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Abstract
The adoption of sustainable practices is increasingly becoming important for organisations. Intuitively, such practices necessitate employee’s commitment to strategic goals related to the firm’s sustainable performance. However, research discussing employee commitment to organisational sustainability is mainly skewed towards large corporates, often neglecting the specifics of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Addressing this gap, the current study’s purpose is to examine the role of entrepreneurial orientation, organisational climate, and innovative workplace behaviour (IWB) on employee’s commitment to sustainability in the SMEs. The current study employs a comparative case-based approach using data collected from eight SMEs in the food processing industry in India. The study’s findings suggest that a firm’s entrepreneurial orientation and organisational climate are prerequisites for promoting and developing IWB among employees, which ultimately translates into their commitment to a firm’s sustainable performance. The research findings have implications for SME managers, operations managers, and business improvement specialists in the food processing industry.
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Arbind Samal
Roopendra Roopak is a Lecturer at Jindal Global Business School and a doctoral candidate at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. His works are published in premium journals like Computers & Industrial Engineering and he has presented at esteemed conferences, including ISMS Marketing Science and POMS International. Engineering. Before joining the doctoral program at IIM Kashipur, he worked, he has worked as a Marketing Associate, where he had the opportunity to work on projects with renowned clients, including Adobe, Oracle, Cisco, and Wolters Kluwer India.
Nitin Koshta
Dr. Nitin Koshta is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods and Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Amritsar, India. His research broadly focuses on sustainable and socially responsible operations.
Asit Tripathy
Dr. Arbind Samal has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur, India in the area of OB/HRM. Before the Ph.D., he has completed his MBA from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. A graduate in commerce (B.com) with a distinction class pass degree precedes the post-graduate qualification. Dr. Samal has extensive experience in the field of banking with over 8 years of managerial experience. He currently holds many prestigious certifications such as the JAIIB, CAIIB, NCDO, and AMFI. His primary research focuses on organisational change management and organisational sustainability in SME’s.
Roopendra Roopak
Dr. Asit Tripathy is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Jindal Global Business School, India. His primary research interest is designing supply chain and policy interventions that help solve real-world challenges with social and environmental impact. Asit’s current research interest includes Sustainable Operations Management, Circular Economy, and Platform Economy. His research papers have appeared in repute journals, including IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Computers and Industrial Engineering. Before joining the doctoral program at IIM Kashipur, he worked as an officer at CIPET, Under the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers, Govt. of India.
Sachin Kumar Mangla
Dr. Sachin Kumar Mangla is working in the field of Green and Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations; Industry 4.0; Circular Economy; Decision Making and Simulation. He has a teaching experience of more than five years in Supply Chain and Operations Management and Decision Making, and currently associated in teaching with various universities in UK, Turkey, India, China, France, etc. He is the director of Research Centre for ‘Digital Circular Economy for Sustainable Development Goals (DCE-SDG)’, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is committed to do and promote high quality research. He has published/presented several papers in repute UTD-24/FT50/ABS/ABDC ranked international/national journals (Production and Operations Management; Journal of Business Research; International Journal of Production Economics; International Journal of Production Research; Computers and Operations Research; Production Planning and Control; Business Strategy and the Environment; Annals of Operations Research; Transportation Research Part-D; Transportation Research Part-E; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews; Resource Conservation and Recycling; Information System Frontier) and conferences (POMS, SOMS, IIIE, CILT – LRN, MCDM, GLOGIFT). He has an h-index 71, i10-index 153, Google Scholar Citations of more than 15000. He is involved in several editorial positions and editing couple of Special issues as a Guest Editor in top tier journals. Currently, he is working as an Associate Editor at Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Logistics Management, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, and IMA Journal of Management Mathematics journals. He is also involved in several research projects on various issues and applications of Circular economy, Industry 4.0 and Sustainability. Among them, he contributed to the knowledge-based decision model in ‘Enhancing and implementing knowledge-based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)’, European Commission RISE scheme, €1.3M. Recently, he has also received a grant as a PI from British Council – Newton Fund Research Environment Links Turkey/UK – Circular and Industry 4.0 driven solutions for reducing food waste in supply chains. He is also working in several projects on Food Waste and Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 issues, sponsored by AICTE, ICSSR, Government of India. He received project funding for Food Waste Management in Circular Economy from the USERC, Government of India. He has also won the first prize for the prestigious Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Scholar Award 2021. He was ranked 404 in the world and 10 in United Kingdom and was recognised with 2022 Rising Star of Science Award by Research.com. He was also ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world by the Stanford University. Recently, he also been awarded as a High-End Foreign Expert Talent Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology, China. He is also the member of NWO - Dutch Research Council - Circular Economy Committee. He is also an active member of The Future Earth Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network (SSCP KAN).