Business management model, key to reach a sustainable innovation

The awarded analysis research with the José Manuel Blecua Prize focuses on how firms innovate to succeed in a significant sustainability, understood as a aggressive benefit within the present market. Particularly, it exhibits that placing in apply the cleanest applied sciences is simpler in these firms with built-in administration techniques, that’s, those who mix the wants from totally different curiosity teams: from clients’ pursuits to the employees’ and the group’s by which the corporate relies.

Alfonso Hernández carried out a survey to forty firms in Europe and Latin America –all of them within the candle manufacturing sector– to check the connection between sustainability and an built-in administration system (IMS). Hernández notes that “firms with a better stage of integration have as much as 50% of upper possibilities to implement clear applied sciences efficiently”. The research confirmed that firms with IMS innovate processes extra effectively, utilizing much less sources, whereas in addition they handle the wants of the corporate’s collaborators.

Doctoral research and firm work

Alfonso Hernández says that there’s nonetheless rather a lot to do and uncover within the work strains of the awarded research: “There are lots of open questions to check concerning innovation, sustainability, and contours and ideas similar to open innovation, internationalization and gender equality”. These analysis research are, in response to the researcher, promising concerning enterprise administration: “Broadening data on administration techniques integration can information us in decision-taking and ease the best way in direction of enterprise sustainability”, he states.

Really, Hernández applies the obtained data throughout his doctoral thesis, supervised by Mercè Bernardo and Claudio Cruz-Cázares, in his present place as director of provide chain in an organization that makes candles: “The research I carried out enabled me to grasp the significance of the combination of administration techniques in apply. Throughout this pandemic I’ve seen how an organization that tries to succeed in the a number of targets of some teams of curiosity can maintain itself, and even develop, due to its give attention to high quality, innovation, take care of the setting and the collaborators’ wellbeing”. In February, Hernández will proceed to do analysis on this line whereas educating on the School of Economics and Enterprise on the UB.

Article reference: Alfonso Hernández-Vivanco, Mercè Bernardo, Claudio Cruz-Cazares. “Sustainable innovation through management systems Integration”, Journal of Cleaner Manufacturing, February 2018. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.052