Trade windows joined together using open standards have enabled trading partners to protect global supply and value chains from increasing threats from state and non-state actors. The interconnectedness has enabled customs agencies to identify serious organized crime crossing borders (trafficking of people...
“The ability to respond quickly is an important part of the company's strategy to stave off competition and absorb the impact of globalisation.” Sara Lamsam; Muang Thai Assurance “I asked Cordoba Don't you mind that I don't know anything about cars and that I am a political science gr...
Although there is a wide gap between the demand on the grid and its supply capacity (or generation) in many developing countries, there is also the need to constantly maintain the alternating current frequency of the power system at its operational value (50 Hz or 60 Hz). The consequence of...
seeking to pressurise retailers has been a key strategy of FTT activists. The movement’s early growth emphasised the use of high street audits to assess FT availability, which provided opportunities to highlight the commercial opportunity that stocking...
How-ever, if “going local” cannot replace big corporations and does not offer a comprehensive strategy to cope with the problems at hand, building fairer and more sustainable corporations and supply chains is an inevitable next step. Of course, unfair conditions and unsustainable processes can ...
1. UEFA abuses its dominance by imposing dissimilar conditions on trading partners in direct violation of Article 102(c) UEFA directly contravenes the text of Article 102(c) because its implementation of FFP results in “dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, ...
Two cases studies, with similar percentage of deferrable load, and a Gini Index equal to 0.83 and 0.71 respectively, show that by adopting the Demand Side Management strategy the renewable energy covering the demand of the first case decreases by 8.57%, while the one of the second case ...
Although there is a wide gap between the demand on the grid and its supply capacity (or generation) in many developing countries, there is also the need to constantly maintain the alternating current frequency of the power system at its operational value (50 Hz or 60 Hz). The consequence ...
Introduction Addressing sustainability goals has proven to be a successful marketing strategy for firms, both to gain market share and to increase profitability [1]. The wide success of third-party certified ecolabels, such as fair trade and organic, as well as first party sustainability claims, ...