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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787713503321

Titolo

Green Business Process Management [[electronic resource] ] : Towards the Sustainable Enterprise / / edited by Jan vom Brocke, Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

9786613766670

3-642-27488-9

1-280-99506-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Progress in IS

Classificazione

330

Disciplina

005.7

330

333.7

650

Soggetti

Information technology

Business—Data processing

Organization

Planning

Environmental management

Computers

IT in Business

Environmental Management

Information Systems and Communication Service

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface by Richard T. Watson -- Foreword -- Part I: Foundationss and Directions -- Part II: Tools and Methods -- Part III: Cases and Examples.

Sommario/riassunto

Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of



our society, have always been a major contributor to the degradation of our natural environment, through the resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage production associated with their business processes. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable business processes. Finding solutions to this organizational design problem is the key challenge of Green Business Process Management. This book discusses the emerging challenges of designing “green” business processes, presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, and provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices. The book is of relevance to both practitioners and academics who are interested in understanding, designing, and implementing “green” business processes. It also constitutes a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the fields of information systems, management, and sustainable development.