This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of...

1 Operations Strategies and Triple Bottom Line -- 2 HRM and Organisational Practices in Operations: The Impact on Environmental and Social Sustainability -- 3 Organisational Responsibility and Worker Commitment: The Definition and Implementation of Sustainable Operations Strategies -- 4...

Understanding Policy Decisions -- Models for Understanding Policy Decisions -- Who Decide? Actors and Their Resources -- What Is Decide? The Content of the Decision -- How to Decide? The Patterns of Interaction -- When and Where to Decide? the Decisional Context -- Taking Complex Decisions. What...

1 Transition towards sustainability: the need of radical innovations -- 2 Product-Service System innovation: a promising approach to sustainability -- 3 Introducing and scaling up sustainable Product-Service Systems: insights from transition studies -- 4 Towards a new way of designing and...

This book investigates the potential contribution that a strategic design approach can make to stimulating and supporting the societal embedding of sustainable PSSs (product-service systems). A new strategic design role thus emerges; a role in which the ideation and development of sustainable...