Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations

Tiedon lisääntyminen koskien ympäristöhaasteita näkyy ulkoisten sidosryhmien lisääntyneessä paineessa yrityksiä kohtaan. Nykyään yritykset vastaavat näihin vaatimuksiin esimerkiksi kiinnittämällä huomiota yritystoimintaansa ja niiden mahdollisiin ympäristövaikutuksiin. Elinkaariarvioinnilla on poten...

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Main Author: Koski, Ines
Other Authors: Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65842
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description Tiedon lisääntyminen koskien ympäristöhaasteita näkyy ulkoisten sidosryhmien lisääntyneessä paineessa yrityksiä kohtaan. Nykyään yritykset vastaavat näihin vaatimuksiin esimerkiksi kiinnittämällä huomiota yritystoimintaansa ja niiden mahdollisiin ympäristövaikutuksiin. Elinkaariarvioinnilla on potentiaalia tuottaa tietoa yrityksen omista toimista ja siitä, mitkä toimet aiheuttavat suurimmat ympäristövaikutukset. Tämän Pro gradu -työn tarkoituksena on tutkia, miten tapausyritys voi sisällyttää elinkaariarvioinnin tuottamaa tietoa toimintaansa. Tutkimusongelma on ”kuinka elinkaaritietoa voidaan sisällyttää yrityksen toimintaan”. Tutkimus oli luonteeltaan kvalitatiivinen ja toteutettiin tapaustutkimuksena haastatteluiden avulla. Tutkimusta varten haastateltiin viittä yrityksessä työskentelevää asiantuntijaa, joilla oli aiempaa tietoa elinkaariarviointiprosessista. Haastattelut toteutettiin puolistrukturoituina teemahaastatteluina. Tutkimustuloksia analysointiin deduktiivisella sisällönanalyysilla sekä teemoittelulla. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että elinkaariarviointia pidetään tärkeänä ja ainutlaatuisena työkaluna, joka on osittain hankalasti ymmärrettävä ja hidas toteuttaa. Tiedon jakamista, tietoisuuden lisäämistä ja henkilökunnan kouluttamista koettiin parhaina keinoina sisällyttää elinkaaritietoa yrityksen toimintoihin. Sisäisen viestinnän kehityksen havaittiin tukevan elinkaaritiedon sisällyttämistä. The increase in knowledge on environmental challenges can be seen in increased pressure from external stakeholder groups towards corporations. Corporations are nowadays answering these demands by, for instance, paying more attention to their operations and their possible impacts to the environment. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has the potential to produce information of the company’s own actions and what actions cause the greatest impact to the environment. This Thesis aims at researching how the case company can incorporate life cycle information from a life cycle assessment into their operations. The research problem is stated as “How can life cycle information be incorporated into company operations”. The research method is qualitative and was carried out following a case study strategy and implemented through interviewing. The interviews were conducted through five expert interviews of employees within the corporation with prior knowledge on the LCA process. The interviews were theme interviews with a structured form of questions provided. The research results were analysed through thematic analysis in addition to deductive data analysis method. Research findings indicate that LCA is considered as an important and one of a kind environmental tool, which can be difficult to understand and time-consuming to implement. Life cycle information was found best to be incorporated into corporate operations through sharing information, increasing awareness and employee training. The development of internal communication was found to benefit life cycle information incorporation.
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title Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
title_full Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
title_fullStr Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
title_full_unstemmed Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
title_short Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
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title_txtP Incorporation of life cycle information into company operations
topic organisaatio-oppiminen tiedon jakaminen LCA ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING INTERNAL COMMUNICATION INFORMATION SHARING Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 elinkaariarviointi sisäinen viestintä life cycle analysis internal communication
topic_facet 20425 Corporate Environmental Management INFORMATION SHARING INTERNAL COMMUNICATION LCA ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen elinkaariarviointi internal communication life cycle analysis organisaatio-oppiminen sisäinen viestintä tiedon jakaminen
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