Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis

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Autor(a) principal: Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Martín-Gamboa, Mario, Iribarren, Diego
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/37524
Resumo: A sound management of retail stores is a crucial aspect in the path towards a sustainable commercial sector, with a lack of research studies in the field of joint efficiency and sustainability assessment within this sector. In this sense, this work delves into the role of operational efficiency in the sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the case study of 30 groceries in Spain over the period 2015-2017. With this purpose, and given the current knowledge gap in period-oriented sustainability benchmarking for management plans, for the first time a five-step methodological framework based on the combination of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was proposed and applied to a case study within the service sector. The overall- and term-efficiency scores calculated through this method led to the general conclusion of a relatively good performance of the set of grocery stores over the evaluated period, which is associated with the centralised management strategy followed by the retail company. Furthermore, operational, socio-economic and environmental benchmarks were calculated as target values that could assist decision-makers at the retail company level in setting the path for a sustainable operation of the company's stores. Overall, the proposed period-oriented LCA + DEA method proved to be a feasible and valuable tool for sustainability management of retail stores, being preferred over the static (i.e., single term) alternative provided that time-series data are available at the company level.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
title Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
spellingShingle Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina
Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Grocery
Life cycle assessment
Retail
Sustainability management
title_short Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
title_full Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
title_fullStr Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
title_sort Sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the combination of life cycle assessment and dynamic data envelopment analysis
author Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina
author_facet Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina
Martín-Gamboa, Mario
Iribarren, Diego
author_role author
author2 Martín-Gamboa, Mario
Iribarren, Diego
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Álvarez-Rodríguez, Cristina
Martín-Gamboa, Mario
Iribarren, Diego
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Grocery
Life cycle assessment
Retail
Sustainability management
topic Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Grocery
Life cycle assessment
Retail
Sustainability management
description A sound management of retail stores is a crucial aspect in the path towards a sustainable commercial sector, with a lack of research studies in the field of joint efficiency and sustainability assessment within this sector. In this sense, this work delves into the role of operational efficiency in the sustainability-oriented management of retail stores through the case study of 30 groceries in Spain over the period 2015-2017. With this purpose, and given the current knowledge gap in period-oriented sustainability benchmarking for management plans, for the first time a five-step methodological framework based on the combination of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was proposed and applied to a case study within the service sector. The overall- and term-efficiency scores calculated through this method led to the general conclusion of a relatively good performance of the set of grocery stores over the evaluated period, which is associated with the centralised management strategy followed by the retail company. Furthermore, operational, socio-economic and environmental benchmarks were calculated as target values that could assist decision-makers at the retail company level in setting the path for a sustainable operation of the company's stores. Overall, the proposed period-oriented LCA + DEA method proved to be a feasible and valuable tool for sustainability management of retail stores, being preferred over the static (i.e., single term) alternative provided that time-series data are available at the company level.
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