A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefits or what has been termed "the triple bottom line." While pursuing profit, socially responsible companies should be sensitive to the environment and uphold the rights of all the firm's stakeholders. This edited volume explores leading-edge ideas -- both by academics and forward-thinking companies -- to (re)design and market products, source, manufacture, and eventually distribute and recover or dispose of them in an environmentally,...
A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefit...
Quantitative models and computer-based tools are essential for making decisions in today's business environment. These tools are of particular importance in the rapidly growing area of supply chain management. This volume is a unified effort to provide a systematic summary of the large variety of new issues being considered, the new set of models being developed, the new techniques for analysis, and the computational methods that have become available recently. The volume's objective is to provide a self-contained, sophisticated research summary - a snapshot at this point of time - in the...
Quantitative models and computer-based tools are essential for making decisions in today's business environment. These tools are of particular importa...
A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefits or what has been termed "the triple bottom line." While pursuing profit, socially responsible companies should be sensitive to the environment and uphold the rights of all the firm's stakeholders. This edited volume explores leading-edge ideas - both by academics and forward-thinking companies - to (re)design and market products, source, manufacture, and eventually distribute and recover or dispose of them in an environmentally, ecologically,...
A sustainable enterprise is one that contributes to sustainable development by simultaneously delivering economic, social and environmental benefit...