Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

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.

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.

This book explores the interaction between sustainability, corporate responsibility, consumers, and the market.

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 is about the stories being told in the Anthropocene.

Can innovations in business change society?

This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis.

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

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

As environmental legislation grows more stringent in response to the escalating climate crisis, some of the world's largest corporations have adopted fraudulent mechanisms to keep their margins of profit, and achieve improper competitive advantage.

The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.

The third edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply chain and operations management (SCOM), combining value creation networks and interacting processes.

This book discusses corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility and business ethics across Africa generally, and Botswana specifically.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

The rise of sustainability has swept away the traditional views about firms' competitiveness, survival and profitability, advocating new approaches.

Since the process of liberalization and opening of markets in the 1990s, the emerging markets have created a thriving culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and global collaboration.

Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility drive countries, regions, and businesses to take environmental and social concerns into account when realizing economic objectives.

The phrase "e;greening of the workplace"e; refers to the range of resources used by an organization to ensure its management and industrial processes are conducive to the adoption of workplace pro-environmental behaviors by its employees, irrespective of their position, the nature of their work or their rank within the organization.

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This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth.

In this book we capture and explore different aspects of value in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

This book explores total revenue management (TRM), an emerging concept in revenue management that incorporates existing principles and tools of revenue management across all profit streams.