Sustainable development of operations: Actors’ involvement in the process of energy efficiency improvements
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021

This study empirically investigates the involvement of actors in the process of energyefficiency improvements in operations to align strategic sustainability goals across and within operations. The study analyzes development efforts stemming from actors’ decisions and actions that contribute to the process of energy efficiency improvements using semi-structured interviews and secondary information. Data is analyzed using thematic coding. The study deepens the understanding of how firms undertake the transition towards integrating strategic goals for energy efficiency into operations by strategizing for energy efficiency improvements through actors’ involvement. By exploring actors at both strategic and operational levels, and their decisions and actions, the study includes examples of different approaches, namely, top-down vs. bottom-up and inside-out vs. outside-in, thereby conceptualizing the process of energy-efficiency improvements in terms of a framework that outlines the entities of this process. The study further provides an integrative framework for the development efforts by different actors and presents propositions for incorporating energy-efficiency improvements in daily strategic and operational decisions and actions instead of regarding it as a separate or an add-on process.

Sustainable development of operations

Operations strategy

Actors’ involvement

Energy-efficiency improvement

Författare

Naghmeh Taghavi Nejad Deilami

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Service Management and Logistics

Sustainability

20711050 (eISSN)

Vol. 13 11 6121

Ämneskategorier

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Miljöledning

Företagsekonomi

DOI

10.3390/su13116121

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