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Éthique et développement durable dans les PME camerounaises

Eloundou, Gilles Célestin Etoundi - In: Mondes en développement n° 168 (2014) 4, pp. 27-41

</titre> The purpose of this paper was to question the relationship between ethics and sustainable development in Cameroonian SMEs. To do this, a case study was conducted in three SMEs to emphasize the relationships and interrelationships between the two concepts. The in-depth study conducted...

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Characterizing the sustainability problem in an exhaustible resource model

Mitra, Tapan; Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang; … - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 5, pp. 2164-2182

We provide a general condition under which consumption can be sustained indefinitely bounded away from zero in the continuous time Dasgupta–Heal–Solow–Stiglitz model, by letting augmentable capital substitute for a non-renewable resource. The assumptions made on the production function are...

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Biorenewable fuels at the intersection of product and process flexibility: A novel modeling approach and application

Correll, David; Suzuki, Yoshinori; Martens, Bobby - In: International Journal of Production Economics 150 (2014) C, pp. 1-8

In recent years, governments, industry and academia have all invested increasing amounts of time, effort and resources into the production of biorenewable fuels. This interest owes, among other reasons, to our planet's growing demand for energy, depletion of fossil fuel resources and the...

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Economic and environmental assessment of reusable plastic containers: A food catering supply chain case study

Accorsi, Riccardo; Cascini, Alessandro; Cholette, Susan; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 152 (2014) C, pp. 88-101

Increasing concern for sustainability compels citizens and enterprises to reduce waste and encourage recycling, reuse …

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Pricing and quality decisions and financial incentives for sustainable product design with recycled material content under price leadership

Chen, Chialin; Liu, Lucy Qian - In: International Journal of Production Economics 147 (2014) PC, pp. 666-677

practices for achieving sustainability. The success or failure of such a practice, however, depends heavily on the financial …

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Modelling food logistics networks with emission considerations: The case of an international beef supply chain

Soysal, M.; Bloemhof-Ruwaard, J.M.; van der Vorst, J.G.A.J. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 152 (2014) C, pp. 57-70

Intrinsic characteristics of food products and processes along with growing sustainability concerns lead to the need …

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Sustainable supply chain management: A case study of British Aerospace (BAe) Systems

Gopalakrishnan, Kavitha; Yusuf, Yahaya Y.; Musa, Ahmed; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 140 (2012) 1, pp. 193-203

Sustainability is viewed as possessing environmental, economic and social dimensions. The sustainability approaches … of sustainability are collectively termed the “triple bottom line” or 3BL. The idea of a triple bottom line, which … through sustainability. The environmental dimension involves factors relating to climate change, global warming, air, land and …

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Intergenerational externalities, sustainability and welfare—The ambiguous effect of optimal policies on resource depletion

Valente, Simone - In: Resource and Energy Economics 33 (2011) 4, pp. 995-1014

. Implementing the utilitarian optimum likely induces sustainability via increased knowledge formation, but resource depletion may be …

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Socially responsible investment in an environmental overlapping generations model

Dam, Lammertjan - In: Resource and Energy Economics 33 (2011) 4, pp. 1015-1027

One of the problems associated with the conservation of the environment is that short-lived individuals fail to account for the long-term effects of pollution, which implies that future generations bear the costs imposed by the current generation. Such inter-generational externalities are...

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Environmental poverty, a decomposed environmental Kuznets curve, and alternatives: Sustainability lessons from China

Liu, Lee - In: Ecological Economics 73 (2012) C, pp. 86-92

Amid increasing recognition of the importance of the environmental factor in understanding poverty and development, this article coins the term “environmental poverty” to refer to the lack of the healthy environment needed for society's survival and development as a direct result of...

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