Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Sustainable Frontiers throws down the gauntlet to business to step up and be the catalyst for a sustainable future.

Procurement can be your company's secret weapon for winning in turbulent times.

This book covers topics related to implementation of advanced technologies, such as AI, big data, procurement 4.

The policy of the United States and, by extension, that of many oil importing countries, toward OPEC countries is in large part a function of an estimate of the factors that condition oil decisions in exporting countries.

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges they will face in today's interconnected, global economy.

Now in its fifth edition, this hallmark text provides a comprehensive, article-by-article guide to the workings of the CMR Convention, as incorporated into English Law by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

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 provides an overview of the aviation sector by focusing on all major aspects embedded in the environment (subsystems) and the market of aviation.

This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement.

Rethinking Supply Chain outlines how organizations can close the gap between the supply chain capabilities they have and the supply chain capabilities they want.

Aimed primarily at final year undergraduate courses and MSc courses on Information Systems, Management of Information Systems and Design of Information Systems, this textbook aims to provide answers to five questions;What is security?

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world.

Where does all the time go?

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming.

Are you looking for sense and meaning in your work?

Sustainable Action and Motivation proposes individual competencies and institutional policies that can help overcome the motivational hurdles that hamper sustainable action.

Organizations need to stay competitive and transition from a linear make-use-dispose supply chain model to a sustainable one.

The fashion industry is a multibillion-dollar global industry with a variety of organizational structures and a multitude of challenges.

Actions to accomplish Agenda 2030 have gained propulsion across time yet remain undetermined in several respects.

In all but the smallest of projects the project sponsor inevitably has to buy in the goods and services of other suppliers.

A typical consumer underestimates the benefits of future energy savings and underinvests in energy efficiency, relative to a description of the socially optimal level of energy efficiency.

This book examines corruption in public procurement in three Member States of the EU, reviewing their different approaches to combating corruption, and the extent to which the transparency principle is applied in their procurement systems.

ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks.

This book discusses the connection between fast fashion brands and customer-centric sustainability.

This book adopts a case study based research approach to examine the contemporary issues in the fashion industry.

Ethiopia is facing environmental and poverty challenges, and urgently needs effective management of its environmental resources.

Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple, entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management.

The book will explore, using multiple perspectives from multiple contributors, two main aspects for circular economy (CE) business and technology (B&T): systems and value perspectives.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America.

As the nations of the Caribbean respond to the emerging effects of climate change and prepare for those to come, tourism has the potential to either worsen or mitigate these impacts.

In a fast moving world the transportation of goods is expected to be more efficient than ever before.

This book, produced by a unique team of business experts and UN agencies, is designed to fill a critical void-between the support of more than 1,000 organisations for the globally recognised Principles of the United Nations Global Compact and the need for this support to be translated into the day-to-day running of business to create value and improve performance.

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.

Sustainable Operations Management applies the issues of sustainability to all strategic decisions of operations: capacity management, supply network, process technology, and development and organisation.

Thanks to global news and social media, we are the most informed and socially conscious generation in history.

Grow your audience, shrink your footprint, change the world Straight-talk on what makes a purposeful, sustainable event, including honest, practical insights into case studies of hits, misses, and lessons learned.

Bikash Chatterjee emphasizes the criticality of applying the principles of Lean and Six Sigma within the paradigm of the drug development process.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics.

Originally published in 1972 and ahead of its time in many respects this book was the first to take a constructive approach to the problems facing the human race in the 20th Century.

An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movement The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved.

In industrial or business cases, purchasing and procurement are significant functions.

Parametric cost estimating models are flexible tools which bring engineering, scientific and mathematical rigour to cost and schedule estimating, but great tools alone will not keep programs affordable.

This book takes the central issues facing board members today and applies the giving voice to values framework while also providing insights from practicing board members who have faced these issues.

This book is the second of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement.

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

This research anthology explores the concept of food production and supply, from farm gate to plate, bringing together contemporary thinking and research on local, national, and global issues from a stakeholder perspective.