The growing awareness of the importance of sustainability motivates companies to engage in sustainability practices. However, practising sustainability is challenging since most initiatives are interorganisational in nature. The implementation depends heavily on the capability of multiple organisations within the supply chain, which are not easily assessed. Although a few scholars have proposed...

In discussing the relationship between food and sustainability, three main points must be made. First, food is fundamental to sustainability. For a long time food has operated in the shadows of energy, LEED construction, and other physical aspects of sustainability. In reality, however, one cannot have sustainability without addressing food and agriculture. Second, food cannot be dealt with in ...

We synthesize a new longitudinal framework for investing in IT assets to support sustainability and to prescribe specific investments for each stage of sustainability. This framework provides an IT investment plan for organizations that supports the five stages of sustainability and will positively moderate the relationship between an organization’s ability to traverse the stages of sustainabil...

Conventional supply chain management (SCM) considered only three stages: pre-manufacture, manufacture and use, while the present enterprises and specially the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) need to consider the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) for competitive and stability in the market. It means this chain have to consider from birth to death of the products or services. S...

Good manufacturing practice (GMP) is applied to the manufacture of immunological veterinary medicinal products (IVMPs) in a number of regions around the world. Within the European Union (EU) there are well-established requirements for GMP in the manufacture of IVMPs. Maintaining GMP when producing IVMPs is important because there are particular risks associated with their manufacture. These ris...

In public planning processes for sustainable urban development, planners and experts often face the challenge of engaging a public that is not familiar with sustainability principles or does not subscribe to sustainability values. Although there are calls to build the public’s sustainability literacy through social learning, such efforts require sufficient time and other resources that are not ...

Many current sustainability considerations in industry constrain design space by emphasizing reduced material and energy flows across product life cycles. However, there are also opportunities for sustainability awareness to extend design space and drive innovation. Product-service systems (PSS) in particular can be a vehicle through which sustainability-driven innovation occurs. A framework fo...