Chapter 1. Brief Overview of Sustainable Public Procurement -- Chapter 2. Emergence of Sustainable Public Procurement as Strategic Instrument -- Chapter 3. Status of Sustainable Procurement Implementation -- Chapter 4. National Context for Sustainable Public Procurement Policy in India --...

Purpose – Technology transfer becoming an important area especially in developing and less developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to address issue of supply chains’ benchmarking based upon their capability to mange technology transfer critical barriers mitigation efforts toward...

In this article, the authors propose a computational method for multi criteria decision making problems using dual hesitant fuzzy information. In this study, the authors mention limitation of fuzzy ideals over a semi ring of positive integers and propose fuzzy ideal over a semi ring over subset...

Purpose: Technology forecasting (TF) and assessment (TA), all in all, apply to any intentional and deliberate endeavours to forecast and view the potential heading, rate, attributes and impacts of technological change, especially for development, advancement, selection and utilisation of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for assessing the overall innovativeness of manufacturing firms using a multi-attribute group decision-making methodology. Design/methodology/approach: This study identifies the indicators of firms’ innovativeness from the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the stock market impact of supply chain disruptions for public companies in Japan. The impact in the USA and Japan are also compared. Design/methodology/approach: Using event study on a data set comprising of disruptions announced by Japanese and...

The outcome of the assembly elections held in November 2013 in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi could possibly be summarized in one sentence: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and the incumbent Indian National Congress (INC) lost power in...

A procedure for assessing the techno-economic viability of solar thermal systems in a dynamic economic environment is developed. It is shown analytically that the period for replacement of these systems depends upon the nature of their use. While determining investment viability, it is...