Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

This book takes a fresh look at current issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) with a special focus on emerging economies.

This book is a comprehensive reference on ISO management system standards and their implementation.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance.

This book focuses on environmental and social factors in international supply chains and industry networks.

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management.

This book explores different dimensions of the field of corporate governance and social responsibility.

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity.

This book explores national and transnational companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in times and settings in which they are confronted with economic and social challenges and analyzes these situations, ranging from the financial crisis to fourth generation sustainability.

This book discusses the unique relationship between societies and businesses in the Mediterranean region, with contributions from public figures and academics from Middle Eastern and Arab societies, as well as from North America and Europe.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR.

This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts.

This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes.

Voll Tatendrang tritt der aufstrebende Chemiker seine Stelle im Konzern an.

The fashion industry has a high environmental impact in terms of its carbon, water and waste footprint, and is therefore facing increased pressure from multiple stakeholders to balance environmental, social and economic needs - the triple bottom line.

This volume examines the importance of leadership in developing an effective sustainability strategy.

Increased ecological awareness and the growing scarcity of resources have led to the introduction of new environmental standards, triggering enterprises, regions, and even countries to adopt new business models and industrial reconversion approaches.

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments.

This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught.

This book seeks to understand how society and businesses are affected by, and respond to, the coronavirus crisis in various parts of the world.

Green Banking is the first guide encompassing all the disciplines necessary to realize renewable energy projects.

This volume presents a transdisciplinary approach to implementing a circular economy in international business.

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A clarion call for marketing to return to its roots and integrate sustainability principles, this book illustrates how the marketing function can drive organizations, delighting customers and impacting positively on society and the environment.

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of sustainability and responsibility.

Companies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies.

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

This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate change and post-COVID recovery.

Increased ecological awareness and the growing scarcity of resources have led to the introduction of new environmental standards, triggering enterprises, regions, and even countries to adopt new business models and industrial reconversion approaches.

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain.

In contemporary times, most organizational functions (such as finance, marketing, and supply chains) have assessed their impact on the environment.

This book applies artificial intelligence to lean production and shows how to practically combine the advantages of these two disciplines.

The book is one of the first ones focussing on how organisations (civil society, corporations, and public sector ones) are contributing to sustainability.

This book discusses and exchanges information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of technological challenges in a digital era.

This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement.

This volume presents a transdisciplinary approach to implementing a circular economy in international business.

This book provides a holistic approach to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the planning and management of sustainable development in tourism.

We have entered a new era where business, technologies, communities, and even pandemic deceases cross borders with unprecedented speed and intensity.

This book presents the current causes and effects of implementing sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as well as green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies in the automotive industry.

This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various strategic and operational recommendations in this regard.

This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes.

This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the business and government sector can adapt to today's fast-changing climate.

Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems.

This book explores the history of social impact measurement, offering justifications for the use of social impact measurement in modern society.