Sustainable Business Models: Principles, Promise and Practice

Turkey as an emerging marketEmerging market is a member of G20 and in accordance with the rapid economic growth, Turkey is facing with pressing energy and environmental problems including air pollution, water quality, food quality, land and forest degradation. When these problems are accompanied with the recent wave of immigrants from Syria and Iraq, Turkey needs sustainable business models more than ever. In recent years, Turkey has taken important steps about sustainability practices. Among them, BIST Sustainability Index, the first such index in Turkey, was launched in 2014. The index aims to encourage Turkish companies and investors to give careful consideration to the environmental, social and governanceGovernance (ESG) issues for sustainable wealth creation. The sustainability index is an important tool to improve ESG disclosure, sustainability reportingSustainability reporting and reputationReputation. More importantly, the index plays a crucial role to provide access to international investors and promote more responsible investment. The purposePurpose of this chapter is to investigate sustainable business models of the leading sustainability-driven companies that take place in the BIST Sustainability Index. In this context, we are particularly interested in exploring the relationship between the index and the sustainable business models of the companies listed in the index. A review of the BIST Sustainability Index can help us to understand how Turkish companies with different backgrounds adopt sustainable business models in such a way that enable them to capture economic value through delivering social and environmental benefits. A further discussionSustainability Sustainable business Values Business models on sustainable business models can provide support that enables Turkish companies to focus on resource efficiency, environmental issues, tightening regulations and shifting social pressure.</p

A Meta-Analysis on Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Export Context

Purpose - Building on the lack of adequate attention devoted to encapsulating the research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in the exportcontext, the main objective of this study is to quantitatively aggregate the empirical evidence as to the effect of export EO on its consequences. Inaddition, this meta-analytic study aims at exploring the act of possible contextual and measurement moderators in the proposed conceptualframework.Design/methodology/approach - Drawing on a meta-analytic approach, prior empirical results were synthesized by 71 effects gathered from5,815 firms.Findings - The meta-analytic findings spotlight that export EO exerts the biggest influence on new product performance, and the magnitude of therelationship between export EO and its consequences is dependent upon cultural context, country’s economic development level, industry type andmeasurement treatment.Originality/value - This meta-analysis is expected to provide fresh insights into the export EO literature by compiling previous empirical evidenceon the export EO phenomenon, which has remained relatively untouched.</p

How environmental innovation influences firm performance: A meta-analytic review

Coupled with the increasing concern toward sustainability and sustainable development issues, environmental innovation practices have been of burgeoning interest among both scholars and practitioners. Building on this, the main purpose of this study is to quantitatively aggregate the extant empirical research on eco-innovation and firm performance and to assess the role of moderating factors in this theoretical relationship by pursuing a meta-analytic approach. To serve this objective, 196 effects based upon 70 studies including more than 25,000 firms (N = 25,412) were meta-analytically examined. Quantitative evidence drawn from the meta-analysis indicates that organizational eco-innovation exerts the strongest influence on firm performance. Moreover, the meta-analytic findings suggest that significant variations in the correlation between eco-innovation and firm performance exist across different performance types, and the magnitude of the eco-innovation-firm performance association is stronger in developing compared with developed countries. This meta-analytic review is expected to considerably contribute to the pertinent literature by means of improving the understanding of the relevance of eco-innovation typology to firm performance

Social Innovation Adoption Behavior: The Case of Zumbara

Most of the studies investigating innovation adoption behavior focus on technological products and services. Considering the significant gap in the conceptualization and operationalization of social innovation adoption behavior in the literature, the aim of this study is to provide an insight to the adoption behavior of social innovations. The effects of perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use and need for approval are investigated within the context of time bank activities in Turkey. The result of the analysis supported the significant effect of all independent variables with a higher impact of perceived enjoyment