🌍 How do companies feel about their sustainability investments? 💭 Many organizations are investing in sustainability efforts, particularly in managing their carbon emissions. But do they believe these investments are worth it? Are they seeing meaningful outcomes, or do they have doubts about their impact? 🤔 🤔 🤔 WPI Business School Professor Joseph Sarkis and fellow research professors Qingyun Zhu, and Yanji Duan tackled these pressing questions in their latest research. 📚✨ Find out what they discovered by reading the full study at the link below! 👇 Congratulations and thank you Professors Sarkis, Zhu, and Duan on getting this important research out to the world! 🎉👏 #wpi #businessschool #wpimeansbusiness #sustainability #supplychain #supplychainmanagement #sustainablesupplychains #investment #financing #carbonemissions #carbonfootprint #carbonreduction 🌱📈
Financing and #investment for #sustainability is an important way to transition to sustainable supply chains and a sustainable society. Essentially, if companies are serious about this issue, they really do have to put money where their mouth is. Even with the best of intentions, financing sustainability efforts may not lead to real sustainability outcomes. Many times companies look the other way when observing these types of investments without outcomes, because they can say "at least we tried". Actual investment occurs, such as through offsets of carbon emissions. For many (internal and external stakeholders) it is not clear that these investments truly result in actual improvement. Scandals have arisen. We try to find out if managers tend to care about these issues. Does trust of such initiatives play a role? This situation is one important motivation behind our (Qingyun Zhu, Yanji Duan and myself) research paper on sustainable supply chain finance and blockchain usage. This study and its findings appear in the January 2025 issue of the Journal of Business Logistics. We investigate types of carbon reduction investment efforts and how managers feel about these investments. Specifically, we consider investments in carbon offsets or carbon insets and managerial utility of these options. We also consider levels of trust in these investments and in blockchain environments (amongst other issues). We do encounter some confirmatory findings based on theory. We also encounter some surprising findings. These latter findings have altered some of our own perspectives--they definitely call for more research. Maybe the findings here can provide insights for you as a researcher that you can build upon? Maybe the issues may raise awareness for companies and managers? https://lnkd.in/etabucaN If you are interested in reading the full article, then please see the following link, below (This link provides free, but not downloadable, access to the article. That is, it is readable only): https://lnkd.in/eSQXsY9y Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI Business School, San Diego State University, Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University, University of North Florida - Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida, Robert Glenn Richey, Jr. #offsetting #insetting #carbonemissions #supplychainmanagement #supplychain #finance #investment #supplychainfinance #choicemodel #utility #managerial #experimental #stakeholderengagement #stakeholders #signals #signallyingtheory #netzero #carbonreduction