Mohammad Ali Shariat; Soleiman Iranzadeh; Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh
Abstract
The speed of competitiveness and organizational innovation, specifically with respect to corporate sustainability improving functions and environmental stress on manufacturing companies in predicting economic, social, and ecological advantages of their processes and products, significantly increased ...
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The speed of competitiveness and organizational innovation, specifically with respect to corporate sustainability improving functions and environmental stress on manufacturing companies in predicting economic, social, and ecological advantages of their processes and products, significantly increased in the recent decade. This condition faced all manufacturing companies across the world with a new challenge, making them try not only to maintain their current competitive status by developing and implementing sustainable production tools, but also to follow a sustainable progress that considers social, economic, and environmental matters at the same time. This study focused on business sustainability with a new perspective in industrial symbiosis, and tried to develop a sustainable production model through identifying different dimensions of sustainable production from managerial viewpoints of successful manufacturing companies in Semnan Province, Iran. To this end, managers of 33 successful companies across the province with at least five-year continuous work experience were interviewed, using the repertory grid technique. As a result, 33 single individual repertory grids and 175 initial individual constructs of sustainable production were fabricated. Finally, the sustainable collective grid of sustainable production, including 87 secondary constructs within 11 sections were drawn and analyzed through cluster analysis in SPSS. At the end, a sustainable production model with 11 pivots and 87 constructs within 4 sections, along with four production strategies (economic production, lean production, green production, and sustainable production) were proposed
Seyed hadi Mirghaderi; Akbar Alam Tabriz; Hassan Farsigani,; Farhad Farzad
Volume 13, Issue 38 , October 2015, , Pages 1-25
Abstract
Industrial clusters are one of the new approaches in industrial development of developing countries which has recently attracted the attention of many researchers and policy makers.Clustering has positive economic effects on the region and also increase the competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises ...
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Industrial clusters are one of the new approaches in industrial development of developing countries which has recently attracted the attention of many researchers and policy makers.Clustering has positive economic effects on the region and also increase the competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs).But success level of all clusters is not the same because their performances are different. The subject of clusters performance has various aspects and contains a wide range of result areas. This is due to cross-organizational nature and complexity of the internal functions and external effects of cluster as a comprehensive model of industrial cluster performance dimensions have not been presented so far.Precise definition of performance dimensions can reduce (part view) which is based on point of view to clusters and also study of cluster development proceedings with comprehensive approach can be applicable. This study aims to identify the performance dimensions of industrial clusters by classifying the performance measures of industrial clusters and present a model for comprehensive evaluation of industrial clusters performance. For data analysis the method used in this study is cluster analysis which integrated the Classifications of 31 experts used heuristic method and based on that, four performance dimensions of industrial clusters including financial, competitive, economic and environmental along with components and measures of each were extracted.
