 17: Picturing Politics, Proximity And Progress, Joanna Stanberry, Janis Bragan Balda

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications and Presentations

We outline the discursive origins of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17, describing its ambiguous marching orders, which are further confused by shifting and contested stakeholder approaches. The widespread effect is to obscure the primary aim of making the tropics and other vulnerable countries more resilient, and also globally overcoming barriers to their development. We argue that ecological reflexivity, as developed and advanced by deliberative democracy and the Earth System Governance Project, belongs at the apex of those capacities needed for implementing the Agenda for Transformation. Ecological reflexivity conceptually grounds inclusive, open, critical, and consequential engagement of discourses situated …


Contextual And Organizational Factors In Sustainable Supply Chain Decision-Making: Grey Relational Analysis And Interpretative Structural Modeling, Zhaojun Yang, Xiaoting Guo, Jun Sun, Yali Zhang Jan 2021

Contextual And Organizational Factors In Sustainable Supply Chain Decision-Making: Grey Relational Analysis And Interpretative Structural Modeling, Zhaojun Yang, Xiaoting Guo, Jun Sun, Yali Zhang

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sustainable supply chain emerges as a major business trend essential to long-term competitive advantage. Relevant corporate decisions concern a broad range of factors and require novel analytical models for critical control. This study conducts mathematical analyses to identify the factors that are vital yet receiving insufficient attention from researchers and practitioners. Valid survey observations were collected from 113 enterprises in China, the biggest emerging economy that faces the dilemma between development and sustainability. Grey relational analysis (GRA) and interpretative structural modeling (ISM) assess the importance levels of contextual and organizational factors and explore their joint effects. Validated with conventional expert …


Organizational Learning And Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter?, Yali Zhang, Jun Sun, Zhaojun Yang, Shurong Li Oct 2018

Organizational Learning And Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter?, Yali Zhang, Jun Sun, Zhaojun Yang, Shurong Li

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Emerging economies face the challenge of striking a balance between development and the environment. To adapt to the changes, organizations must develop dynamic capabilities for green innovation and corporate sustainability. Based on a resource-based view integrated with contingency and stakeholder theories, this study examines how strategic contingency makes differences in the transformation between learning and performance resources through innovation efforts. Oriented toward external and internal stakeholders, respectively, learning resources comprise absorptive capacity and transformative capability, innovation efforts include green product innovation and green process innovation, and performance resources contain green image and competitive advantage. Depicting their mediating relationships moderated by …