Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

In this book, John Arthur and Louise Moody introduce the concept of the reasoning chain, a new approach to risk-based reasoning systems in large, complex and distributed organisations.

Adoption and use of a contract scorecard demonstrates a maturing ability to manage commercial outsourcing arrangements.

The business world finds itself in a state of transition, driven in tandem by the strategies of digitalization and sustainable development.

Navigate a continually evolving global risk landscape and react to new logistical challenges effectively with this vital guide on supply chain risk.

This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis.

This book is an essential resource for facilitators seeking to help students develop their knowledge of management practice in Italy.

The 2020s present a decade of unprecedented disruption.

Learn how to measure, manage and account for sustainability in your business in clear, simple and feasible steps.

Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama is the result of two decades of research and dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other leaders in business, government, science and education.

Sustainable Finance Fundamentals provides an accessible overview of this critical, rapidly growing area at the intersection of finance and sustainability.

This book provides a coherent and systematic view of the key concepts, principles, and techniques in maritime container transport and logistics chains including all the main segments: international maritime trade and logistics, freight logistics, container logistics, vessel logistics, port and terminal management, and sustainability issues in maritime transport.

This book deals with an often-neglected feature of location problems, namely uncertainty, by combining two related fields: location theory and optimization.

Multi-actor partnerships are promoted as central to the achievement of sustainable development.

Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy.

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

This new edition emphasizes new techniques and strategies to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) through the use of innovation and management after the pandemic to show effective communication and implementation of TPM techniques.

By and large, corporations of the 21st century have come to realise that their obligations to societies in terms of corporate social responsibility are fourfold: economic, ethical, altruistic and strategic.

Sustainability can create greater efficiency and cost savings in the supply chain.

Contract manufacturing has become a cornerstone of global supply chains since the first wave of production outsourcing.

Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector.

The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike.

The market for green products has expanded rapidly over the last decade, but most consumers need something more than eco-benefits to motivate their purchases.

This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS) as applied to sustainability.

This book is a compilation of some of the best papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management in 2021.

Learn how to green your business with the help of one of the UK's leading corporate activists.

This book offers comprehensive insights into the latest developments in biodiversity, sustainability, and agri-food supply chains, fostering an informed approach to policymaking decisions in the agriculture and agri-food industry within the global economy.

Outsourcing has increased and developed immensely in scope, sophistication and ambition over the last twenty years - and continues to evolve.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

Norman Katz has secured a top spot as one of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Supply Chain 2020.

Although green innovation and technology is not new, so far very limited information is available regarding the diversified approaches for green technologies and engineering.

This book examines the new developments in health 4.

The book examines the supply chain from different perspectives: the physical structure which it is composed of (actors, roles, infrastructures and processes), the organizational structure of the people involved (business functions and related interactions and integrations), and the manifold flows that characterize it (product flows, information flows, service flows and monetary flows).

This comprehensive addition to the debate on sustainable development has been produced in order to take a global pulse on how the financial services sector is responding to the growing challenge of shareholder and stakeholder expectations on social and environmental performance.

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was not caused by BP, but by a contractor, yet BP got the blame.

La gestión moderna de inventarios contempla las diferentes modalidades que componen la estructura logística actual como factores claves de éxito y muestra cómo se convierte en una herramienta indispensable para que las empresas sean competitivas y eficientes en el entorno actual de grandes avances tecnológicos, alta competencia y mayores necesidades de satisfacción al cliente.

Why do award-winning "e;green"e; buildings so often have higher energy bills than ordinary buildings?

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) have witnessed great upheaval and change over the last decade and a half - from the global economic recession of 2008, the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti, to hurricanes that devastated islands like Jamaica, Barbuda, Dominica and The Bahamas, volcanic eruptions, and health crises.

This new edition of the seminal textbook The Economics of Urban Transportation incorporates the latest research affecting the design, implementation, pricing, and control of transport systems in towns and cities.

This book explains supply chain management (SCM) using the strategy-structure-process-performance (SSPP) framework.

This is the first book in the field of corporate social responsibility to examine the progress of a standard over a ten-year period.

In today's era of digital transformation, the logistics sector is one of the most technology-intensive industries.

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.

The global supply chain isn't what it used to be, and the COVID-19 pandemic taught us all about it.