Green Economics: Miriam Kennet. -
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Published on: 10/12/2008
Last Visited: 8/28/2008
With Judith Felton, she has now developed a global network in 47 countries working to update and reform economics.
She is a regular speaker on all aspects of economics, including at Oxford University Politics,Philosphy and Economics Society on the reform of Economics.She is a member of Oxford Universitys' Environmental Change Institute which is very influencial in the Bclimate change debate and Mansfield Colllege which specialises in ethics.
Her current research at Keele University is looking at theoretical approaches to understanding stakeholder needs comparing stakeholder theory with the nascent discipline of green economics in the setting of procurement, supply side and Purchasing Practices .She trained in economics with Grazia Ietto Gillies in Foreign Direct Investment and Strategies of International Firms as well as at Templeton College Business School Oxford University.
She is concerned with the effects on stakeholders of such practises as outsourcing and off shoring and single sourcing and how modern purchasing practises are accelerating globalization and affecting more and more stakeholders.
She is committed to finding better models to inform the development of purchasing and its relationship with big multi national global companies and larger management consultants and to start helping ordinary people and local communities throughout the world.
She is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
As a practioner specialising in supply for large infrastracture projects she is uniquely able to test her theories in practise in the international environment in which she works.