This study aims to present a sustainable environmental model using the life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) method in Shazand Petrochemical Company. To determine the evaluation indices, two Delphi and DEMATEL-FTOPSIS questionnaires were distributed among 27 and 8 experts in the field of sustainable environmental management. The environmental, social, economic, environmental-economic, soc...

rapid urbanization has brought environmentally, socially, and economically great challenges to cities and societies. to build a sustainable city, these challenges need to be faced efficiently and successfully. this paper focuses on the environmental issues and investigates the ecological approaches for planning sustainable cities through a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. the re...

The management of intraand inter-organizational business processes is a significant issue that influences company’s success. Many business processes are not fully automated and require human interaction. Therefore, responsibilities for tasks have to be assigned by workflow management systems. Common resource models allow the selection of resources according to their roles, thus neglecting compe...

The integration of EMIS and ERP-systems has been recognized as an important step towards a holistic and long-term oriented environmental management. A number of research projects attempted to model the environmental impact of products in ERP systems and to integrate environmental impacts into the operational decisionmaking and communication of companies with their customers. In this paper we el...

Environmental health has a significant role to play in all stages of disaster management, from planning through to recovery. The conceptualizetion of the environmental health role by environmental health practitioners and other disciplines involved with disaster management is the focus of this review. To provide context for this discussion, we present an overview of disasters and disaster manag...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system has become a vital strategic tool in today’s competitive business environment. Recently, a high demand is emerging for computer-based information systems that better support corporate sustainability management. In this regard ERP systems are supposed to contribute for these demands such that they can be considered under the categories of Corporate Envir...

We illustrate how organizational ecology can contribute to strategic management and managerial practice by using resource-partitioning theory to make predictions with respect to: (1) the short run performance (i.e., growth and profitability) consequences of broad (generalist) vis-à-vis focus (specialist) strategies, (2) the detrimental performance implications of a particular instance of being ...

In this paper we examine classical and fundamental processes of business planning and marketing. As a result we define a five-phase process model for planning and marketing and we examine the relationship of planning and marketing to both the acquisition cycle and the research, development, test, and evaluation cycle. We construct a product life cycle—an abstraction that is a familiar part of m...

This study describes a model (MIKADO) to analyse options to reduce the environmental impact of aluminium die casting. This model will take a company perspective, so that it can be used as a decision-support tool for the environmental management of a plant. MIKADO can be used to perform scenario analyses to analyse the impact on the environment of different strategies, while taking into account ...