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Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability
The careful management of sustainability issues is increasingly being demanded by construction clients and others within the construction supply chain. Certification to sustainability standards is widely recognised as a means of demonstrating performance in this regard, and many pre-qualification qu...
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| author | James Upstill-Goddard |
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| description | The careful management of sustainability issues is increasingly being demanded by construction clients and others within the construction supply chain. Certification to sustainability standards is widely recognised as a means of demonstrating performance in this regard, and many pre-qualification questionnaires and tender processes now explicitly require their suppliers to provide evidence of sustainability standard certificates and policies. However, implementation of these standards is a costly and time consuming process, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Smaller firms often lack the fundamental know-how of how to address the requirements of standards and are required to engage the services of consultancies in order to implement them, which further increases the costs associated with their implementation. [Continues.] |
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| spelling | rr-article-95796682016-01-01T00:00:00Z Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability James Upstill-Goddard (1247730) Sustainability standards Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) Learning framework Responsible sourcing Organisational learning Absorptive capacity The careful management of sustainability issues is increasingly being demanded by construction clients and others within the construction supply chain. Certification to sustainability standards is widely recognised as a means of demonstrating performance in this regard, and many pre-qualification questionnaires and tender processes now explicitly require their suppliers to provide evidence of sustainability standard certificates and policies. However, implementation of these standards is a costly and time consuming process, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Smaller firms often lack the fundamental know-how of how to address the requirements of standards and are required to engage the services of consultancies in order to implement them, which further increases the costs associated with their implementation. [Continues.] 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Thesis 2134/21655 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Towards_a_framework_to_enable_construction_small_and_medium-sized_enterprises_SMEs_to_manage_sustainability/9579668 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sustainability standards Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) Learning framework Responsible sourcing Organisational learning Absorptive capacity James Upstill-Goddard Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title | Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title_full | Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title_fullStr | Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title_short | Towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to manage sustainability |
| title_sort | towards a framework to enable construction small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) to manage sustainability |
| topic | Sustainability standards Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) Learning framework Responsible sourcing Organisational learning Absorptive capacity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21655 |