Sustainability Management Strategies and Practices—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development and sustainability are increasingly relevant issues for a wide range of organizations and cover economic, environmental, social dimensions, thus requiring a multidisciplinary approach in order to explore, examine, and critically engage with issues and advances in these and related areas. In addition to covering the three pillars of sustainable development, other areas were covered, including governance and sustainability, energy return on investment, renewable energy self-sufficiency, and sustainability assessment and policies. Therefore, sustainability management strategies and practices are of growing significance. Many sustainability impacts are strongly influenced by management decisions, and the operations management function embraces the requirements of sustainability management. This has implications for processes and decisions associated with all aspects of operations management, including design, planning and control, strategy, and enhancement. This Special Issue aims to address questions related to the impact of management on the sustainable development or sustainability of organizations.

Thus, to explore challenges from various topics, this Special Issue invites research papers that may contribute to the applications or practices of sustainable development and sustainability in all fields. The papers should address but are not limited to:

• Environmental sustainability;
• Economical sustainability;
• Social sustainability;
• Sustainable supply chain management;
• Business models for sustainable supply chains;
• Governance and sustainability;
• Sustainability assessment and policies;
• Multiple-criteria decision-making;
• Soft computing on production, manufacturing, and logistics;
• Supply chain operations for a circular economy;
• Renewable energy self-sufficiency;
• Energy return on investment;
• General and related topics.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ming-Tsang Lu
Prof. Dr. Jung-Fa Tsai
Prof. Dr. Yi-Chung Hu
Prof. Dr. Ming-Hua Lin
Guest Editors

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• environmental sustainability
• economical sustainability
• social sustainability
• sustainable supply chain management
• business models for sustainable supply chains
• governance and sustainability
• sustainability assessment and policies
• multiple-criteria decision-making
• soft computing on production, manufacturing, and logistics
• supply chain operations for a circular economy