Firms that already invest in more sustainable technologies as a proactive measure against changing market dynamics, for example by converting their internal combustion vehicles to alternative fuel vehicles, are likely to gain a competitive advantage. Nevertheless, this strategy could also fail...

In this paper, we investigate the assortment planning decisions of a retailer that operates an online sales channel and a brick-and-mortar store simultaneously. We consider the impact of product returns, which is a norm in retailing but also a factor for lost profit, explicitly. Assortment...

Carbon footprinting is a tool for firms to determine the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their supply chain or with a unit of final product or service. Carbon footprinting efforts typically aim to identify where best to invest in emission reduction efforts, and/or to...

Regions with carbon emission regulations bear the risk of "carbon leakage'' if local producers shift production capacity to an unregulated region. We investigate the problem for a producer subject to geographically asymmetric emission regulation with uncertain future emission price. The producer...

Sustainability is not a one-player task. Organizations have started to realize that their supply chains have a significant social and environmental impact, usually greater than their own operations, and managing sustainability at suppliers is crucial for supply chain-wide sustainability....