Sustainability and sustainable development strategies in the U.K. plastic electronics industry

Borland, Helen; Bhatti, Yohan; Lindgreen, Adam

doi:10.1002/csr.1722

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“…Multidimensional frameworks for supply chain sustainability provide researchers and supply chain specialists with a practical measurement tool that contributes to the economic, environmental, and social supply chain in building sustainable business (Varsei, Soosay, & Sarkis, 2014). The industry has the potential to support sustainable development, which can then support industry development (Borland, Bhatti, & Lindgreen, 2019).…”

Section: Sustainable Supply Chain Managementmentioning

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Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Indicators

Narimissa

Kangarani‐Farahani

Molla‐Alizadeh‐Zavardehi

2019

Sustainable Development

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Supply chain requires simultaneous enhancement of the economic, environmental, and social performance of the business toward sustainability. For this aim, a sustainable performance assessment system is needed to be implemented for evaluating different supply chain segments and clarify supply chains' indicators. The assessment can be performed based on three sustainability dimensions: economical, environmental, and social. The first purpose of this paper helps to identify sustainability issues and highlights the gaps and inconsistencies of literature. The second purpose of the study is to identify the most important indicators of sustainability for sustainable development supply chain of Iranian Oil Company stakeholder engagement. The indicators of the sustainable supply chain are studied and collected using metasynthesis approach, and the most important indicators of sustainability were identified for the company with Delphi technique. The proposed sustainability indicators can be useful for the researchers to develop practical and comprehensive measures in their respective industries.

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Section: Sustainable Supply Chain Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Indicators

Narimissa

Kangarani‐Farahani

Molla‐Alizadeh‐Zavardehi

2019

Sustainable Development

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“…Ecocentric approaches to corporate, business, or marketing strategy, as opposed to incremental anthropocentric sustainability, are infrequently considered in the literature. An exceptional example is the plastic electronics industry in the United Kingdom (UK) which recommends that managers and policymakers support and encourage ecocentric rather than anthropocentric approaches to eco-innovations (Borland et al 2019). However, business models have yet to fully engage with sustainability as they are found to exclude natural and social aspects of organisational environment and neglect interrelationships between economic and non-economic actors as well as intertemporal trade-offs (Biloslavo et al 2018).…”

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A Transformational Change Framework for Developing Ecologically Embedded Manufacturing

Trollman

Colwill

2020

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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Unless strategies are adopted to ensure materials remain in circulation within the economy, the manufacturing sector may be unable to support increasing demand from a growing global population. The purpose of this research is to present a framework for manufacturers to aid in the formulation of ecologically embedded strategy. The framework proposes five steps which integrate corporate, business, operations and sustainability strategy in a holistic manner with operations strategy informing business strategy. Qualitative comparative analysis is implemented to identify the causal characteristics of ecologically embedded products which are then used to select two cases for the application of process tracing (PT). Product case studies indicate a failure to communicate provenance, quality and lifecycle information to consumers, and hence, the slowing or closing of loops as part of a circular economy is not being effectively realised. PT confirms the feasibility of the framework for ecocentric strategy formulation in manufacturing. Manufacturers, policymakers and investors may use this framework to leverage the benefits of ecological embeddedness to enable continued growth and future-proofing.

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“…The company will have to choose more suppliers for garment products to be able to choose the lead times for that supplier to reduce its dependency. The push and pull strategy (Spearman and Zazanis, 1992; Cook et al , 2007; Borland et al , 2019; Niu et al , 2019; Ebner et al , 2019) is used to get the products to its target market where there is risk in a pull strategy. In order to overcome the risk that may be met by a push strategy due to the large stockpiling of inventory, the company aims to use the pull strategy based on the actual needs of its customers.…”

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Dynamics of a medium value consumer apparel supply chain key parameters

Kumar

Verma

Jha³

et al. 2020

IJPPM

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PurposeThis research presents a study on the supply chain process of an Indian apparel industry considering various parameters involved. The study aims to identify the main parameters to improve the supply chain process and develop a comprehensive structural relationship to rank them to streamline the apparel supply chain process and business environment.Design/methodology/approachThe team of five experts from this apparel industry was made to give scores to multiple parameters. The TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) technique is used to develop the model for eleven key parameters and then rank them.FindingsBased on the data analysis the planning, customer and warehouse storage have emerged as top three key parameters while the non-replenishment approach, push and pull strategy and manufacturing of the product are identified as the bottom three parameters from a hierarchy level. These parameters have been ranked based on their contributing attributes in this apparel supply chain process.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides an overall ranking of parameters and the implications are in the direction of helping the industry to improve its supply chain performances rather than focus only on productivity. Further, the key parameters are identified as critical inputs and show that the firms are being more proactive and well prepared comprised of the industry.Originality/valueThe study indicates that the key parameters are identified by this apparel brand to improve its supply chain process. The key supply chain process involves planning, manufacturing, distribution, end customer and returns logistics of the goods, etc. So, this research also provides the focused parameters on the supply chain performance received by end customer from the supplier and rank them for effectiveness and improve their overall organizational performance. It also provides a critical observation of their supply chain process improvement which includes different brand uses, strategies and approaches.

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Sustainability and sustainable development strategies in the U.K. plastic electronics industry

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Indicators

Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Indicators

A Transformational Change Framework for Developing Ecologically Embedded Manufacturing

Dynamics of a medium value consumer apparel supply chain key parameters

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