Sustainability: An Introduction View from ICIEOM

Abstract

This Special Issue of the Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management (BJOPM)features four papers selected from the XVIII International Conference on Industrial Engineeringand Operations Management (ICIEOM), which conference theme was “Sustainability”, andtwo invited papers based on keynote speeches regarding Sustainability and its association toIndustrial Engineering fields (one from ICIEOM and the other from the ENEGEP conference).This editorial paper evaluates and summarizes these selected contributions as well as introducesthe term sustainability.

Keywords

• Industrial Engineering
• Sustainability
• Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• ICIEOM.