Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is undergoing significant socio-political and developmental transition.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the logistics industry in Vietnam from its humble beginnings to where it has currently progressed in terms of technology.

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments.

The 2020s present a decade of unprecedented disruption.

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

This handbook offers a comprehensive presentation of the field of supply chain management.

Between the 1950's and 1970's, the Sulphur industry continued to grow despite occasional shortages and excesses.

This book aims at providing cases with inspiring findings for global researchers in capacity allocation and reservation.

The Agri-Food industry currently faces a range of challenges, from food safety and security, demand, and supply gaps to the maintenance of product quality and issues in product traceability.

Dieses Buch veranschaulicht die Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation in Form von Fallstudien.

This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.

Dieses Buch bietet eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für Sozialwirtschaft, Freie Wohlfahrtspflege und Kirche, um Nachhaltigkeitsthemen und damit Zukunftsthemen zu identifizieren und implementieren.

Embedded in and interrelated with its broader socio-economic and political context, the tourism system currently faces profound challenges.

Managing operations is an integral part of all business and comprises a number of components, including quality management, production planning, supply chain management, logistics, and inventory control.

Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains-art included.

This book explores national and transnational companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in times and settings in which they are confronted with economic and social challenges and analyzes these situations, ranging from the financial crisis to fourth generation sustainability.

Introduction to Global Logistics offers a step-by-step guide to global logistics.

This book enables readers to develop their own creative thinking and their teams' creative problem-solving skills to generate novel, useful and surprising ideas.

This book applies artificial intelligence to lean production and shows how to practically combine the advantages of these two disciplines.

Due to the urbanisation of American society and the economic problems that accompanied it; a series of conferences was held to explore the economics of human resources.

Corporations are increasingly dedicated to implementing more robust climate change practices in an era characterized by natural resource constraints, socio-environmental challenges, and mounting climate change pressures.

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers' noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards.

This book analyses the effect of biological risk on business and management by considering case studies from Malaysia, Lebanon, and G20 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Irgendetwas scheint mit unserer Wirtschaft nicht zu stimmen.

While we need to work more with a systems approach, there are few books that provide systems engineering theory and applications.

The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection of the natural environment have developed into maturing areas of study within the management sciences.

This practice-oriented guide comprehensively describes the basics of planning and implementing project management in logistics and supply chain management.

Damit alle ein gutes Leben innerhalb der Grenzen unseres Planeten führen können, müssen wir unser Verhalten in unterschiedlichen Facetten des Alltags ändern.

Innovative strategies for building and managing the supply chain using Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC)With an emphasis on systems thinking, Building Lean Supply Chains with the Theory of Constraints uniquely integrates TOC with Lean, illustrating how these two philosophies complement and reinforce each other to create the smooth flow of goods and services through the supply chain.

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society?

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise.

If there is one area of business education that requires out-of-the-box, creative thinking it is sustainability.

Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management.

All organisations are affected by fraud, but disproportionately so for SMEs given their size and vulnerability.

How can businesses around the world incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their models, policies and practices?

We are living in the middle of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, with new technology leading to dramatic shifts in everything from manufacturing to supply chain logistics.

This book offers a unique analysis of how our definitions of luxury have changed over the ages, and with that the role and actions of both suppliers and buyers of luxury products.

Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a practical and application-oriented manner.

The fashion industry has a dynamic, ever-changing landscape.

Most companies do not yet recognize what it means to adapt to future climate change, and do not yet see it as a business priority.

This book explores certain social and environmental drivers of sustainable economic growth for European Union countries (EU-27) and United Kingdom (UK) in the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine brought massive disruption to supply chains around the world, shining a light on the environmental impacts of such systems.

This book explores the role of accounting and reporting practices, such as corporate and integrated reports, as organizations attempt to represent sustainability.

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