How to serve sustainability performance in businesses? An appetizing recipe to link practices to performance in business sustainability research

Recent critiques claim that business sustainability scholarship offers little evidence on how to effectively address business unsustainability. In this article, we demonstrate why this problem exists. Specifically, we argue that the literatures on internal practices of business sustainability, and on the sustainability performance of businesses, do not speak to each other and that explanatory models also fail to bridge a corresponding gap in the field. We argue for the development of a subfield of sustainability performance in businesses and explain the types of inquiries that should be developed. Finally, we suggest how scholars in the business sustainability field could contribute to the development of better understanding of sustainability performance in businesses.     

一种面向柔性的流程建模工具SeAD模型

模块化设计的流程能够提高柔性,现有流程建模技术难以对柔性流程进行建模。文章首先分析了业务流程的范围柔性和响应柔性两个关键维度并给出定义,基于服务元素和流程协调的研究给出了这两个维度的量化计算方法,其次基于QFD和DSM设计出一种新的流程建模工具"服务元素-活动-依赖结构"矩阵(SeAD矩阵)。     

DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS TO FIT AND VALIDATE REGRESSION MODELS

A graphical procedure is proposed for selecting designs suitable for estimation and validation of linear regression models. The procedure is exemplified with polynomial regression involving one and two explanatory variables.     

业务流程的失效分析

业务流程不仅是一个技术一经济系统,还是一个具有社会性的复杂动态系统。在此基础上．在分析业务流程失效原因．包括业务流程的内、外部环境．业务流程的要素和业务流程的结构等方面。在流程变革之前进行流程失效分析是至关重要的,它可以防止单纯依靠的流程技术分析工具可能导致的纯技术模式缺陷．避免过度强调流程变革的方法论．     

How to innovate business models for a circular bio-economy?

Shifting from a linear to a circular bio-economy requires new business models. The objective was getting insights into the uncharted research field of business model innovation for a circular and sustainable bio-economy within the agrifood sector. Eight European cases valorising agricultural waste and by-products by closing loops or cascading were studied regarding their innovation drivers and elements, via interviews, on-site visits and secondary data. In this domain, the findings highlight that business model innovations are depending on the (i) macro-environmental institutional-legal conditions and market trends, (ii) driven by internal economic, environmental and/or social objectives, but especially strongly linked to (iii) other actors often from different sectors seeking synergies and (iv) value co-creation via combined organisational and technological innovations. Business models for a circular bio-economy thus depend on various action levels and need radical combined organisational and technological innovations for a most efficient usage of agricultural waste and by-products. This also means new business configurations instead of linear innovation strategies currently still being dominant due to economic viability.     

IT环境下理财系统业务流程的模型化与标准化

面对各具特色的理财模式,如何将其模型化与标准化.从业务范围、单据构成、流程模板、账表支持、使用步骤与初始余额6大方面研究商贸经典、商贸仓管、商贸商务、财贸一体和财贸专业5大理财模型的关键过程、实现步骤、内部控制与系统实施的关联性、差异性和递进关系,进而实现理财模型的标准化.     

How can firms access bank finance for circular business model innovation?

Access to bank finance has emerged as a key challenge for firms engaged in circular business model innovation (circular BMI), both in practice and in the academic literature. Through interviews, focus groups and archival documents, we document the experience of firms accessing finance for circular BMI and assess bank willingness to lend to firms that engage in circular BMI. Our findings offer potential strategies for firms who look for external (bank) finance to realise circular BMI. Using a case study-based theory-refining approach, we identify three core strategies that firms can use to obtain bank finance for circular BMI. First, firms can signal future cash flow expectations by aiming to secure customer contracts and preorders. Second, relationship building with banks, suppliers and customers improves the banks' risk perception of firms. Third, firms can design standardised, long-lasting circular assets that can serve as bank collateral, especially once secondary markets develop, overcoming the difficulty of lending based on innovative, firm-specific assets.