气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Opportunities and challenges of empowering SMEs for sustainable Healthcare delivery

CCPortal

DOI	10.24294/jipd.v8i2.2579
	Opportunities and challenges of empowering SMEs for sustainable Healthcare delivery
	Akinola, Segun; Obokoh, Lawrence
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2572-7923
EISSN	2572-7931
起始页码	8
结束页码	2
卷号	8 期号:2
英文摘要	This paper examines the sustainability practices implemented by healthcare establishments, mainly Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs), We focus on identifying opportunities with challenges involved. This systematic literature analyses 47 studies that explore sustainability practices in the healthcare system globally. The finding from the studies reveals that healthcare organizations with SMEs adopt diverse measures like renewable energy, a reduction, and a response procurement in minimizing the impact on the environment and ensuring financial stability. The challenges SMEs face comprise limited financial resources, lack of expertise, with difficulties accessing information and support. Furthermore, we suggest opportunities for SMEs to enhance sustainability practices with partnerships with other organizations and investing in educating employees. Implementation of sustainability practices will improve the financial stability, and environmental impact, with the wellbeing of healthcare stakeholders. The empirical evidence, comparative studies with cross-disciplinary are needed in exploring the effectiveness of the different suitability practices, potential trade-offs, synergies between sustainability and other organizational goals, the effect of sustainability practice in the financial with non-financial performance on SMEs in healthcare establishment are positive, with cost-effectiveness, efficiencies operations, improving brand reputations and engaging the employee. Established factors like regulating frameworks and government initiatives play a major role in the influence of adopting sustainability practices with cultural factors.
英文关键词	healthcare; Small and Medium enterprises; well-being; sustainability; stakeholders; organizations; sectors
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
WOS类目	Management
WOS记录号	WOS:001178126000030
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/295861
作者单位	University of Johannesburg
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Akinola, Segun,Obokoh, Lawrence. Opportunities and challenges of empowering SMEs for sustainable Healthcare delivery[J],2024,8(2).
APA	Akinola, Segun,&Obokoh, Lawrence.(2024).Opportunities and challenges of empowering SMEs for sustainable Healthcare delivery.JOURNAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT,8(2).
MLA	Akinola, Segun,et al."Opportunities and challenges of empowering SMEs for sustainable Healthcare delivery".JOURNAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT 8.2(2024).