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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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Development of indicators for the social dimension of sustainability in a U.S. business context
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for social indicators has been developed by evaluating the needs of social entities with which a company interacts, e.g., employees and customers, and the resulting indicators can be used to evaluate social performance for a business enterprise.
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Purchasing managers' willingness to pay for attributes that constitute sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how purchasing managers evaluate the trade-off between short-term economic (i.e., purchasing cost reduction) and social/environmental sustainability criteria.
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Strategic collaboration and sustainable supply chain management
TL;DR: The results showed that SC in the supply chain has a positive impact on the IKS and EKS and SSCM and the results provided the important environmental and social concepts regarding the sustainability of supply chain.
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Sustainability – a new dimension in information systems evaluation
TL;DR: The authors propose a framework that was originally developed to evaluate supply chain practices, in which IS often play a major role, and can be used as a starting point to develop a framework for sustainability-oriented IS evaluation.
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Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodological and practical background for capturing and handling knowledge about green supplier selection criteria, supported by a formal guideline for their appropriate acquisition, and capture knowledge in one place in the form of ontology for enabling selection and evaluation criteria of green suppliers.
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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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