Jens Clausen - Böcker

Das Buch liefert eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Grundlage zur Bewertung der Umweltleistung von Unternehmen und einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensfuhrung. Die Autoren legen den Schwerpunkt auf den Management-Bezug und bieten einen detailliert ausgearbeiteten und getesteten Kriterienkatalog zur Planung und Kontrolle nachhaltiger Umweltleistung.

The environmental performance of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) is an area of major policy concern. Environmental Performance in Small and Medium Sized Companies reports on factors influencing the environmental performance of SMEs across four European countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. While there are a range of factors that are expected to influence the implementation of clean technology, this book focuses on three key hypotheses, namely firm competitiveness, culture and the use and availability of information and advice. In addition, a range of other factors likely to promote or constrain the adoption of clean technology is considered. The report is remarkably realistic because it is based on in-depth interviews in 300 SMEs and an additional postal survey with more than 800 replies. The EU firms surveyed span wide variations in environmental policy stringency, firm capability and markets served.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO '95, held in Copenhagen in May 1995 under the sponsorship of the Mathematical Programming Society.Integer programming and combinatorial optimization provide a fruitful theoretical and algorithmic basis for the solution of a number of optimization problems occuring in real-world situations, such as production planning and scheduling, routing, crew scheduling, or network construction. This volume presents 36 revised papers selected from a total of 105 submissions and offers a representative up-to-date snapshot on the state of the art in this interdisciplinary area of research and applications.

Facing the challenges of globalization and ecology, the standards for economic, social and environmental performance of companies are becoming more demanding. This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. The book stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management tools and has to be supported by an intelligent system of environmental regulation, that is, promoting innovation and eco-efficiency. Experts with many years of practical experience share their know-how on how to achieve excellency in environmental performance and present concrete steps towards a sustainable company.

1. 1 Aims and Objectives The major aim of this research is to identify and weigh the importance of factors that promote and constrain, the adoption of environmental initiatives by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The objective is to inform how policy can overcome obstacles so as to promote the adoption of cleaner technology (includ­ ing environmentally sensitive products (Oosterhuis et al. 1996)) by industry. Cen­ tral to the research is the testing of a set of hypotheses, which, inter alia, relate the adoption of cleaner technologies to competitiveness, management culture and the importance of the provision of information. The manufacturing sectors consid­ ered are those dominated by SMEs where product and process environmental re­ sponse by the firm is important. Of these sectors, furniture, textile finishing, and fruit and vegetable processing were chosen. More specifically the focus is on European SMEs i. e. those employing less than 250 employees. ' Variations within the EU with respect to environmental regulation are exemplified by a study of firms (and plants) across four member states: Germany, North-east Italy, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The adoption of clean technologies has been slow and uneven and action has mainly involved good housekeeping. Major changes involving large capital spend­ ing, or material substitution, process redesign or reformulation have been rela­ tively rare (OECD 1985, 1995; Ashford 1993). The problem is particularly acute amongst SMEs (and the majority of enterprises are SMEs; e. g.

Mit Blick auf einen nachhaltigen Konsum eröffnen elektronische Auktionsmärkte und Handelsplattformen neue Spielräume. Chancen zur Erschließung bisher nicht genutzter Umweltentlastungspotenziale bestehen bei der Weiterentwicklung internetgestützter Gebrauchtwarenmärkte. Dieses Potenzial beruht im Wesentlichen auf der Chance, durch Vermarktung gebrauchter Güter die Lebens- und Nutzungsphase von Produkten zu verlängern und so zusätzliche Umweltbelastungen durch Neuanschaffungen zu vermeiden. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersuchte das Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung, das Borderstep Institut für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit und die Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main in einem Forschungsprojekt Konsumprozesse am Beispiel von eBay, der weltgrößten Handelsplattform für Gebrauchtgüter. In einer breit angelegten Online-Befragung wurden das Kauf- und Verkaufsverhalten auf elektronischen Plattformen, die Motivationen sowie die mit dem Online-Handel verbundenen Umweltauswirkungen erhoben und erforscht. Die empirische, die in diesem Band vorgestellt werden, zeigen erstmals in sehr umfassender Weise die ökologischen Auswirkungen und Chancen des Online-Handels mit Gebrauchtgütern.

Facing the challenges of globalization and ecology, the standards for economic, social and environmental performance of companies are becoming more demanding. This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. The book stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management tools and has to be supported by an intelligent system of environmental regulation, that is, promoting innovation and eco-efficiency. Experts with many years of practical experience share their know-how on how to achieve excellency in environmental performance and present concrete steps towards a sustainable company.

Fragen des betrieblichen Umweltschutzes haben in den letzten Jahren weltweit an Bedeutung gewonnen. In Abhängigkeit der jeweiligen nationalen Managementkultur und der umweltpolitischen Rahmenbedingungen werden seither in verschiedenen Ländern zukunftsweisende Instrumente und Ansätze des Umweltmanagements entwickelt und praktiziert. Die Autoren gehen hier jedoch über die in thematisch ähnlich gelagerten Büchern übliche Beschreibung des Ist-Zustandes hinaus und stellen von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ausgehend, innovative Strategien bzw. Konzepte für ein nachhaltiges Wirtschaften vor. Dabei kommen Beispiele aus verschiedenen Ländern zur Sprache (USA, Japan, Großbritannien, Niederlande, Deutschland, Finnland, Norwegen, Schweiz und Brasilien).