While the pressure of legitimacy was found to greatly influence companies’ environmental reporting (ER) practices, being environmentally responsible however is not necessarily reflected through positive and descriptive environmental information. Unless companies begin to truly commit to...

professional paper in partial fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy degree requirement

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is used by practitioners and policy-makers to help them understand the sustainability impacts of packaging. LCA is useful because it quantifies the impact of a product throughout its life cycle, from raw materials extraction through to disposal or recovery. However,...

Eine hohe Informationsverfügbarkeit und sich schnell wandelnde Produkt- und Produktionstechnologien dominieren die Wettbewerbsumgebung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Neben der Senkung von Kosten entwickelt sich insbesondere die schnelle und individuelle Umsetzung von Kundenanforderungen in neue Produkte...

The Product Life Cycle (PLC) concept is a well-known marketing strategy and planning tool. The concept is based on a simple biological analogy of stages over a product's "life," which is intuitively appealing, but unfortunately has limited utility in practice. For such a prominent marketing...

Maximizing potential revenue and profitability performance continues to be a key objective for Direct Checks as the company’s core product - personal checks - moves through the decline stage of the product life cycle; and, the department with the most potential to positively impact the...

Due to increasing interest in sustainable development, today s engineer is often tasked with designing systems that are environmentally benign over their entire life cycles. Unfortunately, environmental assessments commonly suffer from significant uncertainty due to lack of information,...