DEA Non-Radial Approach for Resource Allocation and Energy Usage to Enhance Corporate Sustainability in Japanese Manufacturing Industries
DEA Non-Radial Approach for Resource Allocation and Energy Usage to Enhance Corporate Sustainability in Japanese Manufacturing Industries
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DOI：
10.3390/en12091785
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发表时间：
2019-05
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
T. Sueyoshi;M. Goto
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作者：
T. Sueyoshi;M. Goto
本文讨论如何通过同时衡量运营和环境成就来提高企业的可持续性。在过去的几十年里，大多数公司都在不断努力提高其可持续发展水平。然而，它们仍有改善可持续性的战略空间。本研究提出一种新的使用环境测量的数据分析。我们将该方法应用于日本的工业部门，并获得五个启示。第一，它们在自然可处置性（优先事项：操作）下在资源分配和能源使用方面保持高水平的统一效率。第二，在管理一（优先：环境）的效率一般低于自然处置。第三，在经营业绩较高的行业中，只有医药产品行业的环保业绩较高。第四，纸浆和造纸工业以及纺织产品工业有潜力通过投资于绿色技术来提高效率。最后，理想的拥塞表明通过投资绿色技术可以改善性能。这些结果意味着，目前的商业状况与以前日本产业的形象不同，通常被称为“日本公司"，所有的公司过去都像一个单一的实体一样在政府的监管下运作。
This article discusses how to enhance corporate sustainability by simultaneously measuring operational and environment achievements. In past decades, most companies have made steady efforts to enhance their sustainability levels. However, they still have strategic space for improving sustainability. This research proposes a new use of environmental measurement by data envelopment analysis. We apply the approach to Japanese industrial sectors and obtain five implications. First, they maintain a high level of unified efficiency on resource allocation and energy usage under natural disposability (priority: operation). Second, the efficiency under managerial one (priority: environment) is generally lower than that of natural disposability. Third, among the industries with high operational achievement, only the pharmaceutical product industry presents high attainment on environmental protection. Fourth, the pulp and paper industry as well as the textile product industry have a potential for efficiency improvement by investing in green technology. Finally, desirable congestion indicates a potential of performance improvement by investing in green technology. Those results imply that the current business situation is different from the previous image on Japanese industries, often referred to as “Japan Inc.”, where all firms used to operate like a single entity under the governmental regulation.