Effective Green Strategy Research Articles

Design and preparation of a multi-responsive Cd-based fluorescent coordination polymer for smart sensing of nitrobenzene and ornidazole

The improper utilization of nitrobenzene (NB) and ornidazole (ORN) has resulted in irreversible effects on the environment. By combining experimental investigation, density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and machine learning, an effective green strategy for detecting NB and ORN in aqueous solutions can be developed. In this study, a one-dimensional Cd-based coordination polymer (Cd-HCIA-3) was designed and synthesized using 5-((4-carboxybenzyl)oxy)isophthalic acid and rigid 2,2′-bipyridine under solvothermal reaction conditions. Cd-HCIA-3 exhibits excellent fluorescence properties and stability in aqueous solutions. DFT calculations were performed to predict the fluorescence sensing performance of Cd-HCIA-3, revealing that photoinduced electron transfer is the key mechanism for inducing fluorescence quenching in the presence of NB and ORN, with weak molecular interactions promoting electron transfer. Fluorescence sensing experiments were conducted to verify the DFT results, showing that Cd-HCIA-3 can selectively detect NB and ORN in aqueous solutions with limits of detection of 7.22 × 10−8 and 1.31 × 10−7 mol/L, respectively. This study’s findings provide valuable insights into the design and synthesis of fluorescent coordination polymers for target analytes.

Fostering green customer citizenship behavioral intentions through green hotel practices: the roles of pride, moral elevation, and hotel star ratings

In the past decade, hotels have increasingly adopted green practices due to heightened customers’ environmental concerns and a commitment to fostering sustainability. While the literature on green hotel practices is abundant, understanding customers’ extra-role behaviors in response to these practices remains a complex and underexplored area. This study, based on social exchange theory, examines how perceptions of green hotel practices boost customer citizenship behavioral intentions (green CCBi). It further explores the mediating mechanisms of pride and moral elevation and the moderating mechanism of hotel star ratings in this association. The proposed hypotheses were tested utilizing a multi-method quantitative approach with data collected from hotel guests in Taiwan. Findings from the survey (N = 407) reveal that green practices have a positive and direct effect on green CCBi and have indirect effects through pride and moral elevation. Furthermore, the impacts of green hotel practices on green CCBi, pride, and moral elevation are stronger for higher-star-rated hotels. These findings are reinforced by the results of the two experiments (N = 492). The insights guide hotel managers and policymakers in crafting more effective green strategies to evoke customers’ positive emotions and voluntary behavior among customers.

GREEN STRATEGIES IN ACTION: ASSESSING ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT OF GREEN STRATEGIES

The purpose of this study, titled "green strategies in action," is to investigate the intricate relationship between green marketing, green leadership, and sustainability as mediator & greenwashing as a moderator in relationships to organizational performance. Thus, quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with corporate executives are used in conjunction with a mixed -methods approach in order to investigate the complex relationships that exist within environmental sustainability projects. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is to determine how green leadership and green marketing work together to have a synergistic effect on sustainability, which in turn has an effect on organizational performance. Moreover, research examines potential moderating influence of greenwashing, highlighting importance of real environmental commitment at the same time. The findings provide organizations with useful insights that can be used to navigate difficulties and possibilities allied with execution of effective green strategies. This helps organizations nurture holistic approach toward sustainable practices and organizational success.

A multilevel conceptual framework on green practices: Transforming policies into actionable leadership and employee behavior.

As organizations have recognized their cause/solution relationship with the environment, increasing attention is being given to the role of employees make in achieving green organizational objectives. Even though, business sustainability initiatives are often led by leaders; employee green behavior (EGB) plays a vital role in success of such initiatives. The current paper focuses on relatively less researched topic of EGB. It uses a narrative review approach to develop a multi-level conceptual framework that draws upon the connectivity of leadership influence at firm and team levels, and how this influences individual level EGB. The paper offers a holistic approach to influencing effective green strategies in organizational contexts. By doing so, it contributes to the larger debate on different dimensions, mechanisms, and levels of environmentally responsible behavior in organizational settings and opens up new avenues for multi-level and cross-layer empirical research.

A reflection of greenwashing practices in the hospitality industry: a scoping review

PurposeThis review aims to put forth a conceptual understanding of greenwashing. It also identifies the antecedents and consequences of customer perceptions of greenwashing in the hospitality industry in the recent context, which has remained superficial and fragmented in previous studies.Design/methodology/approachPublished literature between the years 2000 and 2022 was examined, following the scoping review approach. After screening out irrelevant and duplicate literature, a total of 54 published literature items were considered.FindingsDespite a profound understanding of customer perceptions of greenwashing, the findings show that the majority of customer perceptions of greenwashing are determined by the green efforts of hotel operators, through means such as green knowledge sharing, green marketing, the disclosure of green information, resource conservation claims and environmental certification. Additionally, customer perceptions of greenwashing determine a variety of customer green behaviors where customer green attitude plays an intervening role.Practical implicationsA benefit of the proposed conceptual model for hospitality stakeholders is that it aids in understanding customer suspicion regarding the legitimacy of hotel green practices. The conceptual model of this review, and a 2 × 3 matrix on hotel environmental performance and communication, provides a theoretical lens for scholars and practitioners in the hospitality industry to develop effective green strategies and practices, reducing customer perceptions of greenwashing while positively influencing customer green behavior. This review presents a launching platform from which research on greenwashing in the hospitality industry can skyrocket.Originality/valueIn previous studies, the conceptual understanding of greenwashing in hospitality has remained inconsistent, shallow and mixed. This review identifies the different and previously deeply underexplored antecedents and consequences of customer perceptions of greenwashing and presents them in a conceptual model.

Pinus radiata bark sequentially processed using scCO2 and an ionic liquid catalyst yields plentiful resin acids and alkanoic acids enriched suberin

The bark of Pinus radiata is an under-utilized forest residue that is renewable, abundant and has the potential to become a source of sustainable high-value chemicals. However, the use of this bark within a biorefinery for advanced applications is hindered by its intractable characteristics: high integrity, complex composition, and high heterogeneity. Most of the bark is burnt to provide energy and heat. The bark contains a high portion of phenolic extractives, constituting a potential source of valuable compounds. It also contains the heteropolymer suberin, a source of unique building blocks for developing innovative materials with potential broad bactericidal properties. Removal of phenolic extractives and suberin from bark simplifies down-streaming pulping processing of bark’s lignocellulosic part. Herein, we describe an effective green strategy to sequentially extract the lipophilic bark constituents and suberin, exploring scCO2 (40, 50 or 60 °C / 200, 350 or 500 bar) and a biocompatible ionic liquid catalyst. The obtained scCO2 extracts had similar diversity of lipophilic compounds and predominantly contained resin acids. Further extraction of the scCO2 extracted bark yielded suberin amounts of 2.25% wt. The bark’s suberin structure shows archetypal chemical features yet has an idiosyncratic high abundance of alkanoic acids, which is not common in most sources. The findings of this opening bark biorefinery study deserve further development and complementary techno-economic analyses to secure new value chains for the bark's major lipophilic compounds consisting of resin acids and bark suberin.

Designing a digitalized cell for remanufacturing of automotive frames

Circular economy introduction in industry is globally recognized as one of the most effective green strategies towards sustainability and resources reduction. As the automotive sector has been historically one of the biggest energy consumers, significant efforts are being constantly made to reduce the environmental impact and to increase energy efficiency at the manufacturing stage, both at production and process level. This study focuses on proposing a framework for automotive defective parts identification and remanufacturing in the main production line. In particular, the concept of an automotive microfactory is taken into consideration. To achieve this, a vision-based monitoring system performing the defect identification drives the whole procedure that is considered to be realized through a remanufacturing cell. The software tool is considered to be utilized right before the scheduling process of orders and tasks performed in the remanufacturing cell, taking into account specific performance parameters. The architecture of the software is presented along with some discussion regarding the types of control that can be enforced at both processing and line level, while the use of synthetic data is regarded to test the efficiency of the monitoring system.

Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?

AbstractThe race to gain competitive advantage through the formulation of a sustainable business strategy is key for the survival in the global business sphere. Even more importantly is the quest to deploy an effective green strategy to combat the numerous negative impact industrialization has on the environment. Researches pointed out the role of leaders and stakeholder's engagement in bringing about reform. This research focuses on how to build a robust psychological capital within an organization through the leader's transformative ability in combating environmental issues. This is necessary because research related to green transformational leadership and the effect on green team resilience has not been considered in literature. Drawing from the combination of three theories; broaden‐and‐build theory, job demand–resource theory, and conservation of resource theory, this study contributes to the extant literature by testing the effect of green transformational leadership via the mediating role of green work engagement to green team resilience. Using Amos 20 version to analyze 351 questionnaires that were collected from employees in four and five star hotels in Turkey, the result reviews that green transformational leadership has a positive effect on green work engagement and green team resilience, and green work engagement fully mediates the relationship between the variables. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Eco-Process Innovation Performance: Production Waste Investigation through Discrete Event Simulation

Eco-process innovation has been recognised as an effective green strategy for altering manufacturing processes so as to improve a firm’s environmental performance. As many recent eco-innovation studies focusing on perceptual approach of investigating the performance indicators, new study opportunity knocked the door for new knowledge disclosure of operational approach, since it has been largely ignored. This paper aims to assess production waste improvement brought by eco-process innovation implementation in a manufacturing facility. For this purpose, the discrete event simulation approach has been applied to model and simulate the waste rate of previous state and current state of an eco-innovatively improved production line, using the real operational data. Comparison between both states of production system demonstrated a reduction of 0.14% and 0.02% in waste rate at visual mechanical inspection and final test inspection points consecutively, hence confirmed that eco-process innovation practice enabled the improvement of the environmental performance of manufacturing firm. The study is a small part of a larger research work of which the authors are developing indicators for measuring eco-process innovation performance at the firm level.

Alternate Energy Sources for Sustainable Organic Synthesis

AbstractOrganic Chemistry plays an important role in energy, information, materials, population, health, environment and implementation of defence plan. Organic chemists therefore, have the greatest responsibility to devise methods of carrying out organic syntheses, which will reduce or even eliminate the by‐products and solve the problem of environmental pollution from the source. One of the methods to achieve this is using non‐conventional energy sources, such as microwave, ultrasound, and photochemical chemistry, in conjugation with non‐toxic solvents, which dramatically reduces energy waste and reaction time. Experiments synergising these alternate energy sources like microwave sonication, photosonication or microwave photochemistry, have gained high popularity as cost‐ effective green strategies. Pooling the advantages of alternate energy sources with biocatalysis is another novel avenue of sustainable synthesis. Organic electrosynthesis has also emerged as an environmentally benign technique for the construction of C‐C and C‐hetero bonds. Highlights of significant developments in these areas define the scope of the present discussion.

Bacterial biofilm or biofouling networks with numerous resilience factors from real water supplies of Chennai and their enhanced susceptibility to biocompatible nanoparticles

In the present investigation, enhanced susceptibility of bacterial biofilm networks associated with water repositories of Chennai to silver and silica nanoparticles has been proposed. A total of 120 water samples were collected amid four seasons according to the standard methods and the collected samples were investigated for heterotrophic microorganisms, fecal coliforms and biofilm or biofouling. Bacterial strains segregated from the separate lake were assessed for biofilm or biofouling forming efficacy and their resilience to substantial metal, salt, various antibiotics. Dominant part of the bacterial strains confined from the respective reservoir showed biofilm development and high rate of biofilm framing adequacy was seen in Poondi Lake. E.coli (30–40%),Proteus sp (20–25%), Salmonella sp (10–20%) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (5–10%) and Lactobacillus (5%) sp were the major bacterial strains associated with biofilm of all the tested reservoirs. Bacterial strains related with biofilm of particular tried supplies demonstrated high resilience to heavy metal, salt and various antibiotics. High rate of multiple drug resistance was recorded in Poondi lake isolates (90%) followed by Porur (85%) and Chembarambakkam (81%).Vulnerability of the biofilm networks to nanoparticles like silver and silica was studied. Silver nanoparticles were orchestrated from leaf extrcat of Vitex negundo and silica from block powder separately which yield high stable, monodispersed particles.Both the nanoparticles realized viable restraint of the biofilm as concentration dependent manner. Be that as it may, noteworthy impact was recorded in silver nanoparticles treatment. Nanoparticles susceptibility testing against E.coli- Predominant member (65%) of the biofilm of all the reservior suggest that silver nanoparticles brought about distinct effect on biofilm networks which exhibited 99.0% of biofilm inhibition and improved spillage of protein, nucleic acid content.The study will give awareness about the sanitation and safety of water in the respective reservoirs and the enhanced susceptibility of the biofouling to the nanoparticles would suggest the possible utilization of nanotechnology principles as an effective green strategy in water treatment process

Green purchase behavior: mitigating barriers in developing countries

PurposeThis paper aims to identify the key barriers preventing the consumer purchase of eco-friendly products in developing countries and later suggests intervention strategies to mitigate such barriers.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents the authors’ viewpoint on strategies aimed at promoting green purchases.FindingsKey barriers to purchasing green products include their high price, scarce product availability, low level of credibility of eco-labels, and inadequate information. Mitigating these obstacles requires effective government leadership, social initiatives, and marketing strategies, some of which are discussed in this paper.Originality/valueThis paper would be of interest to key stakeholders including policymakers, marketers, and social-environmental organizations in the development of more effective green strategies.

Managing European Cross Border Cooperation Projects on Sustainability: A Focus on MESP Project

International cooperation is a must to achieve the goal of sustainable development, since only through cross border actions’ complex issues like environmental degradation can be faced. Supranational initiatives and shared objectives are the only path for getting a durable and effective green strategy, which transcends boundaries or governments and fosters a common effort for sustainability through networking. The European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) aims at reinforcing cooperation between the European Union (EU) and partner countries’ regions placed along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. To this extent, MESP (Managing the Environmental Sustainability of Ports for a durable development) can be considered as a typical cross border cooperation project, willing to create a sustainable environmental management of port in northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean basin. This has been achieved through the development of specific guidelines towards environmental sustainability and the collection of common tools, methodologies, good practices and innovations focused on pollution reduction that can be replicated in Mediterranean ports and further. This was possible through the creation of a strong cooperation network and long-lasting collaborations among partners and stakeholders such as harbour cities, port authorities, universities, research centres and scientific skills.

Environmental management: the role of supply chain capabilities in the auto sector

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific role of supply chain capabilities (SCCs) in the implementation of particular green strategies and the extent to which this relationship is contingent upon firm size.Design/methodology/approach– A survey-based approach was used to empirically test the study hypotheses. Data that were collected from 225 senior logistics/supply chain managers across the automotive OEM and supplier base (predominantly from China, North America and Europe) were analyzed using moderated regression analyses.Findings– SCCs contribute to effective green strategy implementation and their magnitude varies significantly with respect to green design, green purchasing and green manufacturing. Firm size has positive moderating effects on supply chain flexibility in both green design and green purchasing, and on supplier appraisal capability in both green purchasing and green manufacturing. However, unexpectedly, firm size negatively moderates not only supply chain management (SCM) skills/knowledge in both green design and green purchasing but also IT/IS support in green manufacturing.Research limitations/implications– This paper adopted a cross-sectional survey design and was only conducted in the automotive industry which may affect the inferences of causality and generalizability beyond this sector.Practical implications– Managers should consider whether the green strategies that they want to follow “fit” with their existing resources/capabilities and firm-level conditions, and accordingly develop and deploy appropriate SSCs for successful implementation.Originality/value– The research contributes to the existing resource-based view literature by studying the capability–strategy link with its specific application to environmental management.