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Sustainable Production: Practices and Determinant Factors of Green Supply Chain Management of Chinese Companies.
- Source :
- Business Strategy & the Environment (John Wiley & Sons, Inc); Jan2012, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p1-16, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT This paper explores the green supply chain management (GSCM) of companies based in the Yangtze River Delta, China. The companies' overall GSCM practice level (L<subscript>GSCM</subscript>) is measured by using the data from 165 valid respondents in a questionnaire survey conducted during April and May 2009. The relationships between L<subscript>GSCM</subscript> and the classified determinant factors are analyzed. It is indicated that Chinese companies are still at a preliminary stage of GSCM practices. Their environmental management in cooperation with external members of the supply chain is very marginal. A company's L<subscript>GSCM</subscript> is significantly and positively associated with the external pressures from regulatory, domestic clients and business competitors. As an internal factor, a company's learning capacity greatly determines L<subscript>GSCM</subscript>. We also confirm that the internal factors function as intermediate variables of external pressures in influencing a company's GSCM. A company's environmental management capacities will be strongly enhanced by frequent internal training of employees to increase its involvement in GSCM practices. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09644733
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Business Strategy & the Environment (John Wiley & Sons, Inc)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 70074302
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.705