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Corporate-NGO Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Damlamian, Corinne - 2006
In the last 15 years, the trend of NGOs working in cooperation with business has developed considerably. The global community – including leaders of international governmental institutions and of the non-profit sector as well as some business leaders – has recognized the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438516
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Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Development: Perspective from the Greater Pearl River Delta (China)
Tsoi, J C S - 2006
This thesis investigates the application and implications of supply chain management as a modern management model in regulating corporate outsourcing activities within the Greater Pearl River Delta. Globalisation has accelerated the application of supply chain management as a mechanism to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465485
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Community relations management systems in the minerals industry: Combining conventional and stakeholder-driven approaches
Kemp, Deanna; Boele, Richard; Brereton, David - 2006
As part of a broader commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, major minerals companies are developing and implementing a management systems approach to community relations. While the application of management systems to community relations represents an advance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448681
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451445
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In pursuit of a sustainable supply chain: Insights from Westpac Banking Corporation
Keating, B.; Quazi, A.; Kriz, A.; Coltman, T. - 2008
The aim of this paper is to provide clues to industry and academia on how best to approach the challenge of developing a sustainable supply chain. A case study was undertaken of the Westpac Banking Corporation – one of the world's most socially responsible banks – to examine how they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457345
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Solid waste reduction management with special reference to developing countries
Human, Etienne Hugo - 2005
Sustainable development and the Triple Bottom Line integrated sustainability concept focus on the choices between the imperatives of economic efficiency, social development and environmentalsustainability. Corporate governance is being imposed by stakeholders and corporate socialresponsibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457781
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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries
Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008
This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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New Zealand's perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development
Frederick, Howard; Monsen, Erik - 2011
Applying a grounded-theory approach to analyzing the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, we attempt to explain … why New Zealand exhibits only a moderate level of economic development despite its high level of entrepreneurship. By … curvilinear relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development, we develop a better understanding of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483886
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Entrepreneurship and economic growth : why is New Zealand an outlier? A preliminary analysis
Frederick, Howard - 2005
The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent … entrepreneurship rates for 45 countries over the 2000-2004 period as well as variables from standardised national statistics. The paper …
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