Green Purchasing Strategies: Trends and Implications

Min, Hokey; Gallé, William P.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-493x.1997.tb00026.x

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“…Customer awareness on the importance of environmental conservation had increased over the last decades (Min & Galle 1997). Customer pressures are instilled within the firm's supply chain when green practices are implemented to meet environmental and social needs (Rao 2007).…”

Section: Customer Pressuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing ISO 14001 Firm’s Perceived Environmental Performance in Malaysia

Rohati

Norlida

Jamal

2017

AJSTD

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The changes in the global environmental conditions have placed great challenges on governments, industries, and societies. Business organizations are often blamed for being the sources of theseenvironmental problems. This study aimed to examine the factors influencing the perceived environmental performance of firms certified under the ISO 14001 in Malaysia. A total of 268 manufacturing companies responded to the questionnaires. In this study, structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypotheses. It was found that the “environmental policy”, “environmental training”, “regulatory stakeholder’s pressures”, and “customer pressures”, influence the firm’s perceived environmental performance in which “customer pressures”, was found to be the dominant factor. The measure of environmental performance was self-reported due to the lack of available data. Therefore, perceived environmental performance was employed for this study which is aperceived measure based on the dimensions of the ISO 14001 definition. This study provided a model to synthesize both internal (environmental policy and environmental training) and external (regulatory stakeholder’s pressure and customer pressures) constructs that influenced a firm’sperceived environmental performance. The empirical results and insights from interviews shed lights on the practitioners as to how to enhance a firm’s environmental performance through green practices.

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Section: Customer Pressuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing ISO 14001 Firm’s Perceived Environmental Performance in Malaysia

Rohati

Norlida

Jamal

2017

AJSTD

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“…However, there may be a perception that costs for environmental management training, and the purchase of software programmes and tools, cannot be outweighed by the benefits [97][98][99][100]. Consequently, investments need to have significant short-term financial benefits for them to be considered [101].…”

Section: Resource Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective Life Cycle Management in SMEs: Use of a Sector-Based Approach to Overcome Barriers

2018

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Abstract:One approach to incorporate sustainability in organisations is the implementation of life cycle management (LCM). LCM involves sharing responsibility for addressing environmental impacts across the entire supply chain of products and services, extending from raw material extraction to end-of-life of the product. The New Zealand primary sector relies heavily on natural resources and provides about 70% of the country's export revenue. Most companies in primary industry sectors in New Zealand are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Successful sector-wide uptake of LCM can potentially facilitate effective measurement and management of environmental impacts caused by this sector. The aim of this research was to identify the barriers and enablers to successful LCM uptake by New Zealand primary sector SMEs within a sector-based context. An extensive review of the literature was undertaken in the areas of change management for SMEs and supply chain management. The main factors influencing successful LCM uptake include owner/manager influence, environmental culture, resource availability, future orientation, knowledge of environmental issues, market requirements, geographical separation of production and consumption, awareness of own environmental issues and communication/information sharing. This paper forms the basis for future research and development of tools for the effective implementation of sector based approaches to LCM in the primary industry. The results of this research include a capability maturity model and the development of a cloud based platform for collaboration and communication around LCM.Keywords: life cycle management (LCM); sector-based approach (SBA); sustainability; agriculture; small and medium sized enterprise (SME); supply chain management (SCM)

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“…Min and Galle [26] indicated that green procurement affect environmental practices and create positive business conducts [27].…”

Section: Business Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The research of Ellaram and Pearson showed that green procurement reduces environmental impacts, which correspond with Min and Galle [26][27][28].…”

Section: Environmental Performancementioning

confidence: 99%