Barriers to environmentally-friendly clothing production among Chinese apparel companies

Zhu, Qinghua; Sarkis, Joseph; Geng, Yong

doi:10.1057/abm.2011.15

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“…The tenth enabler (government use of international standards for sustainable investments) has the highest net cause/effect value. To probe the results' robustness and to exclude a possible bias related to the weight assigned to evaluators, we ran a sensitivity analysis, as recommended by previous studies [121,123,126,129]. We selected the most prominent evaluator according to his role and experience in the organization, and the years of experience in the industry.…”

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“…It can help pinpoint critical factors and examine their causal-effect interrelations, visualizing them in a causal diagram [121,[126][127][128]. DEMATEL is widely used in the environmental management and finance research [54,[129][130][131][132][133]. Classic DEMATEL often shows problems related to incomplete information, subjective evaluation, and uncertainty [134,135].…”

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“…Following previous research [126,129], we developed a structured three-level framework to discover the most critical enablers of SVC investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The first step was to establish a grey pairwise influence scale for comparisons.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first step was to establish a grey pairwise influence scale for comparisons. Similar to other studies [121,123,129] we set a five-level scale in our questionnaire. This scale helped the respondents to compare the enablers and provide an answer easily.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Following accepted practice [122,123,129] we interviewed four evaluators and allotted suitable importance weights to each evaluator based on their roles, knowledge, and experience with the venture capital. Next, we created the crisp overall matrix with weighted averages.…”

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Investing in sustainable projects can help tackle the current sustainability challenges. Venture capital investments can contribute significantly to the growth of sustainable start-ups. Sustainable venture capital (SVC) research is just emerging. This paper identifies enablers for sustainable venture capital investments in Saudi Arabia taking into account different stakeholders and firm's tangible and intangible resources. Using perspectives from venture capital experts in Saudi Arabia and the grey-based Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method, this study pinpoints the most critical enablers and investigates their causal and effect interconnections. The methodological process consists of reviewing the SVC literature and consulting the experts to identify the SVC enablers, creating a questionnaire, acquiring the answers from four experts, analyzing the data with grey-based DEMATEL and performing a sensitivity analysis. The government use of international standards, policies and regulations for sustainable investments, the commitment of the venture capitalists to sustainability and their deep understanding of sustainable business models are the most influential enablers. The paper concludes with implications for different actors, limitations and prospective directions for the sustainable venture capital research.

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Mediating role of internationalization readiness in the adoption of social sustainability practices: Evidence from Vietnamese handicraft companies

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This study investigates the mediating role of internationalization readiness in the adoption of social sustainability practices (SSP) by companies in the Vietnamese handicraft industry. Data were collected from 325 Vietnamese handicraft companies through a questionnaire survey to empirically validate a conceptual model. The findings reveal that government, laborer, and market pressures on SSP adoption are fully mediated by internationalization readiness. The results also show that supplier pressures influence SSP adoption both directly and through internationalization readiness as a mediator. Furthermore, both internationalization readiness and SSP adoption can positively influence overall organizational performance. This study is the first of its kind to corroborate the application of the stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view theory to explore the impactful role of internationalization readiness in SSP adoption. It provides significant insights for managers, public policymakers, and sustainability practitioners to promote greater adoption of SSP across the entire supply chain through fostering internationalization readiness of companies.

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Integrating Strategic Carbon Management into Formal Evaluation of Environmental Supplier Development Programs

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Increasing global environmental pressures from regulators, markets and communities have caused focal companies in supply chains to recognize the significance of environmentally conscious management. Greener supply chains are part of this recognition. Environmental supplier development is a valuable and viable strategy for greening supply chains. However, low carbon management is rarely explored in supplier development. Further, formal tools and models for focal companies to evaluate environmental supplier development programs (ESDPs) considering low carbon management and their effect on supplier performance improvement are limited. To help address these gaps in the literature, this paper proposes a portfolio evaluation model for ESDPs that consider three types of supplier performance: traditional operational factors, traditional environmental factors and low carbon management factors. This model applies the fuzzy scoring method to measure the effect of ESDPs on supplier performance, and uses fuzzy DEMATEL to examine the cause-effect interrelationships among the ESDPs. Subsequently, a real world example is used to demonstrate the application of the portfolio model and provide insights into environmental supplier development evaluation, followed by discussions of case application results. This paper concludes with directions for further research.

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Barriers to environmentally-friendly clothing production among Chinese apparel companies

Cited by 69 publications

References 27 publications

Sustainable Venture Capital Investments: An Enabler Investigation

Sustainable Venture Capital Investments: An Enabler Investigation

Mediating role of internationalization readiness in the adoption of social sustainability practices: Evidence from Vietnamese handicraft companies

Integrating Strategic Carbon Management into Formal Evaluation of Environmental Supplier Development Programs

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