Sustainable Supply Chains Models, Methods, and Public Policy Implications

Sustainable Supply Chains Models, Methods, and Public Policy Implications / edited by Tonya Boone, Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, Ram Ganeshan.

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 environmen...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Boone, Tonya (Editor), Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan (Editor), Ganeshan, Ram (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 174
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Operations research.
Decision making.
Production management.
Industrial engineering.
Production engineering.
Sustainable development.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • By the Numbers: A Visual Chronicle of GHG Emmissions
  • Sustainable Supply Chains for Bio-Based Fuels and Chemicals
  • Organizing for Sustainability: Exploratory Analysis of the Healthcare Industry
  • Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System
  • From a Caged Tiger to a Sauntering Elephant: Sustainability as a Driver for Profit and Innovation in Indian IT Companies
  • LEED Certification: A Case Study
  • A Primer on e-Waste
  • Product Take-Back Legislation and Its Impact on Recycling and Remanufacturing Industries
  • Product Disposition Decisions on Closed-Loop Supply Chains
  • Product Labeling, Consumer Willingness to Pay & Supply Chain
  • Carbon Footprinting: A Supply Chain Approach
  • Making the Business Case for Sustainability Related Investments Through a Single Financial Metric
  • Incorporating Life-Cycle Economic and Environmental Factors in Managerial Decision-Making
  • Performance Measurement and Evaluation for Sustainable Supply Chains using Rough Set and Data Envelopment Analysis.

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