Challenges Evaluation for Adoption of SCP Practices in Footwear Industry of Bangladesh: A DEMATEL Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kauser Ali ◽  
Md. Abdul Moktadir ◽  
Aftab Ali Shaikh ◽  
Amal Kanti Deb ◽  
Md. Rashed-Ul-Islam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Study Results

The footwear industry needs a sustainable business environment due to its remarkable contributions to the economic growth of a country. Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) practices in the footwear industry can act as a pivotal driving factor for sustainable development in footwear sector of Bangladesh. The implementation of SCP practices is not an easy task for the footwear industry since there are numerous challenges in the existing supply chain. Meanwhile, the literature reveals that the lack of studies on relevant industry motivates to carry out this research. Therefore, this research focuses on the state-of-the-art literature by identifying and finding interactions among challenges to SCP practices in the footwear supply chain. Five experts from five reputed and export-oriented footwear industries were assigned to find out the challenges regarding the SCP implementation and the most important 10 challenges were identified based on experts’ feedback. To assess the cause–effect relationship among challenges, a decision-making trail and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique, a powerful decision-making tool which can find the interactions among factors, was employed. In this study, results showed that five challenges were identified as causal group challenges and remaining five identified as effect group challenges. The causal challenges are lack of top management commitment, absence of market information of green products, inadequate training facility on SCP, motivational gap among consumers, and lack of rules and regulations on SCP practices. Those challenges have net positive influence on effect group challenges such as poor compliance practices, lack of latest technological facility, lack of acceptance on green products, lack of reverse logistics facility, and poor linkage and coordination among lead firms. These results will assist decision-makers to make strategic policy regarding implementing SCP in the footwear supply chain. This study is the first one which deals with the importance of SCP practices in the context of footwear industry, and it is also important for the sustainable development of footwear sector of Bangladesh.

The Role of the Insurance Industry to Promote Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-20
Author(s):  
Soumya Sasidharan ◽  
Dr. V.K. Ranjith ◽  
Dr. Sunitha Prabhuram
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sustainable Insurance

In today's world concept sustainable development is the most important aspect of any organization. This paper aims to identify the contribution of the insurance industry and its role in promoting sustainability. The definition of "sustainable development means without compromising the need of the future the present need of the society must be fulfilled in a competitive business environment"(World Commission on environment and development,WCED,1987). Sustainable insurance is the new concept that emerges in the current state, that every country adopting now. The insurance industry plays a vital role in development of sustainable business through green products and services. This paper is focused on the secondary sources of data from research publications, websites, books, journals, and articles. Sustainable insurance is aimed primarily at developing innovative or green products and services, reducing risk, improving company efficiency, and supporting environmental, social, and financial sustainability. Sustainable insurance indicates to maintain a balance between the society and insurance industry without squandering the resources of nature for the growth and enhancement of the whole community. Keywords: Insurance, Sustainability, Green products and services, Sustainable insurance.

scholarly journals Sustainable Technologies Supported by Project-Based Learning in the Education of Engineers: A Case Study from Poland

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Marzena Podgórska ◽  
Iwona Zdonek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
Visualization Techniques

The aim of the article is to examine technological innovations developed by engineers as part of Project-Based Learning at one of the Polish technical universities. We examined whether the innovations being developed meet the goals of sustainable development and whether they provide the basis for the introduction of sustainable business models. We analyzed reports from 49 projects implemented in the years 2018–2020 in which 146 scientists, 282 students of the Silesian University of Technology, and 126 experts from the university’s business environment were involved. We performed the analysis using content analysis and visualization techniques. The results show that the studied innovations implement the goals of sustainable development and most of them may become the basis of sustainable business models. The most frequently pursued goals are Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and Good Health and Well-Being. Most of the studied innovations can become the basis of the archetype of a sustainable business model called “maximize material and energy efficacy”. We also provide the characteristics of projects that implement the diagnosed goals of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Modeling the Influence of Information Systems on Sustainable Business Performance and Competitiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9619
Author(s):  
Natasa Djalic ◽  
Milan Nikolic ◽  
Mihalj Bakator ◽  
Zivko Erceg
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Challenging Environment

The necessity for sustainable development, the coronavirus pandemic, and conducting business within the frameworks of the fourth industrial revolution—Industry 4.0 create a challenging environment where enterprises have difficulties to achieve and maintain competitiveness. Information is becoming a core construct when it comes to conducting business in the modern, globalized business environment. In this paper, the influence of information systems (IS) on sustainable business performance and competitiveness is analyzed. Additionally, the influence of human resource management (HRM) and decision making (DM) on sustainable business performance and competitiveness, as two crucial constructs in the new paradigm of conducting business, are addressed. The relations are discussed from the aspect of sustainable development and future post-pandemic business trends. The main goal is to determine the relations between the noted constructs in a transitional setting. In sum, 184 manufacturing enterprises from Republika Srpska were surveyed via a structured survey, where the focus was on quantifying and modeling the influence of IS, HRM, and DM on sustainable business performance. The results indicate that IS, HRM, DM can affect business performance in a transitional economic setting. This approach is novel, as the existing body of literature does not address all the noted influencing factors on sustainable business performance and competitiveness in a transition economy. Hence, this paper significantly contributes to the existing body of literature and provides a solid basis for future research in this domain.

scholarly journals Sustainable development and sharing economy: A bibliometric analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ruihui Pu ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Pujiayi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Sustainable Business Models

Sustainability promotes a feasible strategy to achieve a continuous development of the economy, society, and environment. This study aims to analyze the growing efforts on researches made by academic communities in exploring the sharing economy as a potential approach to promote sustainable development. A bibliometric approach with VOSviewer and COOC analysis was applied. A total number of 975 published articles were analyzed in this study. As a result, it was found that few studies have shed light on collaborative and sustainable consumption, climate change, and bioeconomy in the sharing economy by country, such as renewable resources and business models, circular economy in China, and life cycle assessment, particularly taking evidence from the urban mobility services in China. It was also revealed that there is a new indiscipline research trend in the field of sustainable development such as sustainable business models, game theory, blue economy, peer-to-peer accommodation, smart grids, and electric vehicles. Other trend concentrates on technological advancements and policies to promote sustainable development in the sharing economy.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Supply Chain Evolution and Revolution Drivers on Firm Performances and Global Competitiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Alie Wube Dametew
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Comparative Advantages

The main purpose of this paper is traces to investigate the drivers of supply chain evolution & revolution and their impacts on firm performance and competitiveness. Through field observation and questionnaire survey, a literature review was supported by an empirical study on supply chain evolution and revolution drivers, the impacts on firm performance and comparative advantages were included. The horizontal relation on the drivers of supply chain integrations was empirically investigated and tested. The primary data and field observation were collected from 21 Ethiopian basic metal industries and 91 respondents incorporated as a case company. Followed by the investigation and explored on how supply chain drivers impacts on firm performance and comparative advantage of manufacturing industries incorporated. While globalization, the digital revolution, social media throughout the society, innovation and new product developments are considered as the main drivers of supply chain evolution and revolutions. Commonly, this supply chain evolution and revolution drivers have a positive impact on firm performance and global competitiveness. Further, the result shows that depending on their type and supply chain scenario the drivers of supply chain evolution and revolution have both positive and negative impacts on firm performances and comparative advantages. Moreover paper investigated the relationship between supply chain evolution and the evolution drivers linkages o supply chain performance and comparative advantages, so that management will be able to pursue better supply chain strategies applicable directly to their business environment. Nevertheless, the study results provide the organization with innovative insights for, controlling adoption and implementation supply chain drivers in the firms. 

scholarly journals Greenness and Pricing Decisions of Cooperative Supply Chains Considering Altruistic Preferences

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Huang ◽  
Juan Zhang ◽  
Xuan Ren ◽  
Xiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Pricing Decisions ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Preference Coefficient

With the development of the economy and science technology, global resource shortages and environmental pressures have become the focus of attention. More and more consumers tend to buy non-polluting and environmentally friendly green products, and many manufacturers and retailers are beginning to produce or sell green products to enhance their competitive advantage in the market. Considering the green preference attributes of consumers, the altruistic preference is introduced into the supply chain, and we establish four models: two cooperative manufacturers and one retailer are completely self-interested, one retailer has altruistic preference, two cooperative manufacturers have altruistic preferences, and two cooperative manufacturers and one retailer have altruistic preferences. We address the optimal greenness and pricing decisions of supply chain members, and analyze the impact of altruistic preferences on supply chain decision-making and profits. The results show that the altruistic preference coefficient can significantly affect the decision-making and the profits of supply chain members, and when two manufacturers and one retailer consider altruistic preferences, the altruistic preference coefficients adopted by the three parties are in the certain ranges, the supply chain members’ altruistic preference coefficients can increase the whole supply chain profit. Through analysis, in the three cases where the retailer has altruistic preferences, two manufacturers have altruistic preferences, and two manufacturers and one retailer have altruistic preferences, two manufacturers should adopt higher altruistic preference coefficients, and the retailer should adopt a lower altruistic preference coefficient, and the product greenness under the three altruistic preferences is higher than the product greenness when there is no altruistic preference.

Building Theory of Green Procurement using Fuzzy TISM and Fuzzy DEMATEL Methods

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surajit Bag
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Fuzzy Dematel ◽  
Green Procurement ◽  
Expert Interview

Green procurement is the set of procurement policies held, action taken and relationships formed in response to concerns linked with the natural environment. Green procurement has drawn major attention of supply chain practitioners' and has become the theme of most of the seminars and workshops. Green procurement is gaining popularity due to its positive association with the triple bottom line. Firms implement green procurement to achieve sustainability in this dynamic business environment. There are several published papers that have adopted either qualitative or quantitative methodology to build and test theories in the discipline of green procurement. However multiple elements influencing green procurement creates decision making problem among supply chain practitioners. This has motivated to pursue the current study and further extend the theory of green procurement. The main purpose of the current study is to investigate the inter-relationships between elements of green procurement using advanced multi criteria decision making techniques. First systematic review of literature is done to identify the leading drivers. Secondly these drivers were refined through expert interview from manufacturing sector. Thirdly Fuzzy TISM and Fuzzy DEMATEL method were applied to find the intensity of influence of green procurement drivers and make a comparative study of elements. Finally, the conclusions of research are drawn and also present the managerial implications and directions of future research.

scholarly journals A New Hybrid MCDM Model: Sustainable Supplier Selection in a Construction Company

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Matić ◽  
Stanislav Jovanović ◽  
Dillip Kumar Das ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Željko Stević ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Construction Company ◽  
Sustainable Supplier Selection ◽  
Product Assessment ◽  
Simple Additive Weighting ◽  
Selection Of

Sustainable development is one of the most important preconditions for preserving resources and balanced functioning of a complete supply chain in different areas. Taking into account the complexity of sustainable development and a supply chain, different decisions have to be made day-to-day, requiring the consideration of different parameters. One of the most important decisions in a sustainable supply chain is the selection of a sustainable supplier and, often the applied methodology is multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). In this paper, a new hybrid MCDM model for evaluating and selecting suppliers in a sustainable supply chain for a construction company has been developed. The evaluation and selection of suppliers have been carried out on the basis of 21 criteria that belong to all aspects of sustainability. The determination of the weight values of criteria has been performed applying the full consistency method (FUCOM), while a new rough complex proportional assessment (COPRAS) method has been developed to evaluate the alternatives. The rough Dombi aggregator has been used for averaging in group decision-making while evaluating the significance of criteria and assessing the alternatives. The obtained results have been checked and confirmed using a sensitivity analysis that implies a four-phase procedure. In the first phase, the change of criteria weight was performed, while, in the second phase, rough additive ratio assessment (ARAS), rough weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS), rough simple additive weighting (SAW), and rough multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) have been applied. The third phase involves changing the parameter ρ in the modeling of rough Dombi aggregator, and the fourth phase includes the calculation of Spearman’s correlation coefficient (SCC) that shows a high correlation of ranks.

scholarly journals Consumption-Intention Formation in Education for Sustainable Development: An Adapted Model Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deidre Bauer ◽  
Julia Arnold ◽  
Kerstin Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Consumption Decisions ◽  
Spatial Aspect ◽  
Intention Formation ◽  
Consumption Intentions ◽  
Consumption Decision

Global biosphere issues call for an education for sustainable consumption decisions. Enabling adolescent learners to form sustainable consumption intentions involves an understanding of underlying internal predictors. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) delivers a useful approach to this challenge. Understanding of the underlying motives behind sustainable consumption decision-making, however, requires knowledge and evaluation of three basic sustainability aspects, the generational, the coherence, and the spatial aspect. As yet, the TPB framework does not take account of those facets. In this paper, we propose an extension of the TPB that meets these shortcomings by integrating the sustainability aspects while including the concepts of sustainability knowledge and sustainability values into the existing model. Furthermore, we extended the functional range of the attitude construct to the three sustainability aspects. The objective of the present article is to introduce and discuss the adapted framework which can serve as a first step for an educational implementation of the concept of sustainable consumption.

Exploring the influence of supply chain collaboration on supply chain visibility, stakeholder trust, environmental and financial performances: a partial least square approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Baah ◽  
Innocent Senyo Kwasi Acquah ◽  
Daniel Ofori
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Results

PurposeThe need to stay competitive amidst ever-changing business environment has shifted competitive strategies from firms to supply chains. Managers are now basing competitive strategies on supply chains acknowledging that supply chains present competitive advantages among other resources. The purpose of the study is to explore the predictive relevance of supply chain collaboration and the extent to which it influences supply chain visibility, stakeholder trust, environmental and financial performances. This study focused on manufacturing firms due to their supplier relationships, consumption of resources, energy and emissions of greenhouse gasses.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a survey research design, a quantitative approach and partial least square structural equation modelling technique in making data analysis and interpretations due to its suitability for predictive research models as is the case in this study.FindingsThe study hypothesized that supply chain collaboration positively and significantly interacts with supply chain visibility, stakeholder trust, environmental and financial performances. The study results confirmed supply chain collaboration as a significant, positive and a robust influence on supply chain visibility, stakeholder trust, environmental and financial performances thereby projecting win-win scenarios for firms that engage in collaborative supply chain practices.Originality/valueThe study is among the few to indicate findings in relation to the scope of supply chain collaboration's potency in influencing performance from the perspective of manufacturing firms operational in an emerging economy. Thus, this study contributes to understanding the wider scope of supply chain collaboration, its interactions with other firm variables and how it informs decisions of managers, scholars and supply chain partners.

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