What is a bumble bee worth? How to manage green investments to create and capture sustainable value in Swedish AEC organizations
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Design and construction project management (MPDCM), MSc
Publicerad
2023
Författare
Härnström, Elsa
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Due to the shift among capital actors and the implementation of the EU Taxonomy,
sustainability and finance is getting increasingly linked, and green investments has been
identified as an enabler to change the EU economy. Consequently, companies in the
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry will need to transform their
businesses to align with the changing environment. This thesis aims at investigating green
investments and their impact on the AEC business environment, and how the future benefits of
green investments better can be managed, valued, and motivated by an architecture and
engineering consultancy firm. To reach the aim, a qualitative research strategy with an
inductive reasoning was applied, and the study consist of a literature study, qualitative
interviews, and a case study. According to this study, the main incentives to why construction
companies make green investments are due to stakeholder pressure. Further, it could be
identified how green investments will increase the demand for green services. In order to
manage green investment and sustainability, environmental competences and capabilities are
essential, and both intra-and interorganizational collaboration appear to be of high value. Green
investments have the potential to transform the AEC sector, because ‘not being green’ should
be considered a business risk.
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Green investments , green services , the EU Taxonomy , sustainable business models , construction , the AEC sector , environmental competences , environmental capabilities , ACAP , the sustainability transition , sustainable transformation , green construction