Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Never before have the pressures of a comparative and competitive world impacted on our sense of wellbeing, particularly among young adults.

Uncertainty, Disruption and Resilience explores how companies implemented various plans of action to respond to the Bangkok floods in 2011.

With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.

Most investment today is conducted by a relatively small number of institutional investors - pension funds and investment managers - who manage the pensions and saving funds of millions of ordinary people.

An incisive and accessible blueprint to pricing your company s products and services In The Pricing Model Revolution: How Pricing Will Change the Way We Sell and Buy On and Offline, world renowned pricing expert Danilo Zatta delivers an essential and engaging blueprint to building an enduring competitive advantage with insightful pricing models.

The make-take-waste paradigm of fast fashion explains much of the producer and consumer behavior patterns towards fast fashion.

By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, governments, business, civil society and multilateral agencies have been seeking innovative ways to work together to respond to the myriad global challenges of our time: the impact of climate change; human security; the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other major diseases; the generation of new investment, entrepreneurship and employment; and financing for development.

Substitution has long been a common remedy for materials shortages.

The Ark of Shared Value is a fundamental guide for those involved in designing and implementing sustainable business projects.

This book provides a detailed theoretical background of Logistics 4.

Supply Chain Design for E-Retailers compares e-retailing to traditional retailing and examines the reduced costs of store-keeping.

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.

We have never had more freedom to acquire information to make decisions, and organizations have never been so pressed to demonstrate accountability as they communicate with better informed customers and users.

Nachhaltigkeit ist mittlerweile als wichtiges Thema in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft angekommen.

In today's connected global marketplace, success and failure is bound up with the management of your inter-organisational partnerships.

Tourism, as with many parts of the economy, is at a pause-reflect-rest stage in the post pandemic world.

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be "e;good,"e; "e;bad,"e; "e;right,"e; "e;wrong,"e; "e;fair,"e; or "e;just"e;?

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'.

Disruptions in the global supply chain bring companies to a standstill.

Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems examines initiatives for blockchain implementation in supply chain management and the integration of blockchain technology with existing enterprise management applications.

For decades, workers' capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world.

The vast majority of invested assets do not consider environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors.

The Executive's Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship is a succinct handbook that provides senior managers with everything they need to understand how corporate citizenship builds reputation, delivers value to the bottom line, and mobilizes an organization's employees and customers.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th international Global Sourcing Workshop 2018, held in La Thuile, Italy, in February 2018.

The internet was envisaged as a decentralised global network, but in the past 25 years it has come to be controlled by a few, very powerful, centralised companies.

This book primarily focuses on the coordinated development of port groups and the environment.

Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business.

The impact of technological change, globalization, information and communication technologies and international governmental intervention has radically altered supply chain strategies, operations and risk profiles for most organizations.

A Circular Economy seeks to rebuild capital, whether this is financial, manufactured, human, social or natural, and offers opportunities and solutions for all organisations.

Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations explores sustainability in the context of organisational practice and its implications for learning.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

In the second edition of this book, the concept of resource-based sustainability has once again been expanded to include further references to modern management theories.

On the backdrop of the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, and the emergence of multi-stakeholder-driven voluntary regulation, this timely collection places special emphasis on India and explores its international voluntary sustainability standards.

This book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format.

Today, economic growth must be in harmony with environmental sustainability.

This volume addresses the need to integrate gender equality into business and management education and provides examples of leading initiatives illustrating how this can occur from various disciplinary and global perspectives.

This edited collection presents cutting edge research into the topic of green messages and subsequent consumer responses.

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 unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and on a range of stakeholders, including employees and consumers.

This book lays out the evolution of the often contested construction management discipline.

The era of hybrid governance is here.

In digitalisierten, segmentierten, globalisierten und passgenau konfigurierten Wertschöpfungsprozessen ist die Beschaffung eine Quelle von Effizienz-, Effektivitäts- und Wettbewerbsvorteilen.

Over the last decade Lean and Six Sigma methods and tools have helped organizations improve to historic productivity levels with the data driven, systematic elimination of waste and improvement of flow.

This book analyses the implementation and challenges of using Geographical Indications in Norway.

The business case for sustainability or corporate responsibility will never be strong enough to support an isolated business in its competition against the unscrupulous.

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines practical examples, flat patterns and more than 20 exercises to help you incorporate this sustainable technique into your portfolio.