This book presents the latest decision making tools, techniques, and insightful solutions that decision makers utilize to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of...

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry. Readers will find a variety of...

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes erforschen, diskutieren und validieren den Einsatz zukunftsorientierter Produktionsmethoden zur Gestaltung nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke. Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender globaler Umweltrisiken und sozialer Disparitäten ist die Konzeption...

PART I: Background and Concept -- 1. Innovative Environmental Management Tools For the Agri-Food Chain -- PART II: Integrated Management Systems (IMS) -- 2. The Integration of Quality Management and Environmental Management Systems -- 3. A Model of Integrated Management System for Agri-Food...

shared.value.chain: Profitable growth through sustainable value creation -- BEIERSDORF: Generating joint added value through collaboration, planning and evaluation -- FAIRPHONE: Sustainability from the inside-out and outside-in -- SAP AG & StarShea Limited (Ghana): sustainable value creation...

Introduction: public value and private organizations -- Collaboration and trust-building among public and private actors -- Labeling, certification, and consumer trust -- Privacy, secrecy, and system security -- Strategies for collaborative governance -- Collaborative standards and hard law --...

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...

This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially.This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management today.Our definition of sustainable...

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers’ noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards. In so doing, it represents an important addition to the...