Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains (eBook)

Atalay Atasu, PhD (INSEAD, 2007), is associate professor of operations management at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. His research expertise is on sustainable operations management, with focus on product recovery economics and extended producer responsibility, on which he has published extensively. His research appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and California Management Review. He is recipient of a number of research awards, including the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award (winner 2007, runner up 2014), Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award (2012), and Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2013). His research originating from extensive collaborations with a number of Electronics Manufacturers in Europe, in the context of extended producer responsibility, has been particularly influential in the European WEEE Directive implementations.

Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives.- Consumer Markets in Closed-Loop Supply Chains.- Market Behavior Torwards Remanufactured Products.- Assessing Consumers' Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments.- Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Opportunities.- By-Product Synergy: Productively Using "Waste" in Joint Production Operations.- Responsible Sourcing.- The Impact of Supply Chain Structures on Corporate Social Responsibility.- Servicizing in Supply Chains and Environmental Implications.- Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Operational Perspectives.- Bike-Share System.- Biofuel Supply Chain Network Design and Operations.- Capacity Investment Decisions in Renewable Energy Technologies.- Regulation-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives and Opportunities.- Owls, Sheep and Dodos: Coping with Environmental Legislation.- Ignore, Avoid, Abandon, and Embrace: What Drives Firm Responses to Environmental Regulation?.- Strategic Disclosure of Social and Environmental Impacts in a Supply Chain.- The Effect of EPR on the Markets for Waste.- Regulation-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Operational Perspectives.- Emissions Allocation Problems in Climate Change Policies.- Variability in Emissions Cost: Implications for Facility Location, Production and Shipping.- Managing the Chemicals and Substances in Products and Supply Chains.- Design Implications of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation.