Impact of suppliers’ green attributes in corporate image and financial profit: case maquiladora industry

Villanueva-Ponce, Rodrigo; García-Alcaráz, Jorge Luis; Cortés-Robles, Guillermo; Romero-González, Jaime; Jiménez‐Macías, Emilio; Blanco‐Fernández, Julio

doi:10.1007/s00170-015-7082-6

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“…Responsibility with the TQM performance [27,[63][64][65] Support to improve the production process [51,66] Communication about the mission and objectives of the company [67][68][69] Quality policies and quality goals [70,71] Quality is the mean to increase profits [72,73] Dissemination of quality culture [74,75] Promotion of training and education [76,77] Training and education TQM courses to improve employee skills [78,79] TQM courses for managers and supervisors [79][80][81][82] Quality circle courses [79,81,83] Technical statistics courses [84][85][86] Financial resources for training [87][88][89][90][91] Courses on communication, effective meetings, and leadership [64,65,92] Courses on identification and troubleshooting [93][94][95] Employees integration…”

Section: Managerial Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

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Total quality management (TQM) is a lean manufacturing tool that focuses on ensuring the production of goods that meet design specifications and give customer satisfaction, both attractive benefits highly appreciated by managers. However, there are several factors involved in the success of TQM programs, many of which are cultural aspects associated with human resources (HR). This article presents a structural equation model that integrates three latent variables related to internal HR: “managerial commitment,” “employee integration,” and “training and education,” which are linked to the operational benefits of a manufacturing system. The variables are connected through six hypotheses that have been validated with information obtained from 398 responses of a questionnaire applied to manufacturing industry professionals. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to describe the probabilities of occurrence for the variables at low and high levels. The hypotheses were statistically validated with the partial least squared technique, where the results showed that human factors play an essential role in the success of TQM, since the direct, indirect, and total effects of managerial commitment, employee integration and training, and education processes on the benefits obtained from the implementation of TQM were statistically significant at 95% confidence.

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Section: Managerial Commitmentmentioning

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Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

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“…In the case of Mexico, subsidiaries are usually known as maquiladoras [1], and they belong to global manufacturing networks that work under the attractive benefits offered by the hosts countries. Some of these benefits include available infrastructure, high training levels, and low production costs [1].…”

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“…Mexico is thus a facilitator to parent countries since Mexican maquiladoras offer competitiveness and proximity to two major markets, the United States and 2 Complexity Canada [5]. In fact, thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by these three countries, many enterprises overseas settle subsidiaries in Mexican land to introduce their products to US and Canadian markets [1].…”

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Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model

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Mexico has received a lot of foreign investment that has brought in a wide range of novel production philosophies, such as Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED). Despite its popularity and reported effectiveness, Mexican companies often quit SMED implementation as they consider it challenging. This usually happens when organizations are not familiarized enough with each one of the SMED stages or do not know how they are interrelated. In this article the interrelations among the different SMED implementation stages by means of a structural equations model are analyzed. Data for constructing the model were gathered from a survey administered to 250 employees from the Mexican maquiladora industry. The survey assessed the importance of 14 activities belonging to the four SMED stages. The descriptive analyses of these stages were conducted and integrated into a structural equations model as latent variables, to find their level of dependency. The model was constructed using WarpPLS 5 software, and direct, indirect, and total effects among variables are analyzed and validated. Results from the model revealed that Stage 1 of SMED implementation, known as the Identification Stage, has both direct and indirect effects on all the other SMED stages, being the most important stage.

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“…The topic of green supply chain management aims to integrate environmental concepts in supply chain management, reducing emissions, wastage and other forms of industrial pollution [2,10,11] . Several authors have researched on the relationships between the environmental impact of logistics, the product and the packaging.…”

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management: The Influence of Disposal Scenarios on the Environmental Impact of a 2400 L Waste Container

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This paper analyzes the influence of the supply chain management on the environmental impact of a 2400 L waste disposal container used in most cities of Spain. The studied functional unit, a waste disposal container, made up mostly of plastic materials and a metallic structure, and manufactured in Madrid (Spain), is distributed to several cities at an average distance of 392 km. A life cycle assessment of four different scenarios (SC) has been calculated with the software EcoTool v4.0 (version 4.0; i+: Zaragoza, Spain, 2015) and using Ecoinvent v3.0 database (version 3.0; Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories: St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2013). The environmental impact has been characterized with two different methodologies, recipe and carbon footprint. In order to reduce the environmental impact, several end of life scenarios have been performed, analyzing the influence of the supply chain on a closed-looped system that increases recycling. Closed loop management of the waste and reuse of parts allows companies to stop selling products and start selling the service that their products give to the consumers.

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Impact of suppliers’ green attributes in corporate image and financial profit: case maquiladora industry

Cited by 39 publications

References 133 publications

Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

Interrelations among SMED Stages: A Causal Model

Sustainable Supply Chain Management: The Influence of Disposal Scenarios on the Environmental Impact of a 2400 L Waste Container

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