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Resource Based View:
Determines the re-
sources which are effective on the competitive
advantages of firms.
Transaction costs:
Costs which are occurred
in an economic exchange and represents the
cost of
planning, adapting, and monitoring task
completion.
Vertical Integration:
A firm is classified as
vertically integrated if its segments are operating
in two or more different industries and the output
of one industry segment is used as input by suc-
ceeding industry segments.
Vertical Integration Measurement:
Measur-
ing vertical integration level with input-output-
tables or financial-accounts based indices.
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ENDNOTES
1
“The Staying Power of Sustainability:
Balancing Opportunity and Risk in the
Hospitality Industry,” Deloitte, 2008.
KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
2
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/econom-
ics/laureates/2009/press.html
Environmental collaboration:
Working
together with customers or suppliers to plan
environmental activities in a sustainable supply
chain for better performance.
Green Logistics and Supply Chain Manage-
ment:
Network of interconnected businesses that
are pursuing strategies for being responsible to
environment.
Natural-Resource-Based View:
Analyses of
the resources which are valuable, rare, inimitable,
non-substitutable, and affect the environmental
performance of the firms.
Natural-Transaction-Cost Analysis:
Exami-
nation of transaction costs that affect the environ-
mental performance of sustainable businesses.
3
The data set of Fan & Lang (2002) is available
from Prof. Joseph P.H. Fan's personal web-
site: http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b109671/
relatedness.htm. Various researchers used
Fan and Lang's IO-SIC conversion tables
in their analyses (e.g. see Kale and Shahrur,
2007; Raman and Shahrur, 2008)
4
The complete sets of Bureau of Economic
Analysis Benchmark Input-Output 2002
tables are accessible from: http://www.bea.
gov/industry/io_benchmark.htm#2002data
