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Multimodal transportation, logistics, and the environment: managing interactions in a global economy
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In this article, a proactive management of environmental issues requires corporations to identify the interactions among transportation activities that have negative environmental impacts, the types of environmental impacts emanating from transportation operations and facilities, and alternative means of controlling and preventing environmental pollution and natural resource degradation.About:
This article is published in European Management Journal.The article was published on 2000-08-01. It has received 155 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental pollution & Supply chain management.read more
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Sustainability of manufacturing and services: Investigations for research and applications
TL;DR: Sustainable business development (SBD) in manufacturing and services (M&S) has become a crucial issue in recent years owing to the impact of global warming, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes, and carbon footprint awareness, to site but a few causes as mentioned in this paper.
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Corporate responsibility: A review of international management research from 1998 to 2007
Carolyn P. Egri,David A. Ralston +1 more
TL;DR: A review of corporate responsibility research in International Management journals during the past decade identified 321 articles of interest as discussed by the authors and bibliographically referenced these articles to provide a foundation for future research in this arena.
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An empirical study on logistics service providers' intention to adopt green innovations
Chieh-Yu Lin,Yi-Hui Ho +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined six factors that will influence the intention to adopt green innovations for logistics service providers, including technological, organizational and environmental dimensions, and found that explicitness and accumulation of green practices, organizational encouragement, quality of human resources, environmental uncertainty and governmental supports exhibit significant influences on the willingness to adopt Green practices.
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Modeling of biomass-to-energy supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research directions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive review and classification of the excising literature in modeling of biomass supply chain operations while linking them to the wider strategic challenges and issues with the design, planning and management of the biomass supply chains.
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Environmental sustainability in the service industry of transportation and logistics service providers: Systematic literature review and research directions
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review on the subject of environmental sustainability in the service industry of logistics service providers (LSPs) is presented to analyse the advances of the literature on the topic and pick out appropriate research questions to investigate.
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Proactive corporate environmental management: A new industrial revolution
TL;DR: The trend toward proactive environmental management is being accelerated by public pressures on governments almost everywhere to assure a cleaner environment as mentioned in this paper. But more importantly, there is growing evidence that firms that adopt proactive Environmental management strategies become more efficient and competitive.
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The Green Supply Chain: Integrating Suppliers into Environmental Management Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the role of purchasing and supply chain management in improving the environmental performance of an organization is discussed and case studies are discussed and a set of generic guidelines regarding the role in environmental management are presented.
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Enterprise Logistics in the Information Era
Noel P. Grets,John D. Kasarda +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an information-rich environment for the extended enterprise in which transportation and manufacturing activities are fully integrated into a new product delivery process, in much the same way that mass production is organized around economies of scale.
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Innovative Infrastructure for Agile Manufacturers
TL;DR: The Global TransPark in North Carolina as mentioned in this paper is an example of such a system, which has fully integrated air, rail, highway, and sea transportation systems, as well as telecommunication and state-of-the-art electronic data interchange technologies to support manufacturers' logistical requirements.
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