Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

A well-monitored supply chain is any business’s key to productivity and profit.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major evolutionary leaps over the past century.

Discover the intricate nature of a company's production function and the comprehensive principles of planning operations in this book.

Die weltweiten Absatz- und Beschaffungsmärkte werden zunehmend komplexer.

Strategic Sourcing Management examines procurement and supply management in detail, covering the three dimensions of competitiveness, effectiveness and efficiency.

This book provides interpretation of China's logistics development in a new development paradigm and the rural logistics construction under the Rural Revitalization Strategy.

The Toyota Production System is the benchmark used throughout the world for "e;lean"e; thinking.

We are entering the age of sustainability - a business era where every company, big and small, must adapt its way of doing business to meet the realities of climate change, a finite supply of natural resources, evolving attitudes about inequality, increasing digitisation and automation.

This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications.

Hydrogen has recently become a popular topic and is often described as the missing link to a successful green energy transition.

The really big sustainability challenges for your business can't be solved by your business.

This practical guide is designed to help business leaders and their managers understand how to assess the impact of corporate social responsibility factors on their core business strategy and operations, and help them identify and prioritize between subsequent options and resulting business opportunities

Nach einer knappen Zusammenfassung graphentheoretischer Definitionen folgen eine allgemeine Darstellung des Prinzips und der Komponenten von Branch-and-Bound-Verfahren sowie prinzipieller Vorgehensweisen von Heuristiken.

A convergence of lean management and quality management thinking has taken place in organizations across many industries, including construction.

This book covers the subjects of break bulk cargo, general cargo and project cargo, and how these cargoes are shipped.

As organizations operate across countries and continents there is an increasing demand for the development of an HR function designed to deliver global support.

Normen und Standards erleichtern es Unternehmen und anderen Organisationen, hohe Erwartungen zuverlässig zu erfüllen.

No sector can escape the challenge of the climate crisis.

This book looks at how to build more resilience into socio-economic networks within local communities.

This book provides a combination of case studies and current action research describing how businesses and civil society organizations are working to alleviate poverty in local and global communities.

When this classic text was first published in 1992, it provided a unique focus for the burgeoning concern for sustainability and sustainable organizational practices.

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow.

In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R.

This volume provides resourceful thinking and insightful management solutions to the many challenges that decision makers face in their predictions, preparations, and implementations of the key elements that our societies and industries need to take as they move toward digitalization and smartness.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the key steps required to strategically approach becoming a successful sustainable business including conducting a CSR assessment, developing a CSR strategy and the accompanying business case, developing and implementing CSR commitments, and measuring the performance and effectiveness of the planning initiative.

This book identifies accounting-based management control system practices for managing integrated and flexible supply chains and increasing customer satisfaction.

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry.

Business-as-usual, it is widely accepted, will exceed the Earth's carrying capacity in an alarmingly short space of time.

With changing business needs and increased levels of consumer awareness concerning social and ecological issues, organisations need to realign their profitability strategies in order to demonstrate their engagement with sustainable practices.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt die als Kultkolumnen gefeierten Beiträge der Beta-Inside-Kolumne aus dem Informatik-Spektrum von 2013 bis 2017.

This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.

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.

In the early 1970s, the post-World War II boom in world metal consumption came to a halt.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success.

Managing the climate transition will be one of the biggest challenges ever faced by business and government.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), examining economic sciences and managements to show the complexity of the contemporary perception and development of CSR in Poland.

This volume discusses the complex relationship between Protected Areas and tourism and their impact on community livelihoods in a range of countries in Southern Africa.

This book investigates individual companies' and industries' supply chain risk management approaches to identify risk drivers and verify effective risk-reduction measures and business continuity plans.

Die vorliegende Arbeit verbindet zwei Themen, zu denen jeder Manager oder Berater auf Grund tiefer praktischer Einblicke eine Meinung hat: Einkauf und Hotels.

Global Supply Chain: Using Systems Engineering Strategies to Respond to Disruptions uses a systems-based approach of the tools and techniques of industrial engineering applied to the global supply chain.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business.

The main theme of this book is that, within contemporary capitalist societies a materialist outlook informed by science has triumphed creating the lack of a spiritual dimension to give meaning and purpose to the activities that are necessary for a capitalist society to function effectively.

As the nations of the Caribbean respond to and prepare for climate change, tourism has the potential to both worsen and mitigate these effects.

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies.

Last-mile delivery in cities, where the main problems are the traffic situation and ensuring access to customers' homes while maintaining their privacy, poses a substantial logistical challenge.

This book focuses on latest cutting-edge research to address the interaction between risk and innovation management in supply chains.

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