Municipalities are increasingly adopting green public procurement practices in construction projects; one example is the specification of preferred building materials tenders. Before tendering documents, different stakeholders and their ambitions influence framing material requirements. In this paper we explore factors initiating wood selection five cases, where initiation phase resulted use requirements specified Based on constructed potential paths leading to be set tender documents. We...

Wood construction differs from traditional concrete materials in technical and organizational requirements for which it can be studied as an innovation, thanks to health climate change mitigation prevention capabilities, wood categorized a preventive innovation. The purpose of this study is explore incumbent actions the adoption materials. context paper interview that analyzes public procurement school buildings illustrate role We organizations identify how these relate innovation's elements...

Among the various practices required to achieve sustainability objectives and prevent climate change consequences, there are energy efficiency, behavioral changes, use of renewables. Innovations that seek deter can be considered preventive innovations. Preventive innovations those individuals adopt reduce probability unwanted future events for which, or mitigate environmental preventive. However, 'clean' technologies seldom described as In this study we explored factors support adoption...

This study explores the role of preventive quality innovations on their adoption intention. Empirically grounded in third-party ownership photovoltaic systems Finland, this examines data collected from an online survey measuring respondent intention to adopt. A series hypotheses theoretically Diffusion Innovations theory and were tested through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling with SmartPLS4. Findings for overall sample reveal that relative advantage influenced positively....

This study explores the role of preventive quality innovations on their adoption intention. The is a distinctive feature that directed towards avoiding future, possibly harmful event. Empirically grounded in third-party ownership photovoltaic systems Finland, this examines data collected from an online survey measuring respondent intention to adopt. A series hypotheses theoretically Diffusion Innovations theory and were tested through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling with...

Diffusion studies have focused in multiple areas of innovation and innovations been given various classifications. However, a type that is not widely covered diffusion yet which relevant for contemporary applications the preventive innovation. Preventive are those individuals adopt to reduce probability an unwanted event future or mitigate severity consequences event. In this study we explored if nature had influence over intent through survey study. our study, photovoltaic systems were...

Measuring impact of corporate actions on social performance (CSP) is traditionally recognized to be notoriously difficult. This manuscript reports results a study using Net Impact Method quantify CSP and approximates financial (CFP). We report findings the CFP-CSP relationship consider temporal lags between CFP measures impacts. Our are mostly supporting existing research but contrary earlier we find non-linear dynamics some accounts. Although used limited dataset, our shed additional light...

This manuscript investigates the role of preventive quality photovoltaic (PV) systems in willingness to pay (WTP). We build on existing studies investigate which factors influence WTP behavior through a survey with 284 respondents Finland. find that higher is associated concerns for preventing emissions and climate change, need more public talk environmental issues, an overall favorable attitude towards PV technologies. Since concerning panels highly context-specific, we discuss our findings...