Sustainable operations management: A typological approach
Abstract: This paper discusses
the nature of sustainability and sustainable development as they relate to
operations management. It proposes a typology for sustainable operations
management that is based on the life cycle stages of a product and the three
dimensions of corporate social responsibility. The aim is to show how this
typology development could provide a useful approach to integrating the diverse
strands of sustainability in operations, using industrial ecology and carbon
neutrality as examples. It does this by providing a focused subset of
environmental concerns for an industrial ecology approach, and some research
propositions for the issue of carbon neutrality.
Author: Lawrence Michael
Corbett
Journal Code: jptindustrigg090005
