Stefan Schrettle
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  • Publication
    Turning sustainability into action: Explaining firms' sustainability efforts and their impact on firm performance
    (Elsevier Science, 2013-02-27)
    Schrettle, Stefan
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    Hinz, Andreas
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    Scherrer-Rathje, Maike
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    Friedli, Thomas
    This research seeks to shed more light on how manufacturing firms adjust their strategy according to the sustainability challenge. Strategic decisions are influenced by strategic long-term considerations, which take into account aspects that lie within firms' boundaries and beyond. Therefore, the first step of this paper is to operationalise the sustainability challenge by identifying relevant drivers for sustainability that firms are exposed to. Second, we develop a framework showing which dimensions affect decisions concerning a sustainability move and which dimensions are affected by these decisions. A sustainability move can contain initiatives emphasising the adoption of new manufacturing technologies, the development of new, sustainable products or the integration of green practices into the supply chain. Next to the influence of sustainability drivers, we explain firms' decisions concerning a sustainability move with past performance, firm size and current level of sustainability action. Depending on whether initiatives are led by strategic or ad-hoc decisions, firms have to explore new knowledge and/or exploit existing knowledge to realise competitive advantage. The goal of this research is to provide an explanation of how decisions of sustainability moves are motivated and which dimensions in the firm are affected by these moves.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
    Volume: 147
    Issue: Part A
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.02.030
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/89597
    Scopus© Citations 280
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    The Impact Of Sustainability Drivers On A Firms' Strategic Decisions Regarding Manufacturing Technologies, New Product Development And Supplychain Initiatives
    (Fraunhofer Verlag, 2011-07-31)
    Schrettle, Stefan
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    Hinz, Andreas
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    Scherrer-Rathje, Maike
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    Friedli, Thomas
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    Spath, Dieter
    This research seeks to shed more light on the drivers of sustainability that firms are exposed to and their impact on management decisions. We have identified three essential paths of action how firms can react to the sustainability challenge. First, firms reassess their manufacturing technologies. Firms have to identify, evaluate and adopt greener technology options which focus on energy and material efficiency in manufacturing processes. Second, new, eco-friendly products are launched. Third, firms extend green practices from the plant out into the supply chain which is referred to as green supply chain practices (GSCP). In order to understand how manufacturing units are affected by the sustainability challenge, exogenous and endogenous factors are analyzed, which drive a firms' sustainability efforts. Exogenous factors include government regulation, norms and values in society as well as the market forces such as customers, competitors and suppliers. Endogenous factors include a firm's strategy, culture and resources at hand in order to deal with sustainability. Therefore, it is the goal of this work to guide firms' management decisions to address the sustainability challenge.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/93789
  • Publication
    Unlocking the potential of process innovation : A conceptual framework for the exploitation of advanced manufacturing technologies
    (EurOMA European Operations Management Association, 2010-06-06)
    Schrettle, Stefan
    This paper aims at providing a holistic understanding of the determinants that influence the realization of benefits of new manufacturing technologies. Based on findings from operations management and strategic decision-making literature, we propose a framework that explicitly distinguishes between the phase of decision-making and the phase of implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies. Based on a broad literature review, contingency factors are presented and related to each phase of the process model.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/96364