This book highlights what it takes to be successful in identifying and executing environmental responsibility from an operational perspective. It provides cutting-edge research from globally recognized field experts. It is a useful resource for practitioners to explore why and how firms engage in environmentally responsible operations. It is also valuable for academics as an introductory reference that provides direct exposure to key environmental operational problems faced by many firms today. This book can also be used as an introductory reading for students with varying educational backgrounds - from business school students interested in environmental issues to environmental scientists interested in obtaining a business perspective - as it provides a broad scope of key issues at the interface of operations management and environmental and social responsibility.

Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains is structured in a modular fashion, with each chapter introducing and analyzing a specific timely topic, allowing readers to identify the chapters that relate to their interests. More specifically, the book distinguishes between two key drivers of environmentally responsibility: Profit and Regulatory compliance. The book is divided into five sections. The first three sections of the book explore profit driven environmental responsibility, and provide examples as to where the motives for environmentally responsible business practices come from, where business opportunities are, and what operational perspectives are key to profitability. The last two sections of the book focus on regulation as a driver of environmental responsibility and identify motives, opportunities, or operational perspectives as to effective regulatory compliance. Ultimately the book introduces the reader to the fundamentals of sustainable operations and highlights the latest research on the topic.

Autorentext
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 influentialin the European WEEE Directive implementations.

Inhalt
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.