Responding to rising concerns about environmental sustainability, governments around the world have committed to the promotion of more sustainable consumption patterns. Mainstream approaches to promoting sustainable consumption often involve government interventions: to correct prices, and to provide regulatory frameworks to influence producers to become more eco-efficient. Unfortunately, the s...

Despite increasing business interest in sustainability general and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), the ability to increase suppliers’ ecological social performance is generally insufficient for many companies. In this study, we outline an implementation process model management. We do so by synthesizing insights from a review of organizational learning literature case study with com...

The purpose of study was to identify the main approaches formation an industry solution related design effective supply chains and aimed at increasing visibility constraints bottlenecks, as well prevent unwanted blockages in logistics process. work uses general scientific methods research based on economic methodological developments field transdisciplinary analysis modern logistics. necessity ...

Designing the right supply chain that meets the requirements of sustainable development is a significant challenge. Although there are a considerable number of studies on issues relating to sustainable supply chain design (SSCD) in terms of designing the practices, processes, and structures, they have rarely demonstrated how these components can be aligned to form an effective sustainable suppl...

Urban logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental objectives. However, most actions are started by public authorities without taking into account the impacts of the new organizational schemas in the existing distribution enterprises’ organization. This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for urban green logistics planning and e...

In this paper, we show how sustainable supply chains can be transformed into and studied as transportation networks. Specifically, we develop a new supply chain model in which the manufacturers can produce the homogeneous product in different manufacturing plants with associated distinct environmental emissions. We assume that the manufacturers, the retailers with which they transact, as well a...

How to achieve sustainable supply chain performance has remained a complex challenge. Full commitment to process orientation and process management is required. Cultures of bureaucratic organisations do not allow for strategic supply chain management, and the challenge is for them to transform to learning organisation paradigms and structures. The author advocates the effective utilisation of t...

Sustainability has gained growing interests among both practitioners and academics with the environment that we are living in deteriorates. With the consumers’ advocate towards sustainability, companies nowadays are also trying to integrate the theme into theirs business operations thus developing sustainable organization capabilities that helps them to compete in the business world. The thesis...

Environmental consciousness has become critical in the design and operations management. In recent years, the sort of issues that have come to light and drawn the attention of managers has extended staggeringly. Sustainable development is a significant component of growing interest for managers who have to address with social and environmental issues related to the own company as well as their ...

The emergence of sustainability paradigm has influenced many research disciplines including supply chain management. It has drawn the attention of manufacturing companies’ CEOs to incorporate sustainability in their supply chain and manufacturing activities. Supplier selection problem, as one of the main problems in supply chain activities, is also combined with sustainable development where tr...