A Review of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in Asian Countries

Abstract

This paper offers a systematic review of 22 research articles published on the green supply chain management practices in developing Asian countries between 2008 to 2017. With the increasing trend in the depletion of environmental resources, the green supply chain management practices are considered prudent. Their impact on firm’s performance has been well established. Review of articles revealed that interest in the topic of green supply chain management practices has grown significantly during the last decade, and will remain a fertile area for academic research in the years to come. Findings revealed that the green supply chain management practices lead to enhanced performance in four areas: economic, environmental, operational, and social.

Logistics Commitment: An Evidence of Long-term Relationship on Sustainable Global Supply Chain

“…This study adopted PLS analysis as the primary analytic procedure, which is robust to the violation of non-normality data distribution. The bootstrapping method employed, which allow the researcher to create sub samples from the original data set, enables precise statistical results for non-normally distributed data with a sample size ranging from 50 to 400 (24)(25)(26). The results indicate that majority of the responding firms from 78 companies are involve international operations and international logistics arrangement.…”

“…Upon completed the missing value analyses, skewness and kurtosis tests were performed to examine the data distribution. Consistent with (25)(26)(27)(28), this study used a value of between -2.0 and +2.0 as a cut-off point to represent a normally distributed data. All items had skewness value of below ± 1.0.…”

Critical success factors for green supply chain management practices: An empirical study on data collected from food processing companies in Saudi Arabia

“…In a multinational research covered 246 companies by Wang et al (2018), cost and customer drivers were found to significantly affect GSCM implementation. Irum et al (2018) reviewed GSCM literature in Asian countries and concluded that GSCM practices are strongly associated with organizational performance as measured by economic, operational and environmental performance. It was understood from these results that companies' awareness of the effects of GSCM implementation encourages or prevents the intention to adopt GSCM initiative.…”

“…In general, CSFs that found out by researchers can be systematized as internal factors and external factors. Examples of critical internal success factors for GSCM implementation include management commitment (Agyemang et al, 2018), awareness of GSCM implementation implications (Irum et al, 2018). On the other hand, government, market, supplier, customer, and environment driversand institutional external pressures (Zhu et al, 2013) were hold as external factors of GSCM implementation (Mathiyazhagan et al, 2018).…”

Relationship between Green Supply Chain Adoption and Supplier Innovation Initiative: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Accra Metropolis

“…Globally, green concerns have been a challenge for individuals as well as companies to balance environmental friendliness with profit-making. Many researchers, including (Seuring & Müller, 2008;Koller et al, 2011;Irum et al, 2018) argued that businesses, especially manufacturing firms, are the major contributors to environmental decay. Due to the extreme environmental impacts of manufacturing processes that often contribute to the degradation of the ozone layer, global producers were warned about balancing green supply chain practices and supplier creativity to foster sustainable economic growth (Guang Shi et al, 2012;Zhu, Sarkis, & Lai, 2019).…”