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Advancing Green Purchasing in South Korean Municipalities
Choi, Heungsuk; Kim, Hyun Joon; Jeon, H A; Elovitz, Anna; … - 2022
people in finance, procurement, public works, city planning, environmental compliance, waste management and sustainability …
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Governmentality in Accounting and Accountability : A Case Study of Embedding Sustainability in a Supply Chain
Spence, Laura J. - 2012
This paper examines how the introduction of sustainability accounting has been used by an organization as a means to … sustainability - to be constituted. The analysis is informed by the discussion of the implementation of sustainability … analytics of government. The paper provides novel empirical insights into how sustainability accounting shaped forms of power …
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Advancing Green Purchasing in Italian Municipalities
Testa, Francesco; Iraldo, Fabio; Iannone, Fabio; … - 2022
Italy was the first European country to create a full mandatory plan known as the National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement. This plan established a framework through which green purchasing polices can diffuse throughout Italian municipalities. A primary reason for this action is that...
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Advancing Green Purchasing in Mexican Municipalities
Leal, Ana Rosa; Pérez-Castillo, David; Husted, Bryan W.; … - 2022
Overall government procurement in Mexico is about $63.5 billion, making it a substantial source of the country’s total expenditures. For comparison, the total gross domestic product in Mexico is $1,220.7 billion. Increasing green purchasing in the public sector is a significant way to improve...
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An Appraisal of Constraints Faced by Tea (Camellia Sinensis) Value Chain Players during COVID-19 Crisis
Das, Abhijit; Mishra, RR - 2020
The present study aims at to identify the important stakeholders (Small tea growers, green tea leaf collector, processor, wholesaler and retailer) of the tea value chain, and constraints faced by them during the COVID-19 pandemic. All the stakeholders of the value chain faced different problem...
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The Multiplicity of International Corporate Social Responsibility Standards : Implications for Global Value Chain Governance
Fransen, Luc; Kolk, Ans; Rivera-Santos, Miguel - 2019
Purpose: This paper examines the multiplicity of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards, explaining its nature, dynamics, and implications for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and International Business (IB), especially in the context of CSR and global value chain (GVC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103527
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Equitable Allocation of Vaccines in a Supply Network
Doğan, Battal; Raghavan, Madhav - 2022
The COVAX initiative has allocated over 1.9 billion units of vaccines in a centralised framework to over 150 countries towards achieving countries’ self-reported demands. However, recipient countries are not always eligible for vaccines from all sources due to export licensing restrictions or...
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Discretion and Supplier Selection in Public Procurement
Baltrunaite, Audinga - 2018
Public procurement outcomes depend on the ability of the procuring agency to select high-performing suppliers. Should public administrations be granted more or less discretion in their decision making? Using Italian data on municipal public works tendered in the period 2009-2013, we study how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915132
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Determinants of Informal Coordination in Networked Supply Chains
Ogulin, Robert; Selen, Willem; Ashayeri, J. - 2011
Purpose – Provide insight into the determinants or constructs that enable informally networked supply chains to operate in order to achieve improved operational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on the identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187051
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Control and accountability in supply chain management : evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality
Sibanda, Modeni Mudzamba; Zindi, Beauty; Maramura, … - In: Cogent business & management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
Accountability requires supply chain management (SCM) public officials to account for, report on, explain and justify … malfeasance and promotes, integrity, transparency and accountability. The purpose of this article is to determine the SCM, risk … factors that threaten accountability and how they can be mitigated in a typical South African Metropolitan Municipality. This …
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