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作者：Plambeck, Erica L.; Toktay, L. Beril
作者单位：Stanford University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Human population growth and increasing consumption per capita are causing environmental impacts that threaten the survival and well-being of humans and other species on Earth. To sustain natural ecosystems and human populations with a high standard of living, humanity must now reinvent our systems for the production and delivery of goods and services to dramatically reduce the environmental impacts associated with consumption. The operations management community can contribute critical know-ho...
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作者：Plambeck, Erica L.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：A cleantech firm is one with an innovative technology and/or business model for serving an existing market with dramatically reduced environmental impact. This paper describes operations management (OM) challenges faced by five cleantech companies, and a few questions that these raise for OM and multidisciplinary research. It aims to fuel readers' motivation to identify and pursue others. The OM community has fundamental roles to play in the creation of an environmentally sustainable economy.
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作者：Girotra, Karan; Netessine, Serguei
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：A systematic approach to innovating business models can help identify new business models that encourage sustainable use of products and services, or facilitate wider adoption of new environmentally friendly technologies. This paper provides a brief summary of a conceptual framework that we have developed to systematize the study and identification of new business models. Our approach advocates that the key to identifying new business models is understanding the context of decision making in e...
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作者：Caro, Felipe; Corbett, Charles J.; Tan, Tarkan; Zuidwijk, Rob
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Eindhoven University of Technology; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Carbon footprinting is a tool for firms to determine the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their supply chain or with a unit of final product or service. Carbon footprinting typically aims to identify where best to invest in emission reduction efforts, and/or to determine the proportion of total emissions that an individual firm is accountable for, whether financially and/or operationally. A major and underrecognized challenge in determining the appropriate allocation stems ...
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作者：Jira, Chonnikarn (Fern); Toffel, Michael W.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Discl...
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作者：Muthulingam, Suresh; Corbett, Charles J.; Benartzi, Shlomo; Oppenheim, Bohdan
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Loyola Marymount University
摘要：In many manufacturing operations, profitable energy efficiency opportunities remain unexploited. Although previous studies have tried to explain the underinvestment, we focus on how the way in which a portfolio of opportunities is presented in a list affects adoption decisions. We use information on over 100,000 energy-saving recommendations made to more than 13,000 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms under the Industrial Assessment Centers program of the U.S. Department of Energy. We f...
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作者：Wang, Wenbin; Ferguson, Mark E.; Hu, Shanshan; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：With the recent focus on sustainability, firms making adjustments to their production or distribution capacity levels often have the option of investing in newer technologies with lower carbon footprints and/or energy consumption. These more sustainable technologies typically require a higher up-front investment but have lower operating (fuel or energy) costs. What complicates this decision is the fact that the projected dollar savings from the more sustainable technologies fluctuate considera...
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作者：Plambeck, Erica L.; Taylor, Terry A.
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：A common characteristic of basic material manufacturers (which account for 85% of all industrial energy use) and of cleantech manufacturers is that they are price takers in their input and output markets. Variability in those prices has implications for how much a manufacturer should invest in three fundamental types of process improvement. Input price variability reduces the value of improving input efficiency (output produced per unit input) but increases that of capacity efficiency (the rat...
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作者：Agrawal, Vishal V.; Uelkue, Sezer
作者单位：Georgetown University
摘要：Modular upgradability has been suggested as a strategy for improving environmental performance: as technology improves, it allows for independent replacement of improving subsystems, instead of replacing the entire product. This may extend the useful life of stable subsystems, reducing production and disposal impact. However, this argument ignores the effect of modular upgradability on a firm's development and introduction decisions and the environmental impact during the use phase. In this pa...
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作者：Demeester, Lieven; Qi, Mei; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We use a modified optimal market area model to examine how links between material recycling and other aspects of operations strategy can shape plant networks for the processing of recyclable materials. We characterize the complementarity of the recyclate ratio, defined as the maximum recycled content, with material versatility and miniscaling of recycling plants. We also observe that it is beneficial to coordinate investments in recycling-and production-related competencies because colocated r...
