1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910578691003321

Autore

Aichbauer Stefan

Titolo

Responsible Procurement : Leading the Way to a Sustainable Tomorrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2022

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

3-030-98640-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages)

Collana

Management for Professionals

Classificazione

BUS076000BUS087000SCI026000

Altri autori (Persone)

BuchhauserMartina

ErbenAgnes

SteinertSven

TietzeDetlef

WikingEmilia

Soggetti

Purchasing & supply management

Sustainability

Management of specific areas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this book is to encourage and inspire companies on their journey to transform into responsible and sustainable businesses by addressing the supply chain, which reflects a significant part of a company’s expenses and thus



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910595074403321

Autore

Mikhailov Oleg V

Titolo

Modern Problems of Scientometric Assessment of Publication Activity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Soggetti

Humanities

Social interaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

As is known, an objective assessment of scientific activity is one of the most difficult problems, in terms of the relationship within itself as well as with society. However, for many decades, the significance of scientists' contribution to the development of the corresponding branch of science was assessed by the scientific community only by meaningful qualitative criteria, wherein the principle and mechanism of such an assessment was actually intuitive and defied quantitative description. That is why the urgent task was undertaken to create a system for evaluating scientific activity based on some objective indicators of the activity of a particular scientist; in search of such criteria, in the 1970s-1980s, the term "citation index" appeared. Although a close examination of this indicator revealed its limitations and in a number of cases even inadequacy in assessing scientific activity, it has nevertheless since the 1990s gained very wide popularity in the scientific community. This has contributed to the emergence of numerous works aimed at finding new and ideal indicators for assessing publication activity (so-called bibliometric indices). To date, several dozen such indices have been proposed, the most significant of which was the so-called Hirsch index or h-index. Nevertheless, despite the incredibly significant advances in this specific area of sociology, the above problem is still far from resolved. In this regard, the key task of this Special Issue is to familiarize its readers with the latest



achievements both in the search for new, more advanced bibliometric indicators and in the improvement of existing ones.