Sustainable Development of Operations: “How to make it happen?”
Paper i proceeding, 2017
Improving energy efficiency allows companies to further respond to the challenge of
sustainable development. However, practices herein vary, and the way by which companies
achieve positive results on energy efficiency need to be understood. In this study, multiple cases
are analyzed to investigate how organizations do work with sustainable development of
operations in terms of energy efficiency and what different initiatives they use to mobilize
actions regarding energy efficiency. It is concluded that a considerable part of improvement of
energy efficiency can be achieved through integrating efforts with already established
continuous improvement processes in the organization and through engaging people.
actionable knowledge
Sustainable development of operations
continuous improvement