Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions?

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.

A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.

This ground-breaking book portrays an emerging global culture.

Current models of corporate citizenship largely consider business as one coherent entity.

This book presents criteria and recommendations for successful negotiations.

Operational excellence, as a quest in the prevailing digital era, is predicated on a systems view of the operating environments in business, industry, government, academia, and other organizational entities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains, hence corporations must devise and realign their policies and strategies accordingly to stay competitive in this dynamic situation.

'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a more sustainable world.

Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or "e;global business-as-usual"e; were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

This book reports on interdisciplinary research and developments in logistics.

Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of materials, information and financial funds.

With digitalization a consistent theme on every procurement leader's agenda, this book provides a practical approach, empowering leaders to skilfully navigate the intricacies of digital transformation in procurement.

Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become more competitive.

This short textbook consolidates all the key aspects of operations management into a concise and easily accessible reference tool.

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly.

Indigenous peoples have historically gained little from large-scale resource development on their traditional lands, and have suffered from its negative impacts on their cultures, economies and societies.

This book provides an overview of the key transportation management processes from a shipper's perspective.

By the end of World War II, the United States had become well integrated into the world markets for forest products.

After three decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world's second largest economy in 2010 after the United States of America.

In recent years, a new movement has emerged within organizational psychology, transposing the established principles of the field onto arenas of more pressing humanitarian need, including the humanitarian treatment of all workers in all work settings.

Cybersecurity is typically viewed as the boogeyman, and vendors are responsible for 63% of reported data breaches in organisations.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization.

Companies more and more compete as integrated supply chains rather than as individual firms.

Features emerging trends that are shaping supply chain operations worldwide as well as impacting the global business landscape Beginning with the assertion that supply chains are an overlooked factor behind anemic economic growth, Protean Supply Chains: Ten Dynamics of Supply and Demand Alignment provides a comprehensive overview of the developments occurring in the field of supply chain management.

This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.

One of the most significant techniques to which companies and organizations have turned to improve service delivery and reduce costs has been outsourcing.

In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world's water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it.

This book examines the factors which contribute to local green development in China and employs political ecology to analyze the relationship between power and the environment.

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms' performance.

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

This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement.

This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught.

This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Innovation Ecosystems and Sustainable Technologies: Enhancing Competitiveness and Sustainability draws connections between innovation ecosystems and sustainable development to seek ways of improving economic, environmental and social wellbeing based on improvements to the innovation ecosystems.

The Corporate Responsibility Code Book has become the go-to guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying diverse stakeholders.

This publication is the first one to develop a global impact taxonomy for FinTechs that aspire to fulfill the SDGs.

Are the demands placed on 21st-century business leaders compatible with Christian values?

Dieses Buch mit aktualisierten und neuen Beiträgen für eine erfolgreiche Unternehmensorganisation setzt neue Akzente auf eine ganzheitliche Unternehmensorganisation vor dem Hintergrund turbulenter Märkte.

As Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1991-2001 and Anglo American plc from 2002-2009, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is as qualified as anyone on the planet to discuss the realities, dilemmas and lessons to be learnt from the last 20 years of corporate engagement with sustainability, ethics and responsibility.

Virtually unknown just a few years ago, gamification is fast emerging as a user engagement and behaviour change tool that succeeds where other tactics and strategies have failed.

With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalised world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research.

Applied game theory in purchasing has become an important tool in many companies for systematically achieving success in negotiations.

In the "e;More than Moore"e; era, performance requirements for leading edge semiconductor devices are demanding extremely fine pitch interconnection in semiconductor packaging.

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.