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Sustainable supply chains: An introduction
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In this paper, the focus on environmental management and operations is moved from local optimization of environmental factors to consideration of the entire supply chain during the production, consumption, customer service and post-disposal disposition of products.About:
This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2007-11-01. It has received 1593 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supply chain sustainability & Supply chain.read more
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Institutionalizing sustainability: A structural equation model of sustainable procurement in US public agencies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conditions under which a given organization is more likely to engage and prioritize sustainable procurement practices and determine the extent to which the leadership style of the organization's top leader can explain the degree to which sustainability is promoted within a specific organization.
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EOQ Revisited with Sustainability Considerations
M. Can Arslan,Metin Turkay +1 more
TL;DR: This study revise the standard EOQ model to incorporate sustainability considerations that include environmental and social criteria in addition to the conventional economic considerations to provide a number of useful insights for decision and policy making practices.
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Advancing social sustainability in supply chain management: Lessons from multiple case studies in an emerging economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze why and how focal companies implement and manage social sustainability in their supply chains and find that intrinsically motivated social sustainability initiatives in supply chains led focal companies to adopt supply chain structural collaborations, while extrinsically motivated social initiatives were more strongly connected with information exchange only.
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Sustainability adoption through buyer supplier relationship across supply chain: A literature review and conceptual framework
Divesh Kumar,Zillur Rahman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a systematic review of existing literature on the adoption of sustainability practices through supply relationships, and identify indicators, enablers and barriers to a sustainable supply chain.
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Product return management: Linking product returns, closed-loop supply chain activities and the effectiveness of the reverse supply chains
Mohd Rizaimy Shaharudin,Mohd Rizaimy Shaharudin,Kannan Govindan,Suhaiza Zailani,Keah Choon Tan,Mohammad Iranmanesh +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which product returns motivate manufacturing firms to adopt closed-loop supply chain activities that influence the effectiveness of reverse supply chains and found that product returns are a significant predictor of firm performance in reverse flow chains.
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Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
TL;DR: The seven revolutions for sustainable capitalism: competition, competition, triple win revolution, values from me to we revolution, information and transparency, no hiding place revolution, lifecylces from conception to resurrection revolution, partnerships after the honeymoon revolution, time three scenarios revolution, corporate governance, stake in the future, sustainability transition, value shifts, value migrations the worlds of money and power, sustainability audit, how are you placed.
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate
TL;DR: The Dutch flower industry has responded to its environmental problems by developing a closed-loop system to reduce the risk of infestation, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and improving product quality as mentioned in this paper.
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Life cycle assessment: Part 1: Framework, goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, and applications
Gerald Rebitzer,Tomas Ekvall,Rolf Frischknecht,D Hunkeler,Gregory A. Norris,Tomas Rydberg,W-P Schmidt,Sangwon Suh,Bo Pedersen Weidema,David Pennington +9 more
TL;DR: The LCA framework and procedure is introduced, how to define and model a product's life cycle is outlined, and an overview of available methods and tools for tabulating and compiling associated emissions and resource consumption data in a life cycle inventory (LCI) is provided.
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Relationships between operational practices and performance among early adopters of green supply chain management practices in chinese manufacturing enterprises
Qinghua Zhu,Joseph Sarkis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and environmental and economic performance in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, and investigated how two primary types of management operations philosophies, quality management and just-in-time (or lean) manufacturing principles, influence the relationships between GSCM practices and performance.
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