Sustainable consumption is interlinked with sustainable production. This chapter will introduce the closed-loop production, the circular economy, the steady state economy, and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) models of production. It will reflect on the key blockages to a meaningful sustainable production and how these could be overcome, particularly in the context of business education. The case study of the course for bachelor’s students within International Business Management Studies (IBMS) program at three Universities of Applied Science (vocational schools), and at Leiden University College in The Netherlands will be discussed. Student teams from these schools were given the assignment to make a business plan for a selected sponsor company in order to advise them how to make a transition from a linear to circular economy model. These case studies will illustrate the opportunities as well as potential pitfalls of the closed loop production models. The results of case studies’ analysis show that there was a mismatch between expectations of the sponsor companies and those of students on the one hand and a mismatch between theory and practice on the other hand. The former mismatch is explained by the fact that the sponsor companies have experienced a number of practical constraints when confronted with the need for the radical overhaul of established practices within the entire supply chain and students have rarely considered the financial viability of the "ideal scenarios" of linear-circular transitions. The latter mismatch applies to what students had learned about macro-economic theory and the application through micro-economic scenarios in small companies. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319656076 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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De auteurs constateren in dit artikel dat docenten in het voortgezet onderwijs worstelen met een effectieve aanpak van ordeverstoringen in de les. Veelgebruikte ‘lichte’ sancties als ‘waarschuwen’ en andere verbale manieren werken vaak niet. Ook ‘zware’ sancties als ‘verwijdering uit de les’ en ‘schorsing’ zijn zelden effectief. Integendeel, deze zware sancties werken vaak statusverhogend voor de bestrafte leerling en belonen zodoende het ongewenste gedrag. Een nieuwe vorm van de schrijfstraf wil dit gat tussen lichte en zware sancties opvullen en voorkomen dat regelovertreders vroegtijdig uit de les worden verwijderd. Hier wordt verslag gedaan van een eerste quasi-experimenteel onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van deze schrijfstrafaanpak op een vmbo-T school in Amsterdam. Geconstateerd wordt dat toepassing daarvan resulteert in een sterke afname van het aantal schorsingen en verwijderingen uit de les. Via deze nieuwe minder zware corrigerende maatregel wordt probleemgedrag in de les hanteerbaar zonder dat verwijdering uit de les nodig is.
The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide insights into the body of scholarly literature on the question of magazines and sustainability—in both production and editorial content. This chapter will also discuss production-side issues for business decision-making and policy, as well as editorial-side, within publishing organizations. Drawing on recent literature on the environmental impact of both information and communication technologies, with the Internet on the one hand and digitalization of media on the other, this chapter will identify a number of important effects of new magazine production and issues of sustainability with a primary focus on reviewing the emerging body of scholarly literature that relates to the question. The sociological and anthropological literature will be examined and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) theory will be introduced, in order to lead to the discussion of research arising from these perspectives as well as methods being used to explore these questions. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in "The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form" in June 2015 available online: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315722283 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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