Historically, management theory has ignored the constraints imposed by the biophysical (natural) environment. Building upon resource-based theory, this article attempts to fill this void by proposing a natural-resource-based view of the firm—a theory of competitive advantage based upon the firm's relationship to the natural environment. It is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development. Propositions are advanced for each of these strategies regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.

A natural resource-based view of the firm

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of eight dimensions of green supply chain management (GSCM) on economic, environmental and social performance, which are the three dimensions of corporate sustainability. The eight dimensions covered in this study are: green purchasing, green manufacturing, green distribution, green packaging, green marketing, environmental education, internal environmental management and investment recovery.,The relationships between dimensions of GSCM and sustainability performance are tested by using a plant-level survey. A proposed research model and hypotheses are tested by using cross-sectional face-to-face and e-mail survey data collected from manufacturing firms in Turkey. Structural equation modeling is used to test the proposed hypotheses.,Except for green purchasing, all GSCM dimensions are found to be related with at least one of the performance dimensions.,The results are important in highlighting the importance of GSCM in improving sustainability performance.,This paper enhances the understanding of the relationship between different dimensions of GSCM and the three sustainability performance factors. While there are very few studies examining the relationship between GSCM and corporate sustainability, this study is important in terms of exploring the effects of dimensions of GSCM applications on economic, environmental and social performance one by one, by examining these applications in the form of eight dimensions.

Effects of green supply chain management practices on sustainability performance

Green warehousing: systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

We study a supply chain consisting of a central remanufacturing facility and a number of collection sites (CS). The central facility procures returned items from the CS for remanufacturing and sale. We examine whether it is advisable to establish a sorting procedure that identifies those units that are suitable for remanufacturing before disassembly. Sorting is subject to classification errors and may be performed either centrally or locally at the CS. Assuming stochastic demand, infinite horizon and deterministic yield at the CS we obtain the optimal parameters of the replenishment policy under each one of the three possible system configurations: no sorting, central sorting and local sorting. It is then easy to determine the value of sorting and the preferred CS for the procurement of returned items.

Optimal location and value of timely sorting of used items in a remanufacturing supply chain with multiple collection sites

This study proposes a fuzzy-based VIKOR (VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) framework for evaluating barriers to implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) in the context ...

Ravi P. Agrahari

Papers

Review of Green Supply Chain Processes