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Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks

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Editors:
  1. Jafar Rezaei

    1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Includes a diverse set of decision-making approaches to solve sustainability problems
  • Addresses a set of diverse sustainability problems
  • Demonstrates some real-world decision-making problems
  • Highlights the key success factors in decision-making in the area of sustainability

Part of the book series: Greening of Industry Networks Studies (GINS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Logistics in the Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

    • Alistair Beames, G. D. H. Claassen, Renzo Akkerman
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Influence of Logistics Decisions on Transport Decarbonization: Lessons from Local to Global Scale

    • Lóránt Tavasszy
    Pages 15-34

  4. The Impact of Collaborative Scheduling and Routing for Interconnected Logistics: A European Case Study

    • Sh. Sharif Azadeh, Y. Maknoon, J. H. Chen, M. Bierlaire
    Pages 35-56

  5. Circular Economy in Agri-food Systems

    • Negin Salimi
    Pages 57-70

  6. Location Selection of Bioethanol Distribution Centers

    • Siamak Kheybari, Alireza Pooya
    Pages 71-92

  7. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis to Assess Urban and Territorial Transformations: Insights from Practical Applications

    • I. M. Lami, M. Bottero, F. Abastante
    Pages 93-117

  8. Sustainable Supplier Segmentation: A Practical Procedure

    • Hamidreza Fallah Lajimi
    Pages 119-137

  9. Evaluation of Manufacturing Organizations Ability to Overcome Internal Barriers to Green Innovations

    • Himanshu Gupta, Mukesh Kumar Barua
    Pages 139-160

  10. Strategic and Managerial Decision-Making for Sustainable Management: Factors and Remedies for Information Overload

    • Geerten van de Kaa
    Pages 161-174
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This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today. It is an excellent demonstration of some great challenges in our society in the area of sustainability. These great challenges, ranging from sustainability in logistics to the use of renewable energies, needs to be urgently addressed. Sustainability has become one of the most important topics in management and many organizations are taking big steps towards sustainability. Organizations are attempting to use cleaner production technologies and renewable energies sources, to improve health and safety issues within their industries and the products and services they offer. These points involve several important strategic and managerial decisions, highlighted in this book. The book can be used by decision-makers and policy-makers as exemplary guidelines to solve sustainability problems. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jafar Rezaei

About the editor

JAFAR REZAEI is Associate Professor and head of section Transport and Logistics at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Supply Chain Management from TU Delft in 2012 and has a background in Operations Research. He has published in several scientific journals in Operations Management and Operations Research mainly on the topics of decision-making in different areas including (sustainable) supply chain management and logistics. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science and as a member of the editorial board of several other scientific journals. His main research interests are decision-making methods, and sustainable logistics and supply chain management. One of his outstanding achievements is the development of a decision-making method called Best-Worst Method (BWM), which has received significant attention by researchers and practitioners in many different scientific and application areas.

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