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The Sustainability Hub at EADA promotes research projects in sustainability, led by an academic team with expertise in the field. Our research is carried out in Strategy, Leadership, Marketing and Supply Chain.

The team subsequently designs dissemination materials such as academic articles, and transfers their main conclusions and learning to EADA programmes, through didactic material, case studies, etc.

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Research projects in sustainability

Original title
How do collaborative culture and capability improve sustainability?
This study emphasizes the need to build partnering capabilities and improve sustainability in the supply chain by coping with the fast-changing business environment. Results show that collaboration and commitment play a crucial role in building capabilities, which, in turn, allow firms to achieve sustainable supply chain performance. Collaboration, representing resource sharing and collaborative culture, influences sustainability directly and is mediated by capabilities and commitment. For effective capabilities and sustainability, both upstream and downstream collaboration are required.
Project Category
Sustainable transformation
Original title
Income and Individual values as predictors of pro environmental behavior
In this paper we examined data from ESS to test the moderating effects of values on the relationship between income and pro-environmental behaviours' such as curtailing energy expenses and buying efficiently. Results show that Income is related to pro-environmental behaviors only for individuals with a certain set of values
Project Category
Consumer ethics
Desirée Knoppen
Aline D. Masuda
Original title
Leaders4Good
Analyses the capabilities of more than 400 managers (senior and middle management) in Spain in relation to sustainability, as well as their motivation around social and environmental issues and sustainable behaviours as managers within their organisation.
Project Category
CSR
Davide Luzzini
Federica Massa Saluzzo
Ferran Velasco Moreno
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Original title
Occupational Health in Construction Industry
In health and safety at work two main groups of causes of occupational accidents have been identified: unsafe conditions or technical factors and the causes related to safe behavior or the human factor. The objective of this study is to analyze the predictive variables (Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Impulsivity and Safety of the work environment) for three factors of the CONS-32 scale (criterion variables: Use of protections, Personal risk behavior and Personal physical workload) in the construction sector. Using a sample of 256 Spanish workers from this sector, we analyzed the significant correlations between the three criterion variables and a set of variables extracted from various instruments, as well as the regression models that explain most of the variance. The results show that the main predictive variables that explain the three factors are those related to responsibility as a personality trait, impulsivity, and safety of the work environment. Based on the empirical evidence found, the most explanatory factor in all cases is the safety climate in the work environment.
Project Category
Sustainable transformation
Jordi Assens Serra
Original title
Purchasing realized absorptive capacity as the gateway to sustainable supply chain management
Companies’ ability to build sustainable supply chains and achieve strategic sustainability objectives largely depend on their supply network characteristics and the nature of the relationships with strategic suppliers. This poses the question of how purchasing departments can help to translate this sustainability commitment into performance benefits. We focus the attention on buyer-supplier information sharing practices, and study how the availability of information interplays with the realized absorptive capacity of the purchasing department (PRAC) to positively impact performance (operational, environmental and social).
Project Category
Consumer ethics
Original title
Redesigning Consumption for the Kindness Economy
While sustainability and circular economy practices focus on limiting harm to our planet, responsible experience design has potential to actively change consumer behaviours to support this shift. In this action project, teams undergo an intervention of designing for the kindness economy, with specific imperatives and values adapted to each brief and organisation.
Project Category
Sustainable transformation
Julia Wolny
Original title
Social entrepreneurs and systemic change
This research project was born in collaboration with Ashoka Spain to understand what is systemic change and how social enterprises generate it. Through multiple case studies in India and Brazil, we explored the characteristics of systemic change and the mechanisms adopted by social entrepreneurs to achieve it. This project generated a series of ramifications, such as public seminars and a special issue in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.
Project Category
Innovation and systemic change
Davide Luzzini
Federica Massa Saluzzo
Original title
Social impact supply chains
Supply chain research and practice has moved beyond green or environmental issues to include social issues. But much of the focus still remains on attempts of large companies to reduce social harm along their supply chains rather than creating social good. At the same time, research investigating the role of NGOs in supply chains or humanitarian logistics often emphasizes temporary initiatives and overlooks long-term viability. This stream of research seeks to expand the playing field by looking at how social enterprises manage their supply chains to generate social benefit while maintaining or improving their financial viability in the long term. Our contribution is to consider those socially motivated organizations that lie on the continuum between purely social and purely commercial enterprises. We consider how these organizations manage their supply chains for social impact and define this area as social impact supply chain management (SISCM).
Project Category
Innovation and systemic change
Davide Luzzini
Original title
Supply chain management in the Global South
This research line is comprised by several projects with DBA students from Maastricht School of Management. Projects focus on health supply chains in Uganda, and analog rice (a locally produced functional staple food) supply chains in Indonesia.
Project Category
Innovation and systemic change
Desirée Knoppen
Original title
Supply Chain Transparency
In today's supply chains, focal firms face dramatic challenges in gathering material information about their extended supply chains. Academic research begins to point to the role of supply chain structure in influencing supply chain transparency. Still, large‐scale empirical evidence on this complex association remains elusive, especially at the supply chain level of analysis. We intend to bridge this gap by examining how supply chain structure systematically associates to supply chain transparency in the context of the collective public environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures made by a focal firm's customers, suppliers, and subsuppliers.
Project Category
Innovation and systemic change
Davide Luzzini

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