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section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …
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During recent years, the supply chain performance management has become a key strategic consideration. Many manufacturers seek to collaborate with their suppliers and customers in order to upgrade their competitiveness and management performance. Because of complexity, uncertainty and vagueness...
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The paper introduces new dimensions of Information Systems evaluation. Sustainability issues have increasing importance … require the monitoring and reporting of the impact of an organisation on sustainability. However, traditional IS evaluation … approaches are not able to capture the impact of IT/IS on sustainability, especially in relation to social and environmental …
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This study explores the domain of sustainability from the agribusiness perspective by establishing levels or stages of … sustainability in terms of views, actions and performance measures. In addition, it analyzes factors including firm characteristics … and internal and external stakeholders that influence a company’s sustainability initiatives. In a sample of U …
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The aim of this research is to conduct a review on the approaches used to assess different criteria on sustainability … complex sustainable assessments. A review was conducted on the present models that are used to examine sustainability within … that corporate commitment to sustainability, corporate reporting and management systems are significant predictors for …
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investigates the rationale for immediately and rigorously integrating sustainability issues into property valuation theory and … practice and proposes theoretical and practical options for valuers on how to address sustainability issues within valuation …
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In order for policy makers to plan effectively for sustainable development, there is a need for measures of welfare that consider changes in the natural capital stock. Current measures based on conventional national accounting are flawed because they are based solely on flow measures and do not...
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This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability … contributions. POS can help sustainability make a shift from addressing “deficit gaps” to instead addressing “abundance gaps ….” Sustainability can help expand the scope of the POS research domain from explaining how people and organizations can flourish, to …
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practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining … sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates … social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
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This paper examines critically some recent developments in the sustainability debate. The large number of definitions … of sustainability proposed in the 1980's have been refined into a smaller number of positions on the relevant questions … account is taken of the uncertainty involved in sustainability analysis of any sort. In addition, by focusing on a …
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