Business Value and Sustainability An Integrated Supply Network Persp
This book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green produ
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BUSINESS VALUE AND SUSTAINABILITY An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
Business Value and Sustainability
Ki-Hoon Lee • Stephan Vachon
Business Value and Sustainability An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
Ki-Hoon Lee Griffith Business School, Griffith Univesity Brisbane, Australia
Stephan Vachon Ivey Business School, Western University London, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-1-137-43574-3 ISBN 978-1-137-43576-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-43576-7
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Foreword
Improving sustainability is increasingly important as a global vision and a guiding principle for responsible companies. Businesses have both an enormous undesired impact on global environmental and social issues as well as significant power and abilities to directly and indirectly create environmental and social solutions. As a consequence, pursuing sustainable development induces both serious challenges as well as significant opportunities for businesses. These opportunities and challenges are to a large extent not given or external but depend on how management deals with sustainability topics. Improving eco-efficiency, either as energy efficiency, material efficiency or resource efficiency, has gained a lot of attention as an approach to improve corporate practices by ‘doing the same with less’ or ‘doing more with the same’. Also consistency approaches, focusing on the exchange of toxic, persistent and accumulative materials through biodegradable and less problematic materials, as well as the organization of circular systems like cl
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