78 research outputs found
Manufacturing in prospettiva: cultura, strumenti e pratiche della Sostenibilità Sociale come leve per il vantaggio competitivo
No full textProactive Environmental Strategies in Healthcare Organizations: Drivers and Barriers in Italy
No full textThis study sheds new light on why healthcare organisations are having difficulty responding to the growing pressure from stakeholders to proactively address their responsibility to deliver high-quality services without harming the environment. Basing our work on past research on stakeholder pressure and environmental barriers, we conceptualise and empirically test the effect of the interplay between stakeholder pressure and internal barriers on healthcare organisations’ adoption of proactive environmental strategies (PESs). To test the proposed hypotheses, a survey was carried out among medical directors of Italian healthcare organisations in 2012. Our results show that the lack of commitment to environmental issues within the organisation represents the main barrier to healthcare organisations’ implementing PESs. Furthermore, the difficulties in evaluating the impacts of advanced environmental practices negatively moderate the influence of stakeholders on developing PESs. Our findings contribute to extending previous knowledge on PESs in two ways: (i) focusing on the healthcare sector, our study investigates the phenomenon in a research context that has been largely overlooked in the sustainability literature; and (ii) cross-cutting previous research on stakeholder pressure and internal barriers, the study conceptualises and tests a more complete framework for understanding the adoption of PESs
Sustainability in Healthcare: Combining Organizational and Architectural Levers
No full textHealthcare has been progressively required to improve its environmental performance as have other industries in recent years. In this regard, many new healthcare facilities have been built worldwide adopting sustainability-oriented approaches. However, results have been limited from an ecological and economic perspective, and many projects have rapidly become failures and then been abandoned. A large part of these failures is grounded in the misalignment between the adoption of eco-friendly facilities and greening technologies and the persistence of outdated practices, mindsets and behaviours among healthcare professionals. This study aims at furthering the current debate among leading practitioners and scholars of engineering business management about the combination of organizational and architectural levers for improving the sustainability of healthcare delivery. By taking a socio-technical systems perspective, we developed a literature-grounded framework and relative propositions with respect to the improvement of sustainability-related performances in hospitals through the combination of organizational and architectural levers. Ten levers and their mutual relationships have been identified and described
Digital Assistance Systems to Implement Machine Learning in Manufacturing: A Systematic Review
No full textImplementing machine learning technologies in manufacturing environment relies heavily on human expertise in terms of domain and machine learning knowledge. Yet, the required machine learning knowledge is often not available in manufacturing companies. A possible solution to overcome this competence gap and let domain experts with limited machine learning programming skills build viable applications are digital assistance systems that support the implementation. At the present, there is no comprehensive overview over corresponding assistance systems. Thus, within this study a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA-P process was conducted. Twenty-nine papers were identified and analyzed in depth regarding machine learning use case, required resources and research outlook. Six key findings as well as requirements for future developments are derived from the investigation. As such, the existing assistance systems basically focus on technical aspects whereas the integration of the users as well as validation in industrial environments lack behind. Future assistance systems should put more emphasis on the users and integrate them both in development and validation
Sustainability in Healthcare: The (Un)Solved Quest for Aligning Organizational and Architectural Levers for Change
No full textBecoming Green! Pressures And Barriers For The Adoption Of Environmental Sustainability Strategies In Italian Hospitals
No full textEmbedding sustainability in healthcare practices: The challenge of engaging the different professional sub-cultures in a hospital
No full textThe Effect Of Human Resources Management Practices On The Adoption Of Environmental Management Programs In Hospitals. Evidence From Italy
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