Hierarchies and priorities in regional energy-environmental planning

This article is devoted to an analysis of hierarchies and priorities in energy-environmental policy making. The approach to dealing with conflicting issues in regional energy-environmental planning centers around selection of activities, according to a set of derived priorities subject to constraints reflecting interdependence of these activities. After an exposition of the prioritization problem, a method of accounting for the interdependence of activities is discussed.     

Can quality circles survive in the United States?

The context in which quality circles operate is an important to their long-term viability as is their internal structure. These contextual contingency variables—participants' attitudes, work setting, organizational culture, and the environment—represent factors that lie at the heart of the QC's ability to be integrated into Amerian organizational structures.     

Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance

This study relies on a unique synthesis of ambidexterity theory and the natural resource orchestration approach to investigate how green intellectual capital elements, namely green human, structural, and relational capital, along with ambidextrous green innovation, trigger a synergy in favor of environmental performance. In particular, this paper primarily aims to test the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation in the relationship between green intellectual capital and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results indicate that green intellectual capital elements are not directly associated with environmental performance. Instead, they influence environmental performance only through the channel of ambidextrous green innovation as a mediating variable. This is the first study to simultaneously embed the resource orchestration theory in the green intellectual capital and ambidexterity literature. The findings of the current study offer new insights into the issue of how organizations gain maximum benefit from the orchestration of their various green assets and capabilities, including green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation.