Green innovation has been deemed a key corporate capability to deal with environmental issues. The usage of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) provides important resources and knowledge for firms’ green innovation. Drawing on a resources-based approach, this study contributes to the existing literature by examining how the adoption of specific types of AMT (process, design, and planning)...

As a developing country, economic and environmental performance has to be balanced in china. Green supply chain management (GSCM) is emerging to be an important approach for Chinese enterprises to improve performance, possibly on both dimensions. Based upon a database of over 128 manufacturing facilities in china, this paper explored performance measurement for GSCM. The results showed that GSC...

Let G be a finite group, and R be a commutative ring. This note proposes a generalization to any Green functor for G over R of the construction of the Hochschild cohomology ring HH∗(G,R) from the ordinary cohomology functor H∗(−, R). Another special case is the construction of the crossed Burnside ring of G from the ordinary Burnside functor. The general abstract setting is the following : let ...

Green electricity (GE) has emerged as one of the most interesting instruments for promoting renewable electricity in liberalized markets, at least in theory. Indeed, some experiences have already been carried out, mostly in the U.S. and Europe. However, most of them have been largely unsuccessful. In this chapter, we look at previous surveys and studies carried out on customer response, and pro...

Green retrofits, which improve the environment and energy efficiency of buildings, are considered a potential solution for reducing energy consumption as well as improving human health and productivity. They represent some of the riskiest, most complex, and most uncertain projects to manage. As the foundation of project management, critical success factors (CSFs) have been emphasized by previou...

Facing the relative lag of forest ecosystem service and estimation in China, this paper proposed to quickly carry out the research on the evaluation of forest ecosystem service. On the basis of the classification of forest ecosystem types in China, the service of artificial and semi-artificial forest ecosystems was investigated, which was divided into eight types, i.e., timber and other product...

For a reliable fully-relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method, an accurate solution of the underlying single-site scattering problem is necessary. We present an extensive discussion on numerical solutions of the related differential equations by means of standard methods for a direct solution and by means of integral equations. Our implementation is tested and exemplarily demon...

Green’s Theorem is another higher dimensional analogue of the fundamental theorem of calculus: it relates the line integral of a vector field around a plane curve to a double integral of “the derivative” of the vector field in the interior of the curve. It admits two different but completely equivalent formulations, a “flux” version for normal line integrals and a “circulation” version for tang...

A visit to Bristol is for me always a delightful experience, even when the pleasure is somewhat tempered by the responsibility of having to talk for a short time to such a distinguished audience as that I see before me today. When I come to Bristol I feel I am entering a city with all the qualities of an old capital of the west country. Its history goes back into the distant past, and the story...