scholarly journals Channel Structure Strategies of Supply Chains with Varying Green Cost and Governmental Interventions

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Deyan Yang ◽  
Jinyong Wang ◽  
Dongping Song
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Channel Structure ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Cost ◽  
Retail Prices ◽  
Governmental Intervention ◽  
Demand Sensitivity ◽  
The Impact

Environmental concerns make enterprises pay more attention to green manufacturing. The emerging green supply chain inevitably will compete with the traditional supply chain. In order to evaluate the competitiveness of supply chains and the impact on channel structure strategy, we develop four game models for two competing supply chains according to their channel structure strategies. Green marginal manufacturing cost, demand sensitivity of green level, and governmental interventions are considered. We study how retail prices, green levels, and profits are influenced by channel structure choice and governmental interventions. Analytical results indicate that the substitutability of products affects channel structure strategy. When the substitutability of products is relatively low, centralization–centralization is the unique Nash equilibrium. However, when the substitutability of products is relatively high, both centralization–centralization and decentralization–decentralization are the Nash equilibriums. Centralization–centralization is a prisoner dilemma, while decentralization–decentralization can make the green supply chain achieve optimal profit. Then, the green marginal manufacturing cost and demand sensitivities of the green level play important but different roles in channel structure strategy of the competing supply chains. Further, whether Nash equilibriums are the optimal strategy depends on governmental intervention. Relatively severe governmental intervention might realize a relatively higher green level, but may not always achieve the lowest retail price for the green supply chain. However, a relatively moderate governmental intervention might achieve a relatively lower green level.

scholarly journals The impact of green supply chain management in small to medium enterprises: Cross-sectional evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengedzai Mafini ◽  
Asphat Muposhi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

Background: South Africa has a high rate of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) failure, especially in the manufacturing sector. The operational challenges confronting manufacturing SMEs are acknowledged by the Global Competitiveness Index that ranked South African SMEs as one of the lowest in emerging economies.Objectives: The aim of this study is to examine the association between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices, environmental collaboration and financial performance in SMEs.Method: The study is quantitative in nature and involves a convenient sample of 312 SMEs based in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Data analyses follow a two-step process involving a confirmatory factor analysis to test the psychometric properties of the measurement scale and Structural Equation Modelling to test the proposed hypotheses.Results: The study shows that three GSCM practices, namely, green procurement, green logistics and green manufacturing in SMEs exert a positive effect on environmental collaboration, with green manufacturing exerting a higher effect than the other two constructs. In turn, higher levels of environmental collaboration inspired higher levels of SME financial performance.Conclusion: The study advances that SMEs can succeed financially through the influence of enhanced environmental collaboration, which emanates, in part, from the adoption and implementation of GSCM practices.

scholarly journals The effect of green supply chain practices on firm sustainability performance: Evidence from Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Adnan Sarwar ◽  
Aqsa Zafar ◽  
Muhammad Ali Hamza ◽  
Alia Qadir
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Likelihood Method ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Impact

Environmental issues are most important among the current global concerns, and business activities are seen as a cause of significant threat to the environment due to environmentally non-friendly practices by various industries that cause pollution. However, the implementation of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in developing countries like Pakistan is still inconclusive. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of GSCM dimensions on economic, environmental, and social performance. The five dimensions covered in this research are green purchasing, green manufacturing and remanufacturing, environmental education, internal environmental management, and investment recovery. A survey questionnaire was prepared that consists of green practices as well as a performance indicator. Factor analysis maximum likelihood method was used to examine the survey data of Pakistani organizations. The results of this study indicate that GSCM practices have a positive impact on environmental, economic, and social performance. This research shows organizations are aware of improving their performance while adopting green supply chain practices.

The Impact of Green Supply Chain on Enterprise Performance: In the Perspective of China

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 263-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan ◽  
Qianli Dong ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Syed Shahid Khan
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Enterprise Performance ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Green Purchasing ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Impact

This study explores the impact of green supply chain (GSC) practices on the enterprise performance in the context of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. A sample of 415 companies’ data was collected from the Chinese manufacturing industry. There are five predictors, including green distribution, green purchasing, green manufacturing, green information system, and eco-design, that were measured for the GSC practices. The GSC practices were measured by five predictors, including green distribution, green purchasing, green manufacturing, green information system, and eco-design. By using exploratory analysis and linear multiple regression analysis, the findings show that except for green distribution, rest of the independent variables have been found to be positively significant to predict enterprise performance. However, the green purchasing has revealed the greatest impact on enterprise performance. Therefore, senior management of the enterprises should implement green practices in their supply chain to increase the overall performance. In future, researchers can conduct comparative studies between manufacturing industry and other industries. In addition, they may bring in some other independent variables, including green logistics, co-operation with customers, and green transportation system. In this research, we estimate the economic and environmental performances together as enterprise performance. But in future, researchers may also calculate the economic and environmental performances separately.

scholarly journals Exclusivity or Competitor Retail? Impacts of Channel Structures on Multinational Supply Chains considering Green Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Luqing Rong ◽  
Maozeng Xu ◽  
Xiaofeng Chen ◽  
Qian Wen
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Revenue Sharing Contract ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Competitive Structure

The development of green supply chains by multinational manufacturers (MNMs) in emerging markets promotes a better corporate reputation and competitive advantage. Selecting viable marketing channels will help reduce risks in overseas markets while positively impacting the green level and the stakeholders. This paper analyzes channel decisions under different scenarios in a game analytical framework and identifies that both exclusive and competitive channels promote the green supply chain, and that the latter leads to a higher green level and benefits the local manufacturer. Whatever profit-seeking or corporate social responsibility- (CSR-) seeking follows, the MNM prefers the competitive channel when the green research and development (R&D) investment coefficient is relatively low and vice versa for the exclusive channel. Moreover, transaction cost undermines the green supply chain, the competitive structure lowers the loss of greenness, and the exclusionary mode raises the MNM’s profits. Another interesting finding is when subsidies are offered by the importing country, the competitive structure is more conducive to the green and the participant’s gains, while the exclusive structure is detrimental to the green and only advantageous for the domestic manufacturer’s benefits. Besides, the revenue-sharing contract results in a higher green level of the supply chain in the channels than before, but the MNM tends to select the exclusive marketing channel with a relatively lower green level due to the profits. Subject to the findings, we propose an improved revenue-sharing contract that achieves the MNM’s competitive retailing option and ensures the emergence of the manufacturers’ win-win solution.

The Impact of Green Supply Chain Management on Firm’s Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 2040026
Author(s):  
Sara Jassim ◽  
Muneer Al-Mubarak ◽  
Allam Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Green Marketing ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Green Packaging ◽  
The Impact

As the world grows and develops, people become more aware of business operational processes that are extremely harmful to our environment. Recently, customers’ demands, and governmental legislations have forced domestic and global organizations to implement environmentally sustainable practices in order to cure what has been damaged in the previous decades. This study focuses on the impact of green supply chain management practices on firm’s performance. These practices are green purchasing, green packaging, green manufacturing, green design and green marketing. A questionnaire was circulated among two companies of two industries: shipping and automobile. 80 managers and supervisors were targeted; 59 responses were received indicating a response rate of (74%). For testing, regression analysis and T-test were used. From the analysis, it was found that most of green practices influence firm’s performance with green manufacturing the most adopted practice that shapes the industries, followed by green marketing and green purchasing. On the other hand, little impact was found in green packaging and negative impact of green design on firm’s performance. Overall, the study indicates that the tested sample is moving towards the green concept but still it is in its first stages and needs more efforts and support from firms, suppliers and customers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Top Management’s Support on the Collaboration of Green Supply Chain Participants and Environmental Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9090
Author(s):  
Jungeun Lee ◽  
Hye-Young Joo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Theoretical Mechanism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the support of top management significantly improves the level of environmental collaboration with participating companies upstream and downstream of the green supply chain and the impact on environmental performance. The results of the empirical analysis of 301 companies that are establishing a green supply chain are as follows. First, top management’s support positively affects the level of collaboration with suppliers and customers in the green supply chain. Secondly, support from top management has a direct impact on the company’s environmental performance. Thirdly, the environmental collaboration of participating companies partially plays a mediation role between the support of top management and the environmental performance. This study has significance in that it analyzes the theoretical mechanism of top management’s support for environmental collaboration with participating companies, leading to environmental performance, and draws implications.

System dynamics model of production-inventory-routing system in the green supply chain

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Katayoun Naderi ◽  
Roya M. Ahari ◽  
Javid Jouzdani ◽  
Atefeh Amindoust
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Ideal Condition ◽  
Inventory Routing ◽  
Production Inventory ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Maximum Production Rate

Fierce competition in the global markets forced companies to improve the design and management of supply chains, because companies are always looking for more profit and higher customer satisfaction. The emergence of the green supply chain is one of the most important developments of the last decade. It provides an opportunity for companies to adjust their supply chains according to environmental goals and sustainability. The integrated production-inventory-routing is a new field that aims to optimize these three decision-making levels. It can be described as follow: a factory produces one or more products, and sells them to several customers (by direct delivery or a specific customer chain). The current study aims to model a production-inventory-routing system using a system dynamics approach to design a green supply chain under uncertain conditions. For this purpose, first, the association between selected variables was determined. Then, the proposed model was validated. Finally, to identify variables with the highest influence, four scenarios were developed. The results indicated that minimum total transportation cost, the total warehouse capacity of the supply chain, and the maximum production rate are the most influential strategies to achieve ideal condition.

scholarly journals Developing Knowledge of Supply Chain Resilience in Less-Developed Countries in the Pandemic Age

Logistics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
João M. Lopes ◽  
Sofia Gomes ◽  
Lassana Mané
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Supply Chain Resilience ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The Impact

The constraints imposed by the pandemic COVID-19 increased the risks of the disruption of supply chains, bringing new challenges to companies. These effects were felt more intensely in less-developed countries, which are highly dependent on imports of products and raw materials. This study aims to assess the impact of supply chain resilience in a less-developed country (Guinea-Bissau) using complex adaptive system theory. We used a qualitative methodology through multiple case studies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four companies. The semi-structured script contains questions about supply chain disruptions, vulnerabilities and resilience. The main results show that the companies in Guinea-Bissau, due to their dependence on the outside world and the absence of formal, larger and more diversified supply chains, suffered serious consequences with the disruption imposed by the pandemic. It was also concluded that the more resilient the supply chain, the fewer the impacts of crisis events and that the resilience of companies at this level depends on their obtaining competitive advantages over their competitors. The main practical implications of this study are the need to formalize the supply chain, diversify the supply of services and products of companies dependent on the exterior, adopt metrics that allow for the early detection of situations of supply chain disruption, effectively manage stocks and promote proactive crisis resolution strategies. Studies on the impact of resilience on supply chains in crises are scarce, especially on companies located in underdeveloped countries.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Milovanovic ◽  
◽  
Tamara Stankovic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Automotive Supply Chain ◽  
Automotive Supply ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Chain Level

Health crises have an impact on supply chains, mainly by disrupting their regular activities. In this research, the authors have analyzed the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has made on business relationships between supply chain partners in the automotive industry and their suppliers, which are mostly from territories where the initial outbreak of the SARS COV 2 virus occurred. The analysis shows that in some cases, there is a strong dependency between the pandemic and production levels. Being dependent prevents supply chains from maintaining stability and causes system vulnerabilities. The authors conclude their work with a thesis on the pronounced impact of the current pandemic on automotive supply chain activities. For the analysis to be complete, it is necessary to monitor changes in production levels further, since data for the current year still does not provide a realistic insight into all the consequences at the supply chain level.

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