商品詳細

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations. The underlying concept is explained from two perspectives-organizational level and policy level. In the former, all principles, techniques, and decision-making issues relevant to sustainability at unit level, management of product recovery processes, and sustainability at integrated level are captured. Content on policy-level perspective includes policies, norms, guidelines, and regulatory measures both at global and national levels. The primary goal of this book is the creation of an integrated and value-rich platform for the initiation and management of sustainable operations.

Features:

• This book offers a comprehensive overview of environmental sustainability from the operations and supply chain perspective
• This book proposes an understandable and innovative viewpoint in explaining sustainable operations management comprehensively as managing operations sustainably at organizational level
• Readers will learn the concepts, techniques, and the core factors relating to managing operations, keeping in view various dimensions of sustainability and the macro-level guidelines, norms, regulatory measures, and the like in this context
• This book adds to the knowledge on design, planning, and management of sustainable operations, including the specific management approaches
• This book includes summary and review questions at the end of each chapter

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in industrial, production, and mechanical engineering, including operations management. It is also recommended as a textbook for courses such as sustainable development, sustainable operations management, and environmental management.