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 This paper looks at, within the context of lean production, how and in what ways employees participate in environmental improvements. The paper uses data from an automobile plant well known for its participative work structures, New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI), to look more closely at the dynamics of worker participation in environmental management (i.e. management of pollution ...

Many contemporary land use and natural resource management planning initiatives have embraced a values-led planning approach. At the same time, there have been increasing calls to recognise and respect culturally diverse values in public policy (European Landscape Convention and UNFPII, 2008). Although Indigenous consultation in many land use planning and natural resource management initiatives...

BACKGROUND There is still much to learn about the explanation for the often-found negative association between sibship size and different child outcomes. A plausible explanation is resource competition between siblings in larger families, as suggested by the resource dilution hypothesis. OBJECTIVE This study contributes to our understanding of these mechanisms by investigating the association b...

Purpose: To explore the role of co-creation of value processes in consumer purchase behavior especially focusing on engagement generation. Taking as the starting point the Service-Dominant Logic propositions on value, a conceptual framework is proposed, positing coproduction and interaction as key drivers in order to understand customer perceived value co-creation and the subsequent engagement ...

Since construction is considered as one of the main sources of environmental pollution in the world, the level of knowledge and awareness of project participants, especially project managers, regarding the construction impacts on the environment are required to be enhanced. The aim of this paper is to develop a prototype of a Sustainable-Construction Planning System (SCPS) in order to mitigate ...

Jordan A. Thomson*, Andrew B. Cooper, Derek A. Burkholder, Michael R. Heithaus and Lawrence M. Dill Marine Sciences Program, School of Environment, Arts and Society, Florida International University, North Miami, FL 33181, USA; School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; and Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Departmen...

OBJECTIVES This project aimed to gain better understandings of northern Indigenous risk perception related to food safety and to identify the role that Indigenous knowledge (IK) plays in risk management processes to support more effective and culturally relevant benefit-risk (B-R) management strategies. STUDY DESIGN The project used an exploratory qualitative case study design to investigate ...

This paper demonstrates that partial cooperation with respect to the use of an international environmental resource can emerge when countries are able to opt to breach an agreement. Although the option of non-compliance restricts the set of coalitions on those which embrace merely two members, broader cooperation can emerge when these two countries compensate a third country for extra reduction...

In the light of corporate social responsibility, company success is determined not only by economic performance but also by social and environmental performance. Hence, the value based environmental management improves corporate environmental performance and enhances business excellence. Th e purpose of this paper is to examine the differences in environmental performance among companies of var...