Marketing strategy, strategic planning and corporate social responsibility: an exploratory research -- Sustainable knowledge management and the outsourcing of core competences-Does that fit together? Initial insights from a literature review -- The role of culture in a sustainable built...

This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science. The book is divided into three parts: basic concepts, advanced concepts and applications. Written by the most respected specialists in the field and thoroughly reviewed by the editors, it...

Part I: Reviews and Discussions -- Reverse Logistics of US Carpet Recycling -- Green Brand Strategies in the Fashion Industry: Leveraging Connections of the Consumer, Brand, and Environmental Sustainability -- Impacts of Social Media Mediated Electronic Words of Mouth on Young Consumers’...

Introduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- Production Possibility Set and Efficiency -- Multiple Objective Linear Programming -- Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming -- Incorporating Preference Information to Data Envelopment Analysis -- Value...

Part I: Advanced Tutorials -- Supporting Time-Critical Decision Making with Real Time Simulations -- Metamodel-based Robust Simulation-Optimization: An Overview -- Simulation-Based Modelling of a Stochastic Equilibrium -- Part II: Uncertainty Management Using Sequential Parameter Optimization --...

Introduction -- Basic Multi-Item, Single-Location Inventory Model -- Multiple Machine Types with Commonality -- Service Differentiation -- Multi-Location System with Lateral Transshipments -- Two-Echelon System -- Multi-Echelon, Multi-Indenture System -- Static Repair Priorities.