Swiss Re, the largest property & casualty and life & health global reinsurance company has long been an advocate for environmental sustainability. According to the corporate sustainability mission statement “A company’s sustainability practice and its reputational value are increasingly...

Wlat was once the reign of a 'green' social organisational fringe, Corporate Environmental Management (CEM) has increasingly become a core business strategy. Research studies in this arena have been centred on industrialised nations, and until recently, there are still comparatively sparse...

This dissertation studies one of the newest tools in environmental policy in the developing world context – that of voluntary environmental programmes (VEPs). Developed and promoted in the past few decades by policy practitioners looking to regulate environmental pollution without saddling...

This research report focuses on the impact of environmental management systems(EMS) on the economic performance of business enterprises with respect to the threeresearch variables, namely water, energy and raw materials. A systematic samplingtechnique with a random start and the K-Value sampling...

This paper objectified to bring to light the milk industry managers’ social representations on the environmentalmanagement. For such, the systematization of a theoretic-methodological framework was adopted, whoseinterpretation shows that the environmental management, in the view of the...

Supply Chains mit hohen Absatzrisiken sind gekennzeichnet durch kurze Verkaufszyklen, einen hohen Anteil an Impulsk?ufen, eine schwer prognostizierbare Nachfrage, eine hohe zeitliche und r?umliche Verf?gbarkeit der Produkte, lange Durchlaufzeiten und eine hohe Variantenanzahl. Insbesondere...

To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...

Im gleichen Zuge, in dem sich China und Indien zu dominierenden Wirtschaftsmächten entwickeln, wird sich die Belastung des Ökosystems in regionaler und globaler Hinsicht drastisch verschärfen. So rechnet die Internationale Energieagentur (IEA) damit, dass Indien bis 2015 weltweit der...