The relevance of green practices worldwide: an overview

Abstract

Purpose The paper consists of a literature review about the green supply chain management (GSCM), a concept which has been gaining ground around the organizations worldwide. The traditional supply chain (SC) was forced to evolve in GSCM as an option for companies to improve their economical, operational and environmental performance. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how green practices (GP) have a powerful dependence to the SC execution from companies around the world. A GP can be briefly defined as the actions being consciously done being responsible to the environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper is exploratory. The topic was delimited through a review of similar papers, analyzing the different type of tools and the GP considered in each paper. For last, a conclusion will be exposed. Findings The “green movement” within the SC is increasing fast around the world, since the increasing awareness of industrialized countries are recurring in practices that impact directly to the environment. Therefore, costs of extra energy consumption are generated, as well as the imminent worrying reputation among customers due to the lack of responsibility to the environment. Research limitations/implications The document only covers the topic from a theoretical aspect through a literature review. Originality/value This paper covers not only strategies related to GSCM and GP from European and Asian countries are approached, but also Latin American performance, exposing briefly the adoption of GSCM.

Mapping and Assessing Green Entrepreneurial Performance: Evidence from a Vertically Integrated Organic Beverages Supply Chain

“…Results showed that BSC and SM are effective tools in managing the GESCM performance of a successful manufacturing network in an emerging market. Findings of this research supported Sarkis (2012) and Dorantes et al (2018), who asserted that despite the challenges in GSCM implementation (e.g., convincing the SC stakeholders of its importance in spite of its high initial costs), the benefits of applying GSCM in terms of having long-term economic and environmental gains exceed its associated risks.…”

“…Concerning its activities, Hervani et al (2005) formulated an equation for GSCM that illustrates internal and external coordination of cross-functional practices (green purchasing, manufacturing/operations, marketing/distribution and reverse logistics). Such GSCM formula was also pointed out by other papers (Dorantes et al, 2018; Fernando et al, 2018; Mutingi et al, 2014; Tonape & Owk, 2013; Wang et al, 2013) while calling for an enhanced environment-friendly performance. Those green practices were studied by management researchers differently either individually, such as by concentrating only on one GSCM function: green production (Heidrich & Tiwary, 2013), green marketing (Dangelico & Vocalelli, 2017; Dean & Pacheco, 2014), and green human resource management (HRM) (Singh et al, 2020), or collaboratively from an SC perspective (Yu et al, 2014; Zhu et al, 2018).…”

“…Considerable interest in the literature has been directed towards various SCM strategies to support manufacturing/service organisations in sustaining inimitable competitive advantages across their SCs (Al-Turki et al, 2008; Lau, 2007); for example, GSCM attracted increasing attention from recent studies that called for its implementation (Diabat et al, 2013; Green et al, 2012; Guo & Tsai, 2015; Hassan et al, 2013; Khalilzadeh & Derikvand, 2018; Luthra et al, 2014; Özlen & Omerhodžić, 2013; Malviya & Kant, 2015; Maryam Masoumi et al, 2015; Masoumik et al, 2015; Sharma & Gandhi, 2016; Yu et al, 2014). In the light of the aforementioned SCM definition, Luthra et al (2014) and other scholars pointed out that GSCM strategy can be viewed as embedding multidisciplinary environmental thoughts into the philosophy of SCM (Abdallah et al, 2012; Dorantes et al, 2018; Jackson & Singh, 2015; Luthra et al, 2014; Singh & Trivedi, 2016; Yu et al, 2014). Thus, green SCM strategy was also termed in the literature as environmental SCM (Green et al, 2012; Hassan et al, 2013).…”

“…On the other hand, Abd-Rahman et al (2014) concluded that GSCM practices have a positive impact on the organisational financial and market performance as well as customers’ satisfaction. Despite the challenges of its initial implementation, the benefits of applying GSCM in terms of having long-term economic and environmental gains exceed its associated risks (Dorantes et al, 2018; Sarkis, 2012).…”

In quest of green practices in manufacturing industries through literature review

“…EMPs are those techniques, policies and procedures which are used by firms that are specifically aimed at monitoring and controlling the impact of its operations on the natural environment (Montabon et al , 2007). GPs are defined as activities or strategies applied by the organisation to lessen the negative environmental impacts (Awaysheh and Klassen, 2010; Dorantes et al , 2018).…”