Supply chain collaboration in industrial symbiosis networks

Herczeg, G.; Akkerman, Renzo; Hauschild, Michael Zwicky

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.046

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“…Without trust, there can be no engagement in inter-firm information-sharing and joint collaboration. Some researchers [6,20,31,45,48] found that, when facing stressful and uncertain situations, the managers might develop distrust and fear toward their supply chain partners. If so, it is very possible that manufacturers, in the case of environmental uncertainty, are discouraged to rely on informal social ties to protect their interests.…”

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Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Yang

Lien

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The literature has recognized the value of green supply chain management in achieving the goals of environmental management. Yet developing and fostering sustainability partnerships among supply chain organizations remains challenging. Bounded rationality and opportunistic behaviors are likely to hinder joint sustainability collaboration and performance. The literature has called for a better understanding of the governance of green supply chain collaboration. This study applies transactional cost economics as a conceptual framework to investigate the relationships among transaction features, governance mechanisms, and environmental performance. Using the data collected from 969 plants in 17 countries, the statistical analysis compares and validates the effectiveness of three alternative governance mechanisms: contractual governance, problem-solving cooperation governance, and information-sharing governance. The statistical results reveal significant performance differences in how firms apply alternative governance mechanisms to mitigate opportunism, manage adaptation problems, and improve green supply chain collaboration and performance. Overall, this study makes research contributions by confirming the mediation effects of governance mechanisms on green supply chain practices. For green supply chains to be a viable practice, firms should apply governance mechanisms in proper alignment with the nature of the collaborative and environmental conditions.

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Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Yang

Lien

2018

Sustainability

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“…Crespin-Mazet and Dontenwill [34] reported a successful example of offsetting partners' fears of opportunism by utilizing its existing bonds with activist/militant organizations, but obviously this is not a viable approach to all JSDs. Identifying and aligning incentives between SC members can prevent opportunistic behaviors and lead to collaborative projects for sustainability performance where companies share interests [38]. Extant SC literature recognizes revenue sharing as an important mechanism to safeguard against opportunistic behavior and bring about the intended outcomes (e.g., [39]), but does not offer guidance on how such revenue sharing is arranged and how it influences both SC members' economic benefit of JSD, such as increased consumer demand.…”

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Toward Supply Chain Sustainability: Governance and Implementation of Joint Sustainability Development

Yoon

Kim

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Sustainability

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The extant sustainability literature has argued that supply chain (SC) members can gain both financial and operational benefits from a joint sustainability development (JSD) effort. However, no guidance has been provided on how SC members could collaborate on their sustainability development efforts to achieve the intended economic performance. This study addressed this research gap by proposing different contractual governances, based on a game-theoretic approach, for both manufacturer and retailer to better engage in JSD. Specifically, multiple JSD contractual arrangements regarding profit and associated cost sharing between manufacturers and retailers were defined and evaluated. Our analyses show that the manufacturer behaves opportunistically when the impact of a retailer's effort on consumer demand is low. In other words, the retailer increases its sustainability effort, but not the manufacturer. However, such opportunistic behavior can be removed under a revenue sharing arrangement. That is, the manufacturer becomes cooperative with the retailer, and both retailer and manufacturer increase their JSD efforts. Several numerical experiments were conducted to assess the effectiveness of various revenue sharing arrangements (no sharing, partial profit sharing, and total profit sharing) in devising and implementing a mutually beneficial JSD program. Accordingly, several guidelines for the SC JSD implementation are provided.

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“…The state of development of industrial symbiosis in Greece is quite low. In the last few years a growing interest has risen towards industrial symbiosis and circular economy mainly through funded projects from the European Union, but still national projects are rare and, in general, industrial symbiosis as a concept is not well known among stakeholders, policy makers and regional authorities (they do not include it in their development strategies) (Herczeg et al, 2018). In this framework, also the Region of Western Macedonia has not included the concept of industrial symbiosis and circular economy in its SDP.…”

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“…Moreover, DIADYMA S.A., which deals with the software development, environmental studies and risk assessments, will display a significant role in order to develop a digital on-line platform for the waste management. The on-line platform, which will be created by the European project LIFE M3P 2014-2020, is fully functional and based on a upgradeable database of the industrial waste of a local area, will allow to improve the environmental impact of the area, enhancing the use of material resources (Herczeg et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2018), notably: a) sustaining the survey and the cataloguing of each industrial scrap or waste produced in the local area by the companies and b) acting as "material match making system" to support experts and technicians of the companies to find a better use of materials inside the local area.…”

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Using an online platform for the improvement of industrial symbiosis and circular economy (in Western Macedonia, Greece)

2019

Global NEST Journal

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<p>The part of industrial ecology known as industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water and by-products (Dounavis et al. 2015, Dounavis et al. 2016, Ravindran and Jaiswal 2016, Kourmentza et al. 2018, Keskisaari and Kärki 2018, Ayadi et al. 2018). The keys to industrial symbiosis are collaboration and the synergistic possibilities offered by geographic proximity. Industrial symbiosis includes initiatives in which two or more industrial entities develop both beneficial relationships and the circular economy (Chowdhury et al. 2018). Since, the symbiosis encourages the sustainable development and promotes the economy growth (de Jesus et al. 2018). This paper presents an online industrial symbiosis and circular economy platform created by a LIFE project (still ongoing) which aims to demonstrate the usefulness of a digital on-line platform at European level for the cataloguing, use and exploitation of industrial waste produced in a local area in order to improve the overall performance of industrial processes and circular economy in a local level. All this will happen both through the increased use of waste within the area itself and by the less dependence on the disposal of waste to be disposed of, taking into account the reduction of used raw materials and the reduction of waste itself. The platform will be created through the European LIFE M3P Project (Material Match Making Platform for the promotion of the use of industrial waste in local networks) which is still on-going and ends at the end of September 2019.</p>

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Supply chain collaboration in industrial symbiosis networks

Cited by 242 publications

References 63 publications

Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Toward Supply Chain Sustainability: Governance and Implementation of Joint Sustainability Development

Using an online platform for the improvement of industrial symbiosis and circular economy (in Western Macedonia, Greece)

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