The transport industry has an important role to play in addressing climate change and the environmental challenges facing governments, businesses and individuals.
As environmental legislation grows more stringent in response to the escalating climate crisis, some of the world's largest corporations have adopted fraudulent mechanisms to keep their margins of profit, and achieve improper competitive advantage.
The supply chain management field is one of the fastestgrowing fields in our economy, given the heavygrowth in international trade as a means to accessoutsourced production opportunities to lower costsand the growth in information technology to coordinatesupply chains.
This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.
Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.
Kerstin Schmidt entwickelt ein analytisches Modell verteilter Produktentwicklungsprozesse, welches individuelle Zielsetzungen, existierende Unsicherheiten sowie insbesondere substitutionale Abhängigkeiten zwischen den Zulieferern hinsichtlich der von ihnen zu entwickelnden Komponenten berücksichtigt.
Biomimicry, the practice of observing then mimicking nature's strategies to solve business challenges, offers a path to healthy profit while working in partnership, and even reciprocity, with the natural world.
Unleashing the Power of Diversity provides a clear tool to create a common language across teams and organisations that reinforces positive identity, builds trust towards people and processes, supports innovation and helps make diversity sustainable.
Das Buch bietet eine Anleitung für Akteure, die in Kurzform erfahren möchten, wie sie in der Praxis und im Betriebsalltag bei Außenhandelsgeschäften – speziell bei der Einfuhr – vorgehen müssen.
A clarion call for marketing to return to its roots and integrate sustainability principles, this book illustrates how the marketing function can drive organizations, delighting customers and impacting positively on society and the environment.
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.
The academic and scholarly interest in the subject of branding in both the consumer and industrial markets has grown substantially in the dynamic post-pandemic environment.
Customers are increasingly seeking "e;low-cost, high-quality"e; or what is known as frugal products that meet the buyer's needs while reducing the associated cost of ownership.
The issue of sustainability is characterised as a 'wicked problem' in the fashion, clothing and textiles sector and is now coming into increased focus due to growing consumer, business and policy pressures.
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.
Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth.
This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders' perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism.
unique introduction to distribution logistics that focuses on both quantitative modeling and practical business issues Introduction to Distribution Logistics presents a complete and balanced treatment of distribution logistics by covering both applications and the required theoretical background, therefore extending its reach to practitioners and students in a range of disciplines such as management, engineering, mathematics, and statistics.
Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would ordinarily require investments of millions of dollars.
Providing a practical and accessible introduction to a complex yet essential area, Business Sustainability Framework enables readers to integrate and report on sustainability from business and accounting perspectives.
The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise.
For companies, unethical business practices like bribery and corruption pose major business risks, and can result in fines, reputational damage, lost business opportunity and - increasingly - criminal or civil charges.
Deliver unprecedented customer value and seize your competitive edge with a transformative digital supply networkDigital tech has disrupted life and business as we know it, and supply chain management is no exception.
Your one-stop reference for entering the global logistics environment Global Logistics for Dummies is an operational-level reference and overview for those manufacturers, businesses, product distributors, providers of logistics services, humanitarian and disaster relief responders and logisticians on both ends of a global chain who are considering entry in or have recently embarked on entering the global logistics chain/market.
From boycotts of plastics and palm oil by consumers, to the tracking of carbon footprints and modern slavery in their supply chains by businesses, buying ethically has now fully captured the public interest.
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance.
