1st Edition

Sustainable Operations Management Key Practices and Cases

200 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Sustainable Operations Management applies the issues of sustainability to all strategic decisions of operations: capacity management, supply network, process technology, and development and organisation. This book extends the existing literature of operations management that for years has been paramount in creating economic value with little consideration of environment and social dimensions.... Read more

Table of Contents

Part 1: Setting the scene

Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainable Operations Management

Chapter 2: Towards a Circular Economy

Chapter 3: Sustainable Operations Strategy

Part 2: Sustainable Operations Management Practices

Chapter 4: Sustainable Facilities

Chapter 5: Sustainable Supply Chains

Chapter 6: Sustainable Production

Chapter 7: Process Technologies for Sustainable Operations

Chapter 8: Sustainable Design and Product Development

Part 3: Cases on Sustainable Operations Management

Chapter 9: Sustainable Operations Management in the Automotive Industry (Part A and B)

Chapter 10: Natura Brasil – Building Sustainability Leadership in the Cosmetics Industry

Biography

Breno Nunes is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Operations Management and Deputy-director of the Centre for Circular Economy and Advanced Sustainability at Aston Business School, UK. He is currently President of IAMOT - the International Association for Management of Technology. Breno has published his research in high-impact journals and delivered several keynotes worldwide on SOM and related topics.

Luciano Batista is Director of the Centre for Circular Economy and Advanced Sustainability (CEAS) at Aston Business School, UK. He is also Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and affiliated faculty member of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness group at Harvard Business School, USA.

Donato Masi is Deputy-director of the Centre of Cybersecurity Innovation at Aston Business School, UK, and Reader in Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Operations and Information Department.

David Bennett is Affiliated Professor at Chalmers University, Sweden, and Emeritus Professor at Aston University, UK. David’s research interests are concerned with issues relating to management of technology, operations systems design for manufacturing, and the transfer of technology between industrialised and developing countries.