Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

This book focuses on futuristic approaches and designs for real-time systems and applications, as well as the fundamental concepts of including advanced techniques and tools in models of data-driven blockchain ecosystems.

India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty.

Winner of the 2020 Book Award for the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the leading governance frame with which the international community tries to address complex interconnected global issues.

How effective are multinational companies at improving working conditions in their supply chains?

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.

This edited volume provides an innovative perspective on the future of food systems.

ISO 14001 is the star standard among the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards.

Sustainability is, and continues to grow as, a key issue for organizations: in the board room; with investors, customers and regulators; and from employees whose demands on organizations include improving their social and environmental performance in return for loyalty and commitment.

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

We have, in the last few years, radically improved our grasp of the quantum world.

The food industry is experiencing a digital transformation across the entire supply chain, from farm to fork.

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state.

There have been a lot of innovations in making the garment or apparel production sector sustainable.

The blue economy, comprising coastal and marine resources, offers vast benefits for sub-Saharan Africa: of the 53 countries and territories in the region, 32 are coastal states; there are 13 million sq km of maritime zones; more than 90% of the region's exports and imports come by sea; and the African Union hails the blue economy as the 'new frontier of African renaissance'.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations' SC performance and improve sustainable operations.

The book provides various research methods and ordering policies for inventory management in the sustainable environment in India.

This book sets out to explain blockchain for the non-technical expert, to decipher the dense technicalities that dominate the field and to present the opportunities for busy professionals using practical applications and case studies.

This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region.

This book comprises carefully selected and reviewed outcomes of the 13th International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN) held in Vienna, 2022, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2022.

As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it, including the rise of robotics and the gig economy, Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the debate on the future of work, sustainable development, and the social and solidarity economy of which cooperatives are a fundamental component.

This utterly unique how-to supply chain management work is written as mystery to help engage readers.

This volume provides a platform for localized perspectives on CSR in developing countries across the globe.

Dieses Buch stellt wissenschaftliche Fortschritte in den Bereichen Einkauf, Materialwirtschaft, Supply Chain Management und Logistik vor.

Leather and its products are globally traded commodities known for durability, fashion, reuse, repurpose, and resistance to degradation.

This book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding of the contribution higher education can make to human flourishing.

This book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.

This book addresses the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability (EIS), presenting high-quality research illuminating the relationship between the three fields.

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

Negotiation is an essential skill for all those operating commercially on behalf of their organisations.

Offering a holistic approach to positive luxury, this comprehensive book provides a novel framework grounded in the new paradigm of Transformative Luxury Research (TLR) stream.

Foreword Among researchers in the business and management disciplines, there is some kind of a common understanding that research should provide models, concepts and solutions for practical problems.

One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases.

This book focuses on four key issues that are crucial to achieving productivity and sustainability in the circular supply chain management industry.

In the age of global capitalism, shareholders, and profits are not the only concerns of modern business corporations.

This book highlights the principles and practices that lead to sustainable and positive leadership within SME.

Timeless Insights for Planning and Managing 21st-Century Warehouse OperationsDespite today's just-in-time production mentality, with its efforts to eliminate warehouses and their inventory carrying costs, effective warehousing continues to play a critical bottom-line role for companies worldwide.

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The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade.

It is a systems world.

Supply Chain Finance is a contributed book looking at the two major perspectives of managing finance across the supply chain.

Jörg Neubauer entwickelt ein Modell, das strukturelle Einflussfaktoren auf die Korruptionsanfälligkeit in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland identifiziert und nach deren Stärke quantifiziert.

Operations Management (OM) is a multi-faceted blend of myriad academic andpractical disciplines - from engineering and economics via mathematics and marketing, to systems and psychology.

When Advanced Project Management first appeared it quickly acquired a reputation for excellence on both sides of the Atlantic as a book that successfully bridges the gap between introductory texts on project management and specialist works on professional practice.