Sustainable Operations Management

Andrea Chiarini is managing director at Chiarini & Associates, a European consulting firm that specializes in Business Management, and Visiting Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He earned a PhD and a Master of Arts from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and he also gained a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Bologna University, Italy. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality. Andrea Chiarini is Editor-in-Chief of the series "Measuring Operations Performance", published by Springer. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals "The TQM Journal", "Leadership in Health Services", and "SOP Transactions on Economic Research".

• Marketing strategy, strategic planning and corporate social responsibility: an exploratory research.- Sustainable knowledge management and the outsourcing of core competences-Does that fit together? Initial insights from a literature review.- The role of culture in a sustainable built environment.- The management of environmental performance in the supply chain: an overview.- The measurement of environmental performance in hospitals: a systematic review of literature.- How does innovativeness foster sustainable supply chain management?.- Sustainable manufacturing: the lean and green business model.- Sustainability through eco-design: shedding light on the adoption of the ISO 14006 standard.- Early adoption of ISO 50001 standard: an empirical study.- Sustainability in Iran’s road transport sector: evaluating strategies and policies.