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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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Modeling a low-carbon garment supply chain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a network optimisation model for sustainable supply chain that optimizes total cost, total direct carbon emission, total indirect emission in the form of embodied carbon footprint of the raw material and total trade-credit amount over the purchased item in a supply chain.
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Sustainable enterprise modelling and simulation in a warehousing context
TL;DR: The validity and usefulness of the sustainability models for the day‐to‐day decision making has been authenticated by the management of the warehousing and distribution company.
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How to Become Central in an Informal Social Network: An Investigation of the Antecedents to Network Centrality in an Environmental SCM Initiative
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how individuals arrive at positions of centrality within the networks surrounding environmental supply chain management (SCM) initiatives and found that a proactive personality and commitment profile might affect network centrality through the mediating role of championing behavior.
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Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Organizational Performance: The Intermediary Role of Competitive Advantage
Charles Baah,Zhihong Jin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the intermediary function of competitive advantage in the SSCM and organizational performance relationship and found that competitive advantage indirectly has a significant impact on the SCCM and organisational performance relationship.
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An integrated approach to evaluating the production system in closed-loop supply chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of comprehensively evaluating the production system in closed-loop supply chains and propose an evaluation framework that consists of economic evaluation, product quality evaluation and ecological evaluation modules.
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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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