well a company can control its supply base and mitigate supply bottlenecks and liabilities. This paper used inductive and qualitative approaches to explore the salient factors that simultaneously enhance the “greening the supply chain” as well as maximizing the customer reach while maintaining the efficiency of the supply chain system of petroleum companies. The key indicators identified were environmental policies, supplier policies, sustainability, market orientation and commitment to human capital
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to Pay Experiments: Estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka. This paper shows how Willingness to Pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services when a private sector transaction is considered. The survey included approximately 1800 households in the year of 2003. Using multivariate regression, it showed that a complex combination of factors drives demand for service improvements. While poverty and costs are found to be key determinants
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Final Paper A sustainable process or condition is one that can be maintained indefinitely without progressive diminution of valued qualities inside or outside the system in which the process operates or the condition prevails. (We exclude from consideration, in applying this definition, the depletion of available energy from the sun on a time scale of several billion years!) Such a definition may be logically appealing, but it is hardly sufficient for addressing the meaning of sustainability in
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Macroeconomics Environmental Analysis Macroeconomic Environmental Analysis Google Inc. is the largest and best search engine. Google operates in the Internet industry. “The company primarily focuses on the areas, which include search, advertising, operating systems and platforms and enterprise” (Market Watch, 2011, para.1). Larry Page (CEO) oversees Google Inc. a public operating company. Keyword based advertising is how the business creates the majority of the company’s
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by measuring the impact of an organization’s activities on the world; this includes social, environmental, and financial performance (people, profit, and planet). The triple bottom line is essentially used as a scorecard. If it is positive, it will increase a company’s profit, social, human, and environmental capital. Systems theory on the other hand is a framework for viewing internal and external factors as a whole. This theory states that complex systems are held together by a relationship (Argosy
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Managerial Economics & Globali Professor: NAME Date: 19-July-2012 Operations Decision This paper will describe the details of a fictitious business and will assess the current environmental scan factors while determining the factors that will have the greatest impact on plant operations and management’s decision to continue or discontinue operations. Thirdly, this paper will evaluate the financial performance of the company using the information provided in the scenario; consider
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Environmental Scanning and Higher Education By Pat Artz Prepared for Professor Sue Sampson CIS 620 Management Information Systems Fall Term 2002 October 10, 2002 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Definitions 4 Strategic Planning 4 Environmental Scanning 4 Environmental Scanning in the Business World 5 Four Scanning Strategies 5 Perceived Uncertainty 5 Competitive Intelligence 6 Environmental Scanning in the Academic World 7 Why Scan? 7 Learning Organizations
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