Green supplier development: analytical evaluation using rough set theory

Bai, Chunguang; Sarkis, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.016

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“…SDS practices also include knowledge transfer to and communication with suppliers (Lu et al, 2012), investment and resource transfers (Bai and Sarkis, 2010), improvement efforts directed at suppliers, and supplier evaluation (Lu et al, 2012).…”

Section: Supplier Development For Sustainabilitymentioning

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Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Busse¹,

Niu²,

Schleper

et al. 2016

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Acknowledgments:An earlier version of this paper was the recipient of the 2015 Chris Voss Best Paper Award granted at the 22 nd European Operations Management Association conference. We are most grateful to the EurOMA Scientific Committee for choosing our paper and encouraging us to consider IJPDLM as a publication outlet for our research. We also acknowledge the helpful feedback received at the conference. Moreover, we would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers at IJPDLM who have provided extremely insightful and constructive suggestions which helped us to improve this paper substantially. Finally, we express our gratitude to the Editor, Alexander E. Ellinger, for facilitating a speedy review process. Design/methodology/approach -A dyadic case study design was adopted with a Western European buyer and six of its Chinese suppliers. The database consists of 41 interviews and 81 documents.Findings -Contextual barriers to SDS in global supply chains derive from complexities in the sustainability concept, socio-economic differences, spatial and linguistic distance, as well as cultural differences between buyers and suppliers. Partial remedies include effective joint communications, an open organizational culture, and the fostering of cross-contextual understanding.Research implications -The findings contribute to theory development at the intersection of sustainable and global supply chain management research. They help to explain why scarce sustainability-related progress in global supply chains has occurred in recent years.Practical implications -The identified barriers facilitate managerial decision making that will expedite SDS progress in global contexts.Social implications -By diffusing knowledge regarding available remedies, the study contributes to improving SDS effectiveness, thereby fostering sustainability capabilities and performance of suppliers.Originality/value -This research highlights the criticality of contextual barriers to SDS. The barrier effects that stem from differing real-world conceptions of sustainability may inform future sustainable supply chain management research within and beyond SDS.

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Section: Supplier Development For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains

Busse¹,

Niu²,

Schleper

et al. 2016

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107

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“…Compared to it, analysis of each unit's relative efficiency scores provides further insight into its deficiency, we can calculate the target for every inefficient unit, take unit1 as an example, ' DMU1, 3,4,6,7,8,11,13,14,15,16 are operating at increasing returns to scale, in this stage, if the input doubled, the output is greater than doubled, so the company can increase its input to get more output; while DMU2,5,18 are operating constant returns to scale, it means that the company doubles its input, then its output will be doubled; DMU9,10,13 are operating at decreasing returns to scale, in this situation, it is not wise to increase its input.…”

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“…Such as: Zhu Qinghua, Wang Nengmin, Sarkis, etc. A growing number of green supply chain management (GSCM) studies have dealt with: the drivers for GSCM [1][2]; its practices [3]; the relationships between GSCM and its operational and/or economic performance [4]; green manufacturing and supply chain design [5] ; vendor selection index system design and models [6][7][8]; recent studies focus on the adoption of GSCMs in the innovation diffusion [9][10]. However, these scholarly works have primarily focused on the focal or large-sized buying firms, especially, to give advice on how to choose the right supplier, including the design of the index system and methodology; while, they scarcely took into account the suppliers in green supply chain.…”

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Chen¹,

Li²,

Wang³

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education

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During the implementation and diffusion of the green supply chain management, researches were focused on the focal enterprises, e.g. how to select suitable green supplier, instead, our work is trying to pay attention to green suppliers on how to improve the relative efficiency under green supply chain management. Data envelope analysis is used to evaluate the efficiency. Output indicators are determined according to the requirement from the downstream. The evaluation process is detailed through an illustrative application. According to the result analysis, the enterprises are clear about their position in peer companies and the deficiency, and this will help enterprises to improve the environment performance as well as financial performance.

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“…The study of Plambeck (2012) suggests that tremendous changes in supply chain design and operation are required to avert climate change and explains through case studies that how carbon emissions can be reduced profitably in supply chains. Furthermore, a few studies integrate carbon emissions concerns in forward supply chain problems such as network design, production planning, product mix and supplier selection (Jin et al, 2014;Zhang and Xu, 2013;Chaabane et al, 2012;Shaw et al, 2012;Bai and Sarkis, 2010;Letmathe and Balakrishnan, 2005;Gong and Zhou, 2013) and others investigate its impact on supply chain structures and transportation mode selection (Cachon, 2011;Hoen et al, 2014). Some studies incorporate emission concerns in inventory lot-sizing decision whichnot only influences total system-wide cost,customer service levels and carbon emissions significantly, but also affects other decisions such as packaging, waste and location (Bonney and Jaber, 2011).…”

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