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Gray Shades of Sustainability Issues in Organization Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3183

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Graduate School of Resources Management and Decision Science, Management College, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: sustainable management; sustainable production and consumption; project management; human resources management and organization behavior

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Master program of Financial Technology, School of Financial Technology, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: management; E-commerce; investment; financial technology; information technology use behavior; cultural content intangible assets evaluation and industry analysis

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Department of Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Interests: green management; organization behavior and human resource management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on gray shades of sustainability issues in organization management. Many studies have suggested that organizations should improve members’ positive attitudes towards the environment through various management activities, effectively enhance the performance of green product development, minimize the impact on the environment, meet consumer needs, improve the quality of life, and reduce waste and carbon emissions. As a result, green product management and organizational management can help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and will play an essential role in our society. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

(1) The gray shades of sustainability issues in the public or private domain.

(2) The sustainability assessment of environmental protection standards in organizational structure design, development, production, and employees.

(3) Ecological crises in organization management for governments, companies, and stakeholders.

(4) The development of financial technology and sustainable development.

(5) Corporate Social Responsibility in public or private domains.

This Special Issue offers an opportunity for researchers to publish high-quality interdisciplinary research that focuses on the “Gray Shades of Sustainability Management Issues”. We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit papers discussing the topics related to sustainability management issues by means of qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches. In addition, we look forward to receiving a variety of manuscripts which can contribute to the comprehensive improvement of organizations’ sustainability management.

Dr. Tai-Wei Chang
Dr. Yan-Bin Huang
Dr. Cheng-Ze Hung
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • green management
  • sustainability
  • corporate social responsibility
  • financial technology
  • ecological crisis
  • environment protection
  • corporate greenwash behavior
  • green confusion
  • green product information asymmetry

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How Does Sustainable Leadership Promote the Willingness to Adopt an Environmental Innovation Strategy? The Key Mediating Role of Environmental Value
by Ling Hu, Hung-Xin Li, Shih-Chin Lee, Yue-Shi Lee and Show-Jane Yen
Sustainability 2024, 16(7), 2988; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16072988 - 3 Apr 2024
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Sustainability has redefined corporate performance-oriented strategies, but research linking organizational leadership to sustainability strategies remains limited. Indeed, most past studies have employed the perspective of institutional pressure to explore why companies passively adopt environmental strategies. However, few studies have explored how to employ [...] Read more.
Sustainability has redefined corporate performance-oriented strategies, but research linking organizational leadership to sustainability strategies remains limited. Indeed, most past studies have employed the perspective of institutional pressure to explore why companies passively adopt environmental strategies. However, few studies have explored how to employ the internal management mechanisms of organizations to proactively promote companies to adopt environmental strategies. Therefore, the first purpose of this research is to explore how sustainable leadership promotes strategic adoption through environmental psychological ownership and environmental identity, based on the meaning management theory and upper echelons theory. The second purpose of this study is to address the new concepts of environmental psychological ownership and environmental identity through the social identity theory and psychological ownership theory. To validate the proposed model, this research collected responses from 101 chief executive officers and members of their senior management teams, and the results of the analysis supported all hypotheses. This research can not only provide academic literature with a cross-broad perspective on organizational leadership and sustainability but also provide an example for companies looking to implement sustainability strategies. Full article
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The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Financial Performance: The Mediating Role of Environmentally Proactive Strategy and the Moderating Role of Institutional Pressure
by Chien-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Wen Ting, Tai-Wei Chang, Yue-Shi Lee and Show-Jane Yen
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10449; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310449 - 3 Jul 2023
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For the sustainable development of agriculture, few investigations have explored how to achieve the sustainable development of agritech companies through management mechanisms. Therefore, this study proposes a novel model that describes the impact of the ethical leadership of the chief executive officer on [...] Read more.
For the sustainable development of agriculture, few investigations have explored how to achieve the sustainable development of agritech companies through management mechanisms. Therefore, this study proposes a novel model that describes the impact of the ethical leadership of the chief executive officer on financial performance through environmentally proactive strategy adoption, which is moderated by institutional pressures to deal with the problem of the literature gap. In fact, past research on financial performance has nearly always examined profitability or earnings per share, but few studies have explored the relationship between organizational leadership and environmentally proactive strategy adoption to improve firm performance. To fill this research gap mentioned above, this study employs the methodology of structural equation modeling to analyze the theoretical model. Empirical data were collected by 75 chief executive officers and their upper management teams in the agritech firms, and the analysis result confirmed all hypotheses. That said, the impact of the ethical leadership of the chief executive officer significantly influences the financial performance through the environmentally proactive strategy adoption, which is significantly moderated by institutional pressures Therefore, this study can provide a new milestone in the sustainable agricultural literature and provides agritech firms with specific recommendations for performance improvements to achieve sustainability. Full article
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