The diversity of perspectives on ISO standards is diverse and scattered around a broad collection of journals, making it near-impossible to get an overview of what we do and don't know about the standards. This title offers an integrated perspective on the entire body of academic literature related to ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and related standards.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.
As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities...