March 31, 2008 at 4:45 p.m.
University Events Room
Glickman Family Library, 7th floor
Portland USM Campus
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research paper.
Businesses today cannot stress enough the importance of management systems and people for improving environmental performance. The information presented by Dr. Robert Sroufe sheds light on important elements of management such as communication, reporting and control, accountability, and sustainable operations. The combined results of multiple studies show the influence of these management elements on performance and help to explain why firms benefit from environmental activities. An understanding of operations performance is better understood after looking at manufacturing-sector firms and the relationships among different elements of management systems. The results of field studies and empirical research over the last ten years are combined to demonstrate impacts on improved performance and the benefits management can receive from environmental activities.
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Robert P. Sroufe, Jr. (Supply Chain) is the Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness in the John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business at Duquesne University, USA. He is a researcher and consultant in environmental management systems, green supply chain management, and environmentally responsible manufacturing. Professor Sroufe received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from Michigan State University. His research interests include environmental management systems, green supply chain management, design for environment, and green purchasing. He has published in many conferences, edited books, and peer reviewed journals such as the Production and Operations Management Society, Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, the International Journal of Production Research, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the Center for Advanced Purchasing (CAPS), and the Production and Inventory Management Journal.
The colloquium is sponsored by the L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair in Accounting.
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USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer.
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