مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد شناسایی عوامل بحرانی مدیریت زنجیره تامین سبز – الزویر 2018

Due to the increase in environmental pressures and desire for economic wellbeing, Green Supply Chain Management has emerged as an important strategy that can contribute to sustainability performance enhancement (Ruiz-Benitez et al., 2017). In fact, the concept of GSCM is to integrate environmental thinking into supply chain management (Srivastava, 2007; Cooper et al., 1997). In Pakistan GSCM is still in its developing stages since it not been a long time that industries are implementing these practices (Government of Pakistan, 2015). With the increase of the environmental constraints it becomes essential for a company to carry out the GSCM practices efficiently and to improve its environmental image (Sheu et al., 2005; Sheu et al., 2005; Hansmann and Kroger, 2001). In fact, through advantage of GSCM practice, companies can select from a wide variety of suppliers and to eliminate the environmental impacts of supply chain activities Thus, new opportunities that help against the competition and also in including new values into the business must be explored (Hansmann and Kroger, 2001). But, as stated by Grim (Grimm et al., 2014) in reality the implementation of GMSM practices has numerous difficulties. It would be relevant investigate effectively practices to address suppliers’ environmental performance according to the specific need of each national and regional context. Unfortunately, research on this issue is relatively immature. For the above reasons, this research aims to investigate the industrial scenario in Pakistan. According to literature review and companies surveys three main dimensions: 1) organizational involvement; 2) supplier selection; and eco-design are identified that contribute towards the GSCM practices (Tseng et al., 2009). The dimensions are further divided into their respective factors: 1) commitment from senior managers; 2) commitment from mid-level managers; 3) improvement by cross-functional corporations; 4) ISO 14001 certification; 5) environmental quality management; 6) cooperation with suppliers, 7) audit of suppliers, 8) ISO 14000 certification; 9) environmental friendly second-tier suppliers, 10) reduced material/energy consumption, 11) reuse/recycle of material; and 12) recycle of waste heat. The main goal of this study is to identify, using the DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method, the critical dimensions and factors in GSCM developing an interrelationship between the dimensions of GSCM and also among their respective factors in order to promote environmental improvement actions within ten Pakistani companies. The direct and indirect affect among criteria, and computes the causal relationship and strength among GSCM factor is analyzed. The advantage of the DEMATEL method is the capability of revealing the relationship between these factors which influence other factors. Data were collected to identify to find key factor criteria to improve performance and provides a novel approach of decision-making information in GSCM implementation. The rest of the study is organized as follows: Section 3 analyses literature review on this topic; in Section 5 the methodological approach is described; Section 7 describes the analysis and the case study; Section 2 discusses the main results obtained; and finally in Section 6 certain conclusions are drawn and potential issues and opportunities in the realm of GSCM are identified.