A Literature Review on Green Supply Chain Management Adoption Drivers

Abstract

This article provides a systematic literature review of the driving factors influencing the application of green supply chain management (GSCM). The GSCM adoption issues have been widely given attention by researchers and practitioners since the adoption of GSCM would impact significantly on an organization's environmental, social, and financial performance. Most GSCM adoption has been discussed in the perspective of logistics management activities such as procurement, manufacturing, transportation, and reverse logistics. Nowadays, the discussion of GSCM adoption in terms of the driving factors affecting a successful GSCM application has led to complexity. In this article, a further review and discussion are conducted in terms of the driving factors dealing with GSCM adoption, including three major points, such as the driving forces of green procurement, green manufacturing, and green distribution and reverse logistics adoption. The driving factors are reviewed to highlight the recent factors affecting GSCM adoption. In this article, 94 papers from the past study are presented, associating each point of the discussion.

Product low‐carbon design, manufacturing, logistics, and recycling: An overview

“…In reality, green procurement has been addressed and supported in many industrialized and developing nations during the past few years. Two sorts of variables influence the adoption of green procurement: internal and external (Masudin, 2019). Studies have found that organizational elements are internal drivers, whereas various factors, including rules, consumers, competition, and society, are external drivers (Rane & Thakker, 2020).…”

The Emergence of a Sustainable and Reliable Supply Chain Paradigm in Supply Chain Network Design

“…Pressure from government agencies and national/international regulators influences responsible environmental behavior [69,70]. Public awareness of the company's environmental activities is the most effective motivating factor that is identified by the company when making green decisions [71]. If companies have a legal concern for the environment and there is social approval, environmental measures will be implemented more rapidly throughout the supply chain.…”

Trends and New Challenges in the Green Supply Chain: The Reverse Logistics

“…This term has its origins in the mid-1970s and became more relevant from the 1980s. [23]. The traditional SC is defined as an integrated manufacturing process wherein raw materials are manufactured into final products before delivering to customers with intermediaries, sellers of both [31].…”

“…Nowadays, we are talking about Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) since "there is a growing need for integrating environmentally sound choices into supply-chain management research and practice" [3] (p. 53). In spite of reasons to add "green" to business, policies are further analysed, and in a subsequent part of this study, it is convenient to comment that motives of this evolution are basically the increasing deterioration of the environment [3,31,51] and the social and legal pressures [23,31,44,52]. The literature also analyses stakeholders' influence on SCM [53,54].…”

“…Starting from the seminal works, we revise recent papers about GSCH and RCL that cited seminal papers in their most relevant arguments and in their discussion implications or conclusions. Some of these papers are [23][24][25][26][27], and with this step we have been able to complement the contribution of the seminal works.…”