SCMS 331- Chp 5.2
Companies can improve the triple bottom line with sustainability by minimizing what four things? A) raw material, energy, water, and waste B) raw material, transport, manufacture, and disposal C) people, planet, profit, and pollution D) pollution, carbon footprint, profit, and people E) lawsuits, advertisements, coupons, and layoffs
A
What refers to how companies remain in business? A) corporate social responsibility B) economic sustainability C) carbon footprint D) sustainability E) closed-loop supply chains
B
What refers to looking at a product's life from design to disposal, including all the resources required? A) the commons B) a systems view C) the triple bottom line D) DD analysis E) carbon footprint
B
One way to think of sustainability is to consider the systems necessary to support the triple bottom line of the three Ps, which are: A) price, promotion, and product. B) people, places, and products. C) people, planet, and profit. D) price, promotion, and profit. E) people, pollution, and profit
C
What does CSR stand for? A) consumer sustainability requirements B) critical sustainability ratio C) corporate social responsibility D) corporate sustainability record E) corporate society ratio
C
Companies that practice ________ introduce policies that consider environmental, societal, and financial impacts in their decision making
CSR
The carbon footprint is defined as a measure of total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly or indirectly by what four things? A) a factory, an office building, a warehouse, or a truck B) an organization, a product, an event, or a person C) an organization, a product, an animal, or a person D) an organization, a government, a product, or a person E) a product, an event, a person, or an animal
D
What refers to meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs? A) corporate social responsibility B) economic sustainability C) carbon footprint D) sustainability E) closed-loop supply chains
D
Corporate social responsibility involves managerial decision making that considers what three impacts? A) environmental, legal, and financial B) environmental, legal, and societal C) educational, environmental, and societal D) societal, legal, and financial E) environmental, societal, and financial
E
Resources held by the public are also said to be held in what? A) escrow B) the system C) contempt D) perpetuity E) the common
E
What is a measure of total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly or indirectly by an organization, a product, an event, or a person? A) radioactive decay B) nitrogen footprint C) ozone factor D) pollution index E) carbon footprint
E
A measure of the total greenhouse gas emissions caused directly or indirectly by an organization, a product, an event, or a person is the nitrogen footprint
False
Managerial decision making that considers environmental, societal, and financial impacts is known as sustainability
False
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs is known as corporate social responsibility
False
________ technologies today allow consumers, communities, public interest groups, and regulators to be well informed about an organization's performance
Internet based
Economic sustainability means appropriately allocating scarce resources to make a profit
True
Firms that do not consider the impact of their decisions on all of their stakeholders see reduced sales and profits.
True
Internet-based technologies today allow consumers, communities, public interest groups, and regulators to be well informed about an organization's performance
True
Social and environmental sustainability do not exist without economic sustainability
True
Sustainability is often associated with corporate social responsibility
True
Those resources held in the common are often misallocated
True
Inputs to a production system that do not have market prices are those held in the ________.
common
Corporate social responsibility involves managerial decision making that considers what three impacts?
environmental, societal, financial
The term ________ refers to meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
sustainability