International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 21 Issue 12

The sustainability debate

Adrian Wilkinson, Malcolm Hill, Paul Gollan

This paper serves as an introduction to this special issue of the journal on the topic of sustainability. It commences with definitions of sustainability, followed by a…

Sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions and international operations management

Malcolm R. Hill

This paper focuses on the terms of reference of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was drafted to support environmental…

Impediments to consumer adoption of sustainable transportation: Alternative fuel vehicles

Michael Raymond Byrne, Michael Jay Polonsky

There are a number of impediments to consumer adoption of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), including regulatory barriers, resources, infrastructure and vehicle characteristics…

Achieving sustainability through attention to human resource factors in environmental management

Bonnie F. Daily, Su‐chun Huang

Currently, many businesses are implementing a proactive, strategic tool known as an environmental management system (EMS) to gain a competitive advantage. Companies can no longer…

Environmental performance as an operations objective

Jerónimo de Burgos Jiménez, José J. Céspedes Lorente

The traditional approach of operations management has evaluated an organisation’s performance based on four main areas: cost, quality, time and service. However, the necessity to…

Corporate architectures for sustainability

Andrew Griffiths, Joseph A. Petrick

While there exists a growing literature on corporate “green” strategies, there is a research gap about which corporate architectures and organizational change processes enable…