Titlebook: Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains; Atalay Atasu Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license

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By-Product Synergy: Productively Using Waste in Joint Production Operationsals, many of which are natural resources. By-product synergy is an operational model that leverages economies of scope to more effectively use natural resources, while simultaneously reducing waste. Processes are joined by feeding the waste stream of one process as input into another process. The op

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Responsible Sourcingg. Other stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are also pressuring firms to improve the environmental and social impact of their supply chains. Therefore, in addition to producing high quality products at low cost, firms must ensure that their suppliers are able to supply parts

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The Impact of Supply Chain Structures on Corporate Social Responsibilityirms in a supply chain (i.e., suppliers) to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities has become of pivotal importance. Formal contracts may not serve the purpose, as CSR activities are not necessarily verifiable. In this chapter, we posit that incentives for CSR can be provided thr

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Servicizing in Supply Chains and Environmental Implications production and distribution of products, but rather with the use and functionality that the products can offer. It has been argued that such models, often referred to as . business models, may have a positive impact on the environment because they can enable firms to achieve both economic and envir

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Bike-Share Systemsthis chapter we discuss the operational challenges of implementing such systems and also provide design recommendations. Critical decisions when implementing bike-share systems are the number of bikes and the number of docking points. For a proposed system, these quantities are determined as a funct

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Biofuel Supply Chain Network Design and Operationsy characteristics of the biofuel supply chain that comprises of feedstock production, biomass logistics, biofuel production and distribution. We then discuss the recent literature on biofuel supply chain models. Using an illustrative biofuel supply chain model to facilitate the understanding of the

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Capacity Investment Decisions in Renewable Energy Technologiesle technology can be coupled with conventional technologies, such as purchasing electricity from the grid, to form a capacity portfolio that is used to meet stochastic demand for energy. Some factors that complicate this decision include the variability in the energy demand, energy prices, compensat

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Ignore, Avoid, Abandon, and Embrace: What Drives Firm Responses to Environmental Regulation?and do respond to environmental regulation in a variety of ways: complying with its intent; avoiding the regulation by offshoring or by abandoning the market; or ignoring the regulation by continuing with entrenched business practices. The path a profit-maximizing firm will choose depends, in part,

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Strategic Disclosure of Social and Environmental Impacts in a Supply Chaingarding use of conflict minerals and generation of greenhouse gases). This chapter shows that such a mandate will deter firms from measuring (and thus improving) those impacts, for two reasons. First, as demonstrated by consumer choice experiments, voluntary disclosure of these impacts can boost a f