Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks

· Greening of Industry Networks Studies Book 8 · Springer Nature
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This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today. It is an excellent demonstration of some great challenges in our society in the area of sustainability. These great challenges, ranging from sustainability in logistics to the use of renewable energies, needs to be urgently addressed. Sustainability has become one of the most important topics in management and many organizations are taking big steps towards sustainability. Organizations are attempting to use cleaner production technologies and renewable energies sources, to improve health and safety issues within their industries and the products and services they offer. These points involve several important strategic and managerial decisions, highlighted in this book. The book can be used by decision-makers and policy-makers as exemplary guidelines to solve sustainability problems.

About the author

JAFAR REZAEI is Associate Professor and head of section Transport and Logistics at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Supply Chain Management from TU Delft in 2012 and has a background in Operations Research. He has published in several scientific journals in Operations Management and Operations Research mainly on the topics of decision-making in different areas including (sustainable) supply chain management and logistics. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science and as a member of the editorial board of several other scientific journals. His main research interests are decision-making methods, and sustainable logistics and supply chain management. One of his outstanding achievements is the development of a decision-making method called Best-Worst Method (BWM), which has received significant attention by researchers and practitioners in many different scientific and application areas.

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