Charlotte Leire

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of consumer perceptions, understanding and use of product-related environmental information in the Nordic market, showing that the majority of the publications point to a great number of consumers who recognise, know and possess sufficient confidence in the main eco-labels and should therefore be able to use them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of the socially responsible purchasing process that is based on the empirical and secondary data and reveal the five elementary steps that are necessary in the implementation of systematic socially-aware purchasing practices: developing internal policies; setting purchasing criteria that regard social issues; applying assurance practices; managing supplier relations; and building internal capacity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the factors that drive or hinder organizations to implement socially responsible purchasing in Swedish organizations and find that the main barriers are a lack of resources for supplier audits, difficulties to ensure that all suppliers fulfil the code of conduct, differences in culture and management style, low levels of social standards and high levels of corruption in some countries of supply, all of which makes assurance practices a very costly enterprise.

TL;DR: In this article, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden developed a massive open online course on "Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia", which utilized existing capacities and experiences while experiencing new challenges revealed by courses of larger scale.