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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...
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Corporate Codes of Conduct: Is Common Environmental Content Feasible?
Fischer, Carolyn; Parry, Ian W.H.; Aguilar, Francisco X.; … - 2005
In a developing country context, a policy to promote adoption of common environmental content for corporate codes of conduct (COCs) aspires to meaningful results on two fronts. First, adherence to COC provisions should offer economic benefits that exceed the costs of compliance; i.e., companies...
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Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in Investor Relations
Fiedler, Katja - 2007
Nachhaltigkeit und ihrer Kommunikation für die Financial Community. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, ob unternehmerische … Nachhaltigkeit trotz der Fokussierung auf Ökonomisches seitens der Financial Community wirtschaftliche Relevanz hat, indem sie zur … feststellen, dass Nachhaltigkeit vor allem in instrumenteller Hinsicht für die Financial Community Wichtigkeit besitzt. Auch wenn …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Qualitativer Bewusstseins- und Verhaltenswandel im Kontext einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ??kologischen ??konomik
Sieben, Daniel - 2007
??enweltperspektive mit der Innenwelt. Daraus geht auch ein neues Verst??ndnis von Nachhaltigkeit hervor, in dem das Zusammenwirken von Innen …
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Welt im Wandel: Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit / Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Umweltveränderungen - 2003
Der WBGU zeigt, dass eine globale Energiewende unerlässlich ist, um die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen der Menschheit zu schützen und die Energiearmut in den Entwicklungsländern zu beseitigen. Nur durch einen grundlegenden Umbau der Energiesysteme lässt sich eine nicht nachhaltige Entwicklung...
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