Management Research Review: Volume 36 Issue 12

Convergence of boundary judgments and innovative regional development concepts

Hans Bressers, Cheryl de Boer

Sustainable regional development is often accompanied by the introduction and gradual implementation of innovative concepts, like, e.g. “integrated natural resources management”…

Interactions management in environmental policy

Yoram Krozer, María-Laura Franco-García, David Micallef

– The paper aims to address regulator-management interactions in environmental policy with reference to direct regulations, social regulations and market-based regulation.

Joint environmental policy making and sustainable practices for the cardboard production: Case study: Smurfit Kappa

Jorge Carlos Carpio-Aguilar, María-Laura Franco-García

This paper presents an analysis of the influence of “Joint Environmental Policy-making” (JEP) in the operation of the company Smurfit Kappa (SK) in The Netherlands, Austria and…

Water resource co-management and sustainable regional development

Cheryl de Boer, Hans Bressers

Given the importance of multi-stakeholder processes in managing water resources, this paper aims to shed light on various project management strategies being used in The…

Sustainability and competitiveness in Mexico

Dennis J. Aigner, Antonio Lloret

– This paper summarizes the findings of a research project aimed at benchmarking the environmental sustainability practices of the top 500 Mexican companies.

Analysis of indicators to evaluate the industrial parks contribution to sustainable development: Mexican case

Edgardo Bastida-Ruiz, María-Laura Franco-García, Isabel Kreiner

The paper suggested a sustainability indicators framework for industrial parks in contexts where information is weakly reliable or insufficient. The authors tried to cover those…

Financial assessment of a biodiesel value chain: case study of Chiapas, Mexico

Luz del Carmen Díaz-Peña, Anselmo Salvador Chavez-Capo, Miguel Angel Tinoco-Castrejón, Genoveva Rosano-Ortega, Beatriz Pérez-Armendariz

– This paper aims to assess the biodiesel value chain produced by the State of Chiapas and, through a financial model, determines its profitability and feasibility as a business.

Private-public strategies for sustainable regional development (3rd Greening of Industry Network Conference in Mexico City)

María-Laura Franco-García, Juan-Luis Sherwell and Aard Groen