Operations Management and Sustainability

Introduction to the theme and the book.- Sustainable operations Strategy and Management: an introduction chapter to section I.- Flexibility of environmental regulations and the impact on operations innovation.- Organizational Drivers and Barriers of Circular Supply Chain Operations.- Inconsistent norms in buyer-supplier relations: a study of sustainability introduction in the Apparel industry.- Theory building within SOM: an introduction chapter to section II.- Business models in the circular economy and the enabling role of circular supply chains.- Disentangling Sustainability-Oriented Innovation and Its Link to Environmental Sustainability: An Exploratory Study in the Aviation Industry.- The impact of negative social / environmental events on the market value of supply chain partners.- Maximizing the retained value of product cannibalization based on circular economy principles.- Sustainable inter modal train transport.- Mapping logistics services in sustainable productionand consumption systems: what are the necessary dynamic capabilities?.- Using the green Performance Map: towards the next step in material efficiency measurement.- Green capabilities and performance outcomes in logistics industry.- Interaction between buyer and supplier in green public procurement, an absorptive capacity perspective.

Luitzen de Boer is Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Poul Houman Andersen is B2B Marketing Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.