Green and Lean Management
This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition. It covers the synergetic effects, how re-use, recycling, waste reduction,
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Carolina Machado J. Paulo Davim Editors
Green and Lean Management
Management and Industrial Engineering Series editor J. Paulo Davim, Aveiro, Portugal
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Editors Carolina Machado Department of Management, School of Economics and Management University of Minho Braga Portugal
J. Paulo Davim Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Aveiro Aveiro Portugal
ISSN 2365-0532 ISSN 2365-0540 (electronic) Management and Industrial Engineering ISBN 978-3-319-44907-4 ISBN 978-3-319-44909-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44909-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949593 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The book titled “Green and Lean Management” covers the issues related to green and lean management in a context where organizations are facing, day after day, high challenges in what concerns the items related to the reuse, recycling, waste reduction, add value, low costs and time of production, sustainable behavior, among others, not only in an environmental perspective but also, and more and more frequently, in an organizational perspective. Today’s organizations no longer can develop their practices based on the existent paradigms. On the contrary, it is necessary a completely break of these paradigms, walking to a total change of mentalities in the way how we manage the different organizational activities. Taking into account, this reality lean management appears as a management philosophy focused in productivity improvement in order to create value to the organization and their different stakeholders through waste reduction. U
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