Essays on sustainable performance management지속가능 성과관리에 관한 연구 : 환경적 측면을 중심으로

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Interest from stakeholders, such as employees, managers, governments, shareholders, and NGOs, in not only economic activities but also environmental and social practices has been growing because environmental regulations have become intensive and cases of unethical behavior have increased. In addition, a long-term recession and economic crisis, such as the Greece default or China market drop, increase stakeholders’ concerns regarding social and environmental issues. However, companies could not satisfy stakeholders’ environmental and social needs with existing performance management systems. Although some recently developed performance management systems such as the Sustainable Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) consider sustainable performance, many firms have difficulty applying the framework to their practice. Consequently, it is necessary to explain how to implement sustainable performance management systems depending on firm size or industry. Accordingly, this dissertation focuses on three parts of sustainable performance management: environmental management, green supply chain management, and sustainable energy management. Research on environmental management and green supply chain management considers firm-level environmental innovation and the role of social capital (e.g., communication capability and external green integration). On the other hand, study on energy management deals with country-level environmental efficiencies. This dissertation provides sustainable growth strategies based on management theories (e.g., natural resource based view, social capital theory, and stakeholder theory) and supports establishing policies related to sustainability. Chapter 2 uses the Korean Innovation Survey to focus on the role of complementary assets in increasing environmental performance in manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The economic impact of Korean SMEs is significant because they account for about 88% of total employees and 99% of total business. Recently, the environmental impact of SMEs also has been increasing. Thus, the government has to formulate environmental policies to support SMEs as they implement environmental innovation. The large market means SMEs also continuously conduct environmental activities to maintain their competitiveness. To confirm the argument, this essay examines the impact of environmental innovation on economic performance in SME manufacturers by using regression analysis. Subsequently, this study investigates the effect of complementary assets, which help firms overcome resource shortage and network deficiency by commercializing environmental innovation. The results show that SMEs increase their labor productivity through environmental innovation. Moreover, the results highlight that SMEs have higher labor productivity by using complementary assets obtained by affiliating business group and listing on public market. Next, Chapter 3 examines the impact of communication capability and external green integration as social capital between buyers and suppliers on the performance of green supply chain management in the construction industry. As environmental demands are diverse, an individual firm cannot handle the complex environmental issues by itself. In this sense, firms start to cooperate with supply chain members to deal with environmental activities. However, green supply chain management (GSCM) has not been implemented well owing to lack of interactive communication. Consequently, buyers do not recognize suppliers’ environmental capabilities and suppliers struggle to satisfy the needs of buyers regarding environmental capabilities. This phenomenon appears more frequently in the construction industry due to an intense hierarchical relationship between buyers and suppliers. Thus, this study empirically examines the role of communication capabilities of suppliers, external green integration, and alignment on performance of GSCM. We collected data from a survey of 103 construction suppliers in Korea and employed structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses. The findings from this study indicate that suppliers with higher information sharing capabilities 1) improve their environmental collaboration, 2) contribute to green cost reduction, and 3) gain a competitive advantage. In addition, the results show that green alignment―the degree of consistency in the buyers’ and suppliers’ evaluation of suppliers' environmental capabilities―had a positive influence on the suppliers' competitiveness. Following, Chapter 4 examines static and dynamic environmental efficiencies regarding renewable energy input and output among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for benchmarking sustainable energy management. In recent years, interest in improving environmental efficiency through renewable energy has been increasing in both academia and industry. In this sense, this essay conducts a comparative study to evaluate environmental efficiency considering renewable energy across OECD countries and to reveal how countries make up inefficient energy management. As a non-parametric methodology, data envelopment analysis is used to measure environmental efficiency through multiple inputs and outputs. To measure the dynamic environmental efficiency, the Malmquist productivity index is applied to estimate the average efficiency change from 2004 to 2011. The results demonstrate geographical differences in environmental efficiency depending on region. Whereas the OECD America have the highest average environmental efficiency, the OECD Europe have the largest number of efficient decision making units (DMUs) in static environmental efficiency. On the other hand, static environmental inefficiency was caused by inefficient production system despite the region. For dynamic environmental efficiency, this essay shows that the Malmquist productivity index is critically influenced by the global financial crisis triggered in the United States in 2008. Excluding this crisis period, most environmental efficiency in OECD countries has remained stagnant. They still have difficulty with improving environmental efficiency through development of renewable energy due to additional cost and vulnerable energy generation. To get over the difficulty, the OECD Europe implement a first-mover strategy and the OECD America conduct a catch-up strategy. In summary, this dissertation sheds light on the relationship between environmental, social, and economic activities and performance for sustainable development. From an academic point of view, this dissertation applies management and economic theories to research on sustainable performance management and investigates using empirical methodologies. In addition, this dissertation reveals the key performance indicators (i.e., environmental innovation, complementary assets, communication, external green integration, and environmental efficiency) to improve sustainable performance including social, environmental, economic performance. From a managerial and political point of view, this dissertation support policies or strategies 1) to develop of green or clean technology for future technology innovation, 2) to encourage minority groups (e.g. small- and medium-sized firms, suppliers, or emerging countries) to increase sustainable performance, and 3) to establish an eco-system with collaboration between large and SMEs.
Advisors
Chung, Yang Honresearcher정양헌researcher
Description
한국과학기술원 :기술경영학과,
Publisher
한국과학기술원
Issue Date
2016
Identifier
325007
Language
eng
Description

학위논문(박사) - 한국과학기술원 : 기술경영학과, 2016.2 ,[vii, 105 p. :]

Keywords

지속가능 성과관리; 환경 기술혁신; 보완적 자산; 소통역량; 녹색협력; 녹색 공급망 관리; 환경 효율성; 재생에너지; 맘퀴스트 생산성 지수; Sustainable Performance Management; Environmental Innovation; Complementary assets; Communication Capability; Environmental Collaboration; Green Supply Chain Management; Environmental Efficiency; Renewable Energy; Malmquist Productivity Index

URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/221099
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http://library.kaist.ac.kr/search/detail/view.do?bibCtrlNo=648102&flag=dissertation
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MG-Theses_Ph.D.(박사논문)
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