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Business Benefit-Management for Sustainability

Despite the concept of sustainability being concerned with the environment and environmental related issues, its application is also tied to a company's financial viability. Most business organizations view sustainable development as a waste of time and resources and thus do not bother to follow up and implement it. For instance, the Yakima Company realized that manufacturing its products in Tijuana, Mexico and shipping them to the Memphis and back to the west coast was costing more money and time as well. The company decided to open a distribution center on the west coast and from ever since it has ...

Introduction

The pressure swing adsorption principle and technology will be used in an experiment to separate the two gases in the lab. The technology is a technique used to separate two or more gases from a collection of various gases using pressure and the gases molecular attributes as well as an affinity for an absorbent material (Alonso-Vicario et al., 2010). The experiment will utilize the principle of pressure swing adsorption to separate active carbon and oxygen using hydrogen and nitrogen as catalysts. Pressure swing adsorption using two main factors in the separation of gases under pressure: the molecular attributes of ...

Introduction 3

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development 3 Role of CSR in Developing Nations 4 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Financial Performance 5 Ethical Behaviour 6 The Role of the Financial Sector 6 Conclusion 7 Introduction Under the conventional economic theories the businesses have been operating with the sole purpose of profit maximization and the increase in shareholders’ wealth. According to the classical view of business operations, the managers are liable to use the available resources in the best optimum manner to generate the revenues for the organization, while following the relevant legal ...