Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the current state of sustainability efforts within the field of … sustainable logistics operations. Design/methodology/approach – The reasons why it is important to implement sustainability into … where sustainability can be implemented are then presented. Some short‐term and long‐term recommendations for the successful …

sustainability research in the real estate sector has focused on green buildings in the area of new construction, and economical and …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out the green preferences of corporate occupiers in relation to their …. The importance of nine given green attributes of the office buildings were ranked on a five‐point Likert scale. A total of …

Purpose – The theory of planned behavior (TPB) served as a framework for identifying major antecedents of everyday … green purchasing behavior and for determining their relative importance. Design/methodology/approach – The German market … the strongest predictor of green purchasing behavior, followed by personal norms. The impact of attitude is insignificant …

sustainability and corporate social responsibility continues to grow. Past research has hinted at relationships between these two … areas – suggesting that “lean is green” (e.g. Florida, 1996). The lean mantra of waste reduction and “doing more with less …). Almost all research linking lean operations or lean supply chains to sustainability issues have focused exclusively on …

case for considering a green building for their new construction projects. A green building, for the purposes of this paper …, refers to any building that meets the high standards set forth in the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in … Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™, the pre‐eminent metric system by which new buildings …

upcoming Green Paradigm. Existing research indicates the uprising of Green Paradigm through emergence of Green products and … research and management education, which needs to be looked from a long range to support Green Paradigm. This finding is … research rankings, 2011. It is quite possible that there are other journals that focus more heavily on green perspective …

operations meet a wide range of sustainability outcomes beyond environmental benefits (including supply monitoring, transparency …-based theoretical model of lean-sustainability. Further, it is proposed that lean implementation and sustainability performance are in …

Abstract Many people consider Adam Smith the first economist to describe the functioning of capitalism. In fact, Smith … must be considered less the discoverer of capitalism, but rather as its inventor. The economic laws Smith formulated are …

markets, which balances benefits and a narrow definition of costs. I then introduce a richer normative theory that considers … costs associated with rent seeking, design and implementation, and raising revenues. The richer theory suggests that the … theory provides guidance on the setting of socially optimal taxes and subsidies. I then explore how the theory needs to be …