Abstract
This paper aims to highlight how socio-economic growth and environmental strategy become more and more interdependent. Following this purpose, the paper showcases a medium-size Italian company, operative in Europe and Latin America that develops an innovative “dry constructions system”: the GreenService which aims to find new applications for the leftover gypsum. Today the percentage of recycled gypsum amount to 28%. Such an achievement is representative of the unique position this Italian company holds. According to the green economy model, a company’s decision process must look beyond the benefits procured by its own operation: strategies are being implemented due to the new market values that are dominating the scene. The implementation of an environmental strategy needs substantial investments and, most of the time confers an advantage, in the long-term. Alfa does not show economic advantages, even if it has implemented one of the best environmental practices in the recycling field.
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Greene M, Schill K, Takahashi S, Bateman-House A, Beauchamp T, Bok H. et al. 2005. Moral issues of human-nonhuman primate neural grafting. Science 309(5733): 385–386.
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Handfield R, Sroufe R, Walton S. 2005. Integrating Environmental Management and Supply Chain Strategies. Business Strategy and the Environment 14(1): 1-19.
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Mathews DJH, Sugarman J, Bok H, Blass DM, Coyle JT, Duggan P, et al. 2008. Cell-based interventions for neurologic conditions: Ethical challenges for early human trials. Neurology 22, 288–293.
Michalos AC, et al. 2015. Progress in Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Concerning Sustainable Development among Tenth Grade Students in Manitoba. Social Indicators Research 123(2): 303-336.
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Michalos AC, Creech H, Swayze N, Kahlke PM, Buckler C, Rempel K. 2012. Measuring knowledge, attitudes and behaviours concerning sustainable development among tenth grade students in Manitoba. Social Indicators Research 106(2): 213–238.
Mihara N, Kuchar D, Kojima Y, Matsuda H. 2007. Reductive decomposition of waste gypsum with SiO2, Al2O3, and Fe2O3 additives. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 9(1): 21-26.
Patten DM. 2002. The Relation between Environmental Performance and Environmental Disclosure: A Research Note. Accounting, Organizations & Society 27(8): 763–773.
Perrini F. 2006. SMEs and CSR Theory: Evidence and Implications from an Italian Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics 67(3): 305-316.
Pisano P, Cautel C, and Pironti M. 2014. Changing customer roles to innovate business models: an overview of design-intensive industries. Piccola Impresa/Small Business 2: 55-75.
Poff D. 2010. Ethical Leadership and Global Citizenship: Considerations for a Just and Sustainable Future. Journal of Business Ethics 93, 9-14.
Reinhardt FL. 1998. Environmental product differentiation: Implications for corporate strategy. California Management Review 40(4): 43-73.
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Sharma S, Vredenburg H. 1998. Proactive corporate environmental strategy and the development of competitively valuable organizational capabilities. Strategic Management Journal 19(8): 729–753.
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Stenis J, Hogland W. 2002. The Polluter-Pays Principle and its Environmental Consequences for Industrial Waste Management. Environment, Development and Sustainability 4(4): 361-369.
Suering S. 2008. Assessing the rigor of case study research in supply chain management. Supply chain management 13(2): 128-137.
Thomas DJ, Griffin PM. 1996. Coordinated supply chain management. European Journal of Operational Research 94(1): 1-15.
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). Plasterboard technical report: use of recycled plasterboard in unfired clay–gypsum blocks. Project code: PBD6-403, Banbury, Oxon, UK; 2007.
Williamson D, Lynch-Wood G, Ramsay J. 2006. Drivers of Environmental Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs and the Implications for CSR. Journal of Business Ethics 67(3): 317-330.
Willig JT. (Ed.). 1994. Environmental TQM. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. New York.
Yau Y. 2010. Domestic waste recycling, collective action and economic incentive: the case in Hong Kong. Waste Management 30(12): 2400-2447.
Yin RK. 1994. Case study research, design and methods, applied social Research Methods Series volume 5. Second edition, p 21.
Zelizer VA. 1978. Human values and the market: The case of life insurance and death in 19th-century America. American Journal of Sociology 84(3): 591–610.
Zelizer VA. 1979. Morals and markets: The development of life insurance in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press.
Zhu Q, Sarkis J, Geng Y. 2005. Green supply chain management in china: pressures, practices and performance. International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20(5): 449-468.
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