Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

The Circular Economy (CE) and CE-related approaches are increasingly prominent in corporate strategy, with potential environmental, social, and economic benefits to the organization.

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food, but not clothes.

Focusing on the business implications of green innovation, this book describes the sheer impact, spread, and opportunities arising every day, and how business leaders can implement green innovative practices today to realize tangible as well as intangible business advantages in the future.

The Future MBA brings together 100 ideas on how to rethink management education in order to embed sustainability.

This book presents expert descriptions of the successful application of operations research in both the private and the public sector, including in logistics, transportation, product design, production planning and scheduling, and areas of social interest.

Das Internet zeichnet sich durch eine starke Dynamik und vielfaltige Innovationen aus.

Every fifteen seconds on our Earth, a child dies from waterborne disease.

Among the biggest mistakes manufacturers make is not keeping key equipment and processes running and making saleable product when needed.

This book introduces readers to additive technology and its application in different business sectors.

Management training is an organised procedure which brings about a semi-permanent change in behavioral, for a definite purpose.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works.

Das Buch beschreibt Logistikmanagement als strategische Führungsfunktion, wobei der Fokus auf einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung und Optimierung logistischer Prozesse liegt.

This is the decade for climate action.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

The New Sustainability Advantage shows how the benefits of the "e;triple bottom line"e; can increase a typical company's profit by at least 51 to 81% within five years, depending on the company's size and industry sector, while avoiding risks that could jeopardize its financial wellbeing.

The age of the real-time supply chain has finally arrived.

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow.

This book introduces readers to the main types of corporate sustainability practices.

This book gathers selected research articles from the International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (ICIPDIMS 2019), held at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.

The global sustainability challenge is urgent, tremendous and increasing.

The significance of business-led corporate responsibility coalitions is indisputable.

This book compiles and explains technical terms in sustainable finance in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

The menace of a post-truth era challenges conventional policy-making and science.

Die Offenlegung von sensiblen, betriebsinternen Kosteninformationen in zwischenbetrieblichen Kooperationen birgt ein typisches Controlling-Problem, auch wenn in einem untypischen Anwendungsfall, in sich.

This book provides an overview of recycled polyesters, which are an important sustainable raw material in textile production.

This book - the first of a two-volume series - argues that, today, stakeholder thinking has evolved into the study of interactive, mutually engaged and responsive relationships that establish the very context of doing modern business, and create the groundwork for transparency and accountability.

Mit dem europäischen Green Deal stellt die EU-Kommission eine Antwort auf die vom Klimawandel ausgehende Gefahr für die Menschheit und die Ökosysteme der Erde vor.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY uses an applied scientific methodology and case studies to demonstrate and support: The need for the U.

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise.

Imagine that you are a responsible investment money manager.

'Darius has a unique ability to turn complex ideas into simple stories.

LONGLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020WHAT IF BUSINESS COULD HELP SOLVE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME?

This book is the companion to "e;Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement"e;, which examined many emerging theoretical and normative issues and was released to acclaim in October 2002.

ERP Systems for Manufacturing Supply Chains: Applications, Configuration, and Performance provides insight into the core architecture, modules, and process support of ERP systems used in a manufacturing supply chain.

In The Green Leap to an Inclusive Economy, two leading thinkers, Stuart L.

This book provides an overview of evolving patterns of trade partnership with historical perspective.

The natural gas business consists of two major aspects, sourcing and transportation, and distribution has been a growing area of interest to industry, government and academia.

Product Stewardship in Action describes how and why leading companies are taking responsibility for the environmental impact of their products and packaging.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

This book shows how blockchain technology can transform the Internet, connecting global businesses in disruptive ways.

Supply Chain Strategies demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy.

In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge.

The challenges of achieving environmental sustainability and of generating decent work for all are closely linked.

This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management.

Can innovations in business change society?

Over the past decade organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, exceptional service, and more recently increased environmental and social consciousness.