Drivers and barriers of extended supply chain practices for energy saving and emission reduction among Chinese manufacturers

Analytic Hierarchy Process-Based Analysis to Determine the Barriers to Implementing a Material Efficiency Strategy: Electrical and Electronics’ Companies in the Malaysian Context

“…This finding further confirmed that an unreliable supply chain is one of the barriers that can cause poor implementation of environmental practices, as mentioned by Abdul Rashid and Evans [25], and Zhu and Geng [46]. For E&E companies, green materials are hard to source in developing countries such as Malaysia.…”

An examination of drivers and barriers to reducing carbon emissions in China’s manufacturing sector

“…The studies by Lau and Wang (2009) and Zhu and Geng (2013) specifically note that Chinese manufacturers are exceptionally cost conscious and lack the incentive to invest in green practices. Both studies inferred that Chinese manufacturers fear that pursuing green practices will come at a disadvantage of lower costs that made China a preferred global manufacturing base.…”

“…Firms invest scarce resources in redesign initiatives (or any initiatives) only when they are compelled to by clear insights on the real benefits of such investments. Predominant firms' barriers to new innovative practices such as suggested redesign are financial support, infrastructure and the technological systems necessary to provide capability to achieve desired objectives, in addition to government support Lau and Wang, 2009;Zhu and Geng, 2013).…”

Impact of Competitive Capabilities on Sustainable Manufacturing Applications in Romanian SMEs from the Textile Industry

“…This notion is also supported by Govindan et al [30] who drew on a fuzzy multi-criteria approach to revisit the link between compliance with regulations and maintaining green manufacturing processes. With regard to the sustainable supply chain, Zhu and Geng [31] contemplated regulations as coercive pressures that have the potential to force the implementation of supply chain practices in Chinese factories. Researchers have also highlighted the contribution of environmental pressures that are brought about by the power of customers, media, competitors, suppliers, investors, and non-governmental organizations, etc., that affect an organisation's decisions to implement sustainability initiatives.…”

“…Environmental regulations (ER) are presented as two items that reflect the level of national and regional regulations regarding waste, emissions, cleaner production, and so on, while the environmental pressures (EP) items include pressures from customers, media and competitors. Items of both variables are adapted from Zhu and Geng [31]. Technology infrastructure (TI) is assessed by three items adapted from Robert and Varun [44] to manifest using information, communication, networking, smart devices and manufacturing technology.…”