Sustainable practices adopted in the management of food industry operations and their effect on the performance of its organisation
by Simone Sehnem; Susana Carla Farias Pereira
Latin American J. of Management for Sustainable Development (LAJMSD), Vol. 3, No. 3, 2017

Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse the strategies of operations, specifically sustainable and circular economy operations and their effect on the performance of organisations. The study sample included 304 enterprises in this industrial sector in southern Brazil. The results show that sustainable operations and performance are variables that move together in the same direction. Furthermore, regression analysis indicates that the model is useful in predicting the performance of organisations, as the p value of the F test is less than 0.05. However, operations strategy explains only 4% of performance variability. Other variables must be entered to improve the explanatory power of the analysis regarding the performance of the organisations surveyed. This finding is relevant because it shows that the sustainability investments do not always imply performance improvement. Furthermore, the performance of the company is not explained by political correctness, especially when the sample studied has a predominance of small and medium enterprises.

Online publication date: Thu, 21-Dec-2017

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