Corporate environmental responsibilities of organizations have become an eminent consideration among organizational managers and scholars in recent years. Environmental issues have gained much momentum that virtually every group of stakeholders is now demanding environmental efficiency from contemporary organizations. This study investigated environmental practices of two logistics companies in Sweden with the aim to shed light on the measures taken by these companies in response to the environmental impacts of their business activities. We investigated: How and why are logistics service providers in Sweden responding to the demand for environmental responsible business practice?   Based on a qualitative research design, a case study was conducted with DHL and PostNord AB. The results of the study show that the case companies perform environmental practices to reduce the carbon emissions of their business operations due to stakeholders demand. The findings identify stakeholders such as, customers, the Swedish government and shareholders/investors as those that exert the most pressure on the case companies regarding their environmental practices and initiatives.

Unchecked anthropogenic climate change has the potential to destroy human lives and wealth on an unprecedented scale. This dissertation analyzes from an economic perspective various public policy options to correct the market failures caused by climate change. The widespread adoption of environmentally friendly consumer products can reduce the impacts of climate change. The first chapter analyzes various methods of encouraging the market performance of these products. I build a model of observational learning in which a "green" consumer good enters a market to challenge an established "dirty" product. Among other results, I provide conditions for when financial incentives or informational campaigns should be more effective at encouraging the market performance of green products. I also provide a discussion and an empirical analysis of the performance of compact fluorescent light bulbs in the U.S. residential market, and compare the findings to the predictions of the theoretical model. The second chapter provides a critic of the macroeconomic models economists have used to determine optimal climate change abatement policies. I build a model that can incorporate more realistic ranges of uncertainty for both the occurrence of catastrophic events and societal risk aversion than economists have used in the past. Numerical simulations are then used to calculate a range of risk premiums, the magnitude of which display that previous calculations of optimal carbon dioxide taxes are too imprecise to support any particular policy recommendation. Government-backed energy-efficiency programs have become popular as components of local and national strategies to combat climate change. The effectiveness of such policies hinges on whether they provide the appropriate incentives to both energy consumers and program implementers. The third chapter analyzes evaluations of California's energy-efficiency programs to assess their effectiveness at improving our understanding of the programs' performance and providing a check on utility incentives to overstate energy savings. We find, among other results, that evaluations are useful tools to achieve both of these goals because the programs largely did not meet their energy-savings projections, and the utility savings estimates are systematically higher than the third-party savings estimates of the evaluations. / text

Submitted by PATRICIA JACOMINI FROIO null (pathfroio@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-17T19:04:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FROIO_PJ_Me_bauru_2017.pdf: 2760921 bytes, checksum: 55f71dfb834b98674dc798cf6acb1b5b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-08-23T17:55:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 froio_pj_me_bauru.pdf: 2760921 bytes, checksum: 55f71dfb834b98674dc798cf6acb1b5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-23T17:55:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 froio_pj_me_bauru.pdf: 2760921 bytes, checksum: 55f71dfb834b98674dc798cf6acb1b5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A busca pela sustentabilidade tem sido um tema debatido entre gestores e acadêmicos em todo o mundo. Atividades econômicas são geradoras de impactos ambientais resultante de suas operações, incluindo o setor das empresas de logística. Este tema tem atraído considerável atenção da comunidade científica internacional, entretanto, estudos sobre o tema no Brasil são incipientes. Nesta pesquisa foi realizada uma revisão estruturada da literatura que mapeou iniciativas verdes realizadas apenas por empresas Prestadoras de Serviços Logísticos (PSLs) e classificadas como internas e externas à organização em forma de um framework. Nesse contexto e de acordo com o estado-da-arte do campo de pesquisa apontado, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi de identificar iniciativas de sustentabilidade ambiental praticadas por algumas empresas PSLs brasileiras, e analisar a abrangência da realização das iniciativas. O método de pesquisa escolhido foi um estudo exploratório, com questionário semiestruturado, e coleta de dados do tipo survey. Com apoio do software NVivo10 foi possível entender as empresas estudadas, uma vez que facilitou as análises permitindo planejar e classificar informações oriundas de outras três questões abertas compostas no questionário, e pesquisar padrões nas respostas dos respondentes. Os resultados das análises indicam que as empresas respondentes têm realizado diversas ações a favor da sustentabilidade ambiental, entretanto algumas delas de forma pouco abrangente. A maior parte das iniciativas realizadas no contexto analisado são intraorganizacionais, quando comparada as interorganizacionais. / The pursuance for sustainability has been a topic debated among managers and academics around the world. Economic activities generate environmental impacts resulting from its operations, and also the logistics industry. This topic has attracted considerable attention from the international scientific community, however, studies on that issue in Brazil are incipient. The structured literature review mapped out green initiatives undertaken only by Logistics Service Providers (LSPs), and classified in the form of a framework as internal and external to the organization. In this context and according to the state-of-the-art of the research field pointed out, the aim of this research was to identify environmental sustainability initiatives practiced by some Brazilian LSP companies, and analyze the scope of the initiatives. The chosen research method was an exploratory study, with semi-structured questionnaire, and survey data collection. With the support of the NVivo10 software, it was possible to understand the companies studied, since it facilitated the analysis allowing to plan and classify information from three other open questions composed in the questionnaire, as well to search for patterns in respondents' answers. The results indicate that the surveyed companies have carried out several actions in favor of environmental sustainability, however some of them not with all potential. And most of the carried out initiatives are intraorganizational, when compared to the interorganizational ones. / CNPq: 134565/2015-0

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Структура магистерской диссертации включает введение, три главы, заключение, список литературы. В первой главе будет определено понятие устойчивого развития, формирование устойчивости и методы оценки эффективности улучшения устойчивого развития. Во второй главе будет представлена методология исследования с углубленным анализом собранных данных. В третьей главе будут исследованы проблемы и механизмы управления устойчивым развитием компании и рекомендации по стратегии устойчивого развития, а также будет оценена их эффективность. Диссертация завершится кратким изложением основных выводов и их последствий для устойчивого развития современных корпораций. / The structure of the master's thesis includes an introduction, three chapters, conclusion, list of references. The first chapter will define the concept of sustainable development, the formation of sustainability and the methods for evaluating the effectiveness of improving sustainable development. The second chapter will provide the research methodology with an in-depth analysis the collected data. In the third chapter, will explore the problems and mechanisms of the company's sustainable development management and recommendations for sustainable development strategy, and their effectiveness will be evaluated. The thesis will conclude with a summary of the key findings and their implications for the sustainable development of modern corporations.