Dieses Buch zeigt in klaren Schritten den Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer. Ob als einzelner Existenzgründer oder als Start-up-Team - an einer gründlichen Vorbereitung des Unternehmenskonzepts geht kein Weg vorbei. Beginnend mit dem Wunsch nach Selbstständigkeit und/oder einer Geschäftsidee...

Andrea Hafenstein untersucht die Einflussfaktoren auf die Verwendung von Nachhaltigkeitsinformationen und die Entscheidung von Anlegern, in nachhaltige Unternehmen zu investieren. Zudem analysiert sie, ob eine Unterteilung von Nachhaltigkeitsinformationen in ökologische, soziale und governance...

One of the main novelties of this book is its establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice on one hand and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other. This relationship leads to the new concept of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE). SMCE is proposed as a...

Services and the Green Economy addresses a significant gap in the knowledge and understanding of sustainable economic development. Bringing together a range of expert contributions the book analyses the role of services and service industries in the transition to a greener economy. Framed by an...

This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation from a ‘brown’ to ‘green’...

This book examines the state of the art in green transportation logistics from the perspective of balancing environmental performance in the transportation supply chain while also satisfying traditional economic performance criteria. Part of the book is drawn from the recently completed European...

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, which affects the development and application of environmental accounting and reporting, as a basis...

This book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child...

1. Market Solutions for Climate Change -- 2. Energy Security in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 3. Asia’s Role in the Global Economic Architecture -- 4. Energy Economics in China’s Policy-Making Plan -- 5. The Economics of The Green Industrial Revolution -- 6. The Logic of Qualitative Business...

Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives -- Consumer Markets in Closed-Loop Supply Chains -- Market Behavior Torwards Remanufactured Products -- Assessing Consumers' Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments -- Profit-Driven Environmental...