This book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations. The underlying concept is explained from two perspectives—organizational level and policy level. In the former, all principles, techniques, and decision-making issues relevant to sustainability at unit level, management of product recovery processes, and sustainability at integrated level are captured. Content on policy-level perspective includes policies, norms, guidelines, and regulatory measures both at global and national levels. The primary goal of this book is the creation of an integrated and value-rich platform for the initiation and management of sustainable operations.
Features:
- This book offers a comprehensive overview of environmental sustainability from the operations and supply chain perspective
- This book proposes an understandable and innovative viewpoint in explaining sustainable operations management comprehensively as managing operations sustainably at organizational level
- Readers will learn the concepts, techniques, and the core factors relating to managing operations, keeping in view various dimensions of sustainability and the macro-level guidelines, norms, regulatory measures, and the like in this context
- This book adds to the knowledge on design, planning, and management of sustainable operations, including the specific management approaches
- This book includes summary and review questions at the end of each chapter
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in industrial, production, and mechanical engineering, including operations management. It is also recommended as a textbook for courses such as sustainable development, sustainable operations management, and environmental management.
Biography
Kampan Mukherjee, after teaching for 35 years at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ISM) Dhanbad and 7 years at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur as Professor in Operations Management and Decision Sciences, joined Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad as Professor in Operations Management in 2021. He earned his PhD from Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics (formerly MESI) as an Indo-USSR government research scholar in 1988, and in 1998, he was invited for advanced research in LAMSADE, Paris Dauphine University, as Senior Visiting Fellow of Government of France. He published research papers in several reputed journals. He is the recipient of Silver Medal and Best-Case Study Award from the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering in 1992. He was a regular Visiting Professor in Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He taught there in 2000-2001 on sabbatical, and in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 during summer sessions. As Visiting Professor, he also taught in Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Australia; Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; ESDES Lyon Business School, Catholic University at Lyon, France; and several other universities in Europe, UAE, and also XLRI, IIM Shillong etc in India. He was Dean in both IIT and IIM and established the Department of Management Studies in IIT Dhanbad in 1997. He was conferred Life Time Achievement award in Operations Management by Society of Operations Management in 2012 jointly organized by IIT Delhi, and IIM Lucknow, and Grand Valley State University of the USA.
