Results 251 to 260 of about 11,488,763 (293)

Advancing Theory and Practice Concerning CO2e Emissions: A Time‐Based Tool for Organisations

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organisations are increasingly scrutinised on their CO2e emissions, economic growth is frequently encouraged. Eco‐efficiency–based initiatives—‘doing more with less’—could be a solution. The problem is that many organisations (e.g., smaller enterprises without access to specialist knowledge) have difficulties in gauging the impact of ...
Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Frank Figge
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Closed Loops: Advancing Climate Change Mitigation by Collaborative Open Approaches

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Even as world leaders emphasize the urgency of limiting global warming, a slow transition to a circular economy persists. While climate mitigation efforts focus on renewable energy and efficiency measures, addressing the 45% of emissions from product manufacturing remains critical.
Anna‐Kristin Behnert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Remanufacturing: A Key Business Strategy Advancing Industrial Circularity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Remanufacturing is a key strategy in the circular economy, enabling substantial product value retention. However, inconsistent definitions across standards and legislation hinder global trade, core recovery and market acceptance. This study examines how remanufacturing is defined in laws and standards, and how these definitions impact industry
Erik Sundin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Procurement Policy Then and Now

open access: yesHungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, 2018
openaire   +2 more sources

Public Procurement

OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 2003
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the public procurement system in three East African countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In response to both domestic and international pressures, these countries have recently undertaken important initiatives to make their public procurement systems more efficient and transparent in line with ...
openaire   +1 more source

Public procurement.

Health estate journal : journal of the Institute of Hospital Engineering, 1994
Abstract Governments are, in all their branches, important buyers of goods and services. It has been calculated that within the Community public procurement amounts to 15 per cent of GDP. At the same time, there are strong indications that governments continue, in this field, to use their purchasing power in order to favour domestic ...
  +6 more sources

Mastering Electronic Procurement, Green Public Procurement, and Public Procurement for Innovation

2017
This chapter explains the overview of Electronic Procurement (e-procurement); the critical success factors and implementation of e-procurement systems; the barriers to e-procurement implementation; the perspectives on electronic public procurement; the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and e-procurement; the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Demand, public procurement, and transformation

In this article we want to explore the role of the state to influence and support the demand for innovation in the context of transformation with a triple focus. First, we discuss the importance of demand for innovation and transformation. Second, we elaborate the conceptual underpinning of state intervention on the demand side.
openaire   +4 more sources

Circular public procurement practices in Danish municipalities

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021
Heidi Simone Kristensen   +2 more
exaly  

Review of green and sustainable public procurement: Towards circular public procurement

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020
Jesper Clement, Sonnich Dahl Sonnichsen
exaly  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy