A typical supply chain is a materials and information network composed by supplier, manufactures, logistics agencies, distribution center, warehouse, retailer and consumer. It involves all enterprises and departments throughout the whole product life-cycle from the material gaining, production to semi-finished products or finished products, assembly, transportation, consumption till disposal. S...

Green management and going green are not as clear cut and easy as hyped by the general media. While going ecologically green is indeed beneficial and appropriate, the process and procedure of becoming green is anything but easy. Firstly, turning green is largely not a legal requirement, but a voluntary process. Thus, even though LEED (which is by far the more publicly known green certification ...

Executive Overview This essay was written in response to the theme of this year’s Academy of Management meeting, “Green Management Matters.” I assert that firms should adopt “green management” practices only if such activities complement the organization’s businessand corporate-level strategies and ultimately enhance profitability or shareholder wealth. To illustrate this I outline an economic/...

abstract: performance evaluation models of information and communication technology (ict) sectors have been already considered with many perspectives of ict management. since ict has two distinct aspects of usefulness and harmfulness for the environment, therefore, this research with regard to the new dimension named environment, is going to present a new performance evaluation model with the a...

The incorporation of ecological objectives in the design of information systems has gained increasing attention by IS research in recent years. Nevertheless, from the perspective of IT Service Management (ITSM), comprehensive approaches are still warranting attention. The objective of this paper is therefore to develop a process for the management of ecology in ITSM. By using the method of refe...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity is beneficial in both the prevention and management of chronic health conditions. A large proportion of adult New Zealanders, however, are insufficiently active. To help increase population levels of physical activity in New Zealand the Green Prescription, a primary care physical activity scripting program, was developed. The primary aim of this study was to...