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Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice

Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice
Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehmood Khan (Abu Dhabi University, UAE), Matloub Hussain (Abu Dhabi University, UAE)and Mian M. Ajmal (Abu Dhabi University, UAE)
Copyright: ©2017
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0635-5
ISBN13: 9781522506355
ISBN10: 1522506357
EISBN13: 9781522506362

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Description

The issue of sustainability has become a vital discussion in many industries within the public and private sectors. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to re-design their operations more effectively.

Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice examines the challenges and benefits of implementing sustainability into the core functions of contemporary enterprises, focusing on how green approaches improve operations in an ecological way. Highlighting key concepts, emerging innovations, and future directions, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, managers, educators, and upper-level students.



Reviews and Testimonials

Editors Khan, Hussain, and Ajmal present readers with a collection of academic and professional perspectives on the challenges and benefits of implementing sustainable practices into existing supply chain management strategies. The editors have organized the nine selections that make up the main body of the text in three parts devoted to an introduction to sustainable supply chain management, measuring the performance of a sustainable supply chain, and the future of sustainable supply chains.

– Protoview Reviews

The chapters do well to summarize the material, which can be quite technical at times, and draw conclusions. Essays make generous use of paragraph headings, and may employ charts, tables, key terms and definitions, and more to guide readers. Numerous references are found at the end of each chapter as well as in a compilation at the end of the volume. [...] compelling to environmentalists, researchers, business leaders, innovators, and many others

– American Reference Books Annual
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