Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

This book contains practical experiences, knowledge, and insights in the evolution, formulation, and implementation of strategies and models for flexibility, innovation, and sustainable business.

This book focuses on latest cutting-edge research to address the interaction between risk and innovation management in supply chains.

The book provides an overview of socially responsible consumption and marketing, as well as a collection of teaching cases that discuss and emphasize how 21st-century organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, are addressing socially responsible consumers and meeting their changing needs while remaining profitable.

This book aims to answer the question: how can the industry action international approaches to corporate sustainability, ultimately achieving sustainable development and overall sustainability?

This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders' perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism.

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings.

This book focuses on CSR in the public sector, in all its manifestations around the world, in order to consider its application in practice and its connections to sustainable objectives.

This book explores the concepts of sustainability and governance in relation to the governance of corporations - hence the ubiquity of the term corporate governance - and other bodies.

This book focuses on CSR in the public sector, in all its manifestations around the world, in order to consider its application in practice and its connections to sustainable objectives.

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.

This book is the first work to conduct the emergency logistics optimization problem under the epidemic environment (whether natural or man-made), which provides a new perspective for the application of optimization theory.

This book uses case studies to discuss consumer awareness of and education on sustainable fashion.

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.

This book addresses a broad range of problems commonly encountered in the fields of financial analysis, logistics and supply chain management, such as the use of big data analytics in the banking sector.

The 46 original case studies featured in this book demonstrate that in many business sectors, local people and foreigners are responding to the challenges of achieving business success while competing with integrity.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Business begins by briefly outlining the legacy of environmental and social failures that have arisen as a result of conventional business practices, and then describes the coalescence of a broad-based contemporary redesign of business that has been called 'The Next Industrial Revolution'.

Sustainability is a concept that unifies the environment, economy, and society, and has spread as a key concept in enterprise management.

This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries.

This book analyses various aspects of social responsibility, corporate responsibility, sustainability and governance.

This book addresses key issues related to the choice between governments regulating and enforcing society's sustainability and social responsibility objectives, and firms reporting on their sustainable and socially responsible activities so stakeholders can exert pressure on firms to achieve society's goals.

¿Cuáles la función del derecho agrario en Colombia?

"Desde el año 2007, Colombia ha proferido varias resoluciones en virtud de las cuales ha impuesto la obligación a los fabricantes e importadores (de plaguicidas, medicamentos, pilas y acumuladores, computadores e impresoras, baterías, llantas usadas y baterías usadas con plomo ácido), de diseñar, financiar e implementar programas de devolución selectiva de estos residuos.

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Publication of the Year 2024 The Handbook of the Circular Economy takes a unique look at this rapidly expanding field of activity from the perspectives of global thought leaders, world-leading researchers and industry.

Representing the coordinated work of a research group from four different Italian University departments which conducted the Eco-Management for Food (EMAF) Project, this book offers a systematic approach for managing and improving the environmental aspects of agri-food processes and products using Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS).

This Encyclopaedia investigates the relation of total quality manage-ment (TQM) and just-in-time purchasing (JITP) with respect to firms performance, based on theories from operations management, organization theory, strategic management and marketing.

This Encyclopaedia investigates the relation of total quality manage-ment (TQM) and just-in-time purchasing (JITP) with respect to firms performance, based on theories from operations management, organization theory, strategic management and marketing.

Sustainability is a concept that unifies the environment, economy, and society, and has spread as a key concept in enterprise management.

This book addresses key issues related to the choice between governments regulating and enforcing society's sustainability and social responsibility objectives, and firms reporting on their sustainable and socially responsible activities so stakeholders can exert pressure on firms to achieve society's goals.

The book details the basics of Frontline Sales Management and broadly covers all aspects of managerial skills presented by a veteran with over two decades experience in sales and sales management with topics ranging from: *Managing oneself in terms of time and priorities to setting goals *Interviewing sales personnel, importance of training *Conducting training workshops, delegation, problem-solving, managing meetings, caring for the customer.

ADB became a Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) supporter in November 2021 and this report represents ADB's first climate-related financial disclosures under the TCFD framework.

This report explores how the central securities depository and real-time gross settlement (CSD-RTGS) linkage model could be applied to collective investment scheme (CIS) passporting frameworks in Asia to enhance the post-trade efficiency of the region's bond markets.

This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances.

This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in the Philippines, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances.

This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in Thailand, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuance.

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement enables countries to utilize market and nonmarket approaches to achieve their nationally determined contributions.

This report is a key resource for understanding the dynamic trade and production linkages of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to support data-driven policy making and implementation.

This publication presents a biodiversity baseline assessment that was conducted in 2014-2015 at the Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Bhutan.

This publication launches the Inclusive Green Growth Index, a new comprehensive metric that captures the key dimensions of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

The Asian Development Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ASEAN+3) are looking to explore options to promote green local currency-denominated bonds to meet the region's infrastructure development needs.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has seen governments across developing Asia move significant amounts of capital into relief efforts that have saved countless lives and livelihoods.

This report provides the first comprehensive study of publicly capitalised green investment banks (GIBs), analysing the rationales, mandates and financing activities of this relatively new category of public financial institution.

Commitment to sustainability and social responsibility goals will require the creation of new roles and entrepreneurial approaches.

This book is a comprehensive and timely publication that aims to be an essential reference source, building on contemporary research in the fields of circular economy and green transition in relation to entrepreneurship and technological change.

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

It has become increasingly clear that promotion of sustainability initiatives by governments and other public institutions alone is not enough to bring about the necessary progress in tackling the 'Grand Challenges' of climate change and inequality.

Sustainable Tourism: Entrepreneurship Innovations and Strategies explores the evolving landscape of tourism meeting the pressing need for sustainability.

This book explores the historical and theoretical classification of True Cost Accounting (TCA) and its business-oriented ways of implementation.

This book introduces a 'triple-bottom-line' approach to the concept and practice of family business sustainability.

This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries.