The importance of socially responsible strategic planning

Tactical and operational planning for socially responsible fresh agricultural supply chain

Addressing an integrated decision-making structure for planting and harvesting scheduling may lead to more realistic, accurate, and efficient decision in fresh product supply chain. This study aims to develop an integrated bi-objective tactical and operational planning model for producing and distributing fresh crops. The first objective of the model is to maximize total revenue of supply chain...

Strategic Best Practice - Importance of Planning Comprehensiveness

Leaving Light Footprints – the Importance of Promoting Responsible International Travel

Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthca...

Socially responsible investing.

Over the last few decades the movement of Socially Responsibly Investing (SRI) has been afoot that started almost as an anti-establishment reaction, but has morphed into mainstream consciousness and focus. It has become clear that one can go beyond the subjective implications of engaging in enterprises that produce dangerous, unhealthy or immoral products. There are many processes that optimize...

The wicked problem of socially responsible innovation.

O ne of the goals of our article on the DNA of Socially Responsible Innovation (SRI) was to start a discussion on how to implement SRI in research and development (R&D). We are therefore grateful for the contribution by Dove and Özdemir; we feel that exactly such dialogue is necessary to advance innovation to the next level. We acknowledge that the “ecosystem” of science, technology and society...