Publisher's Synopsis
Adopting sustainable practices is crucial for all businesses in the 21st century. Encyclopaedia of Green Supply Chain Management Principles, Techniques and Applications is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations and the responsible management of the entire supply chain. Based on extensive research by experts in the field, this Encyclopaedia covers the whole scope of sustainable logistics. Green supply chain management (GSCM) has emerged as an organizational philosophy in recent years. The adoption of greener practices could also increase the probability of experiencing adverse events in supply chains. Green supply chain management is defined as integrating environmental thinking into supply-chain management, including product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, and delivery of the final product. The text Green Supply Chain Management: Product Life Cycle Approach delivers the knowledge to quantify the environmental impact on supply chains and identify opportunities for making improvements, leading to both green engineering and green management of a product. The aim of first chapter is to model and examine the influential and important main GSCM practices, namely, green logistics, organizational performance, green organizational activities, environmental protection, and green supplier evaluation. Second chapter examines the consistency approaches by factor analysis that determines the adoption and implementation of green supply chain management in Taiwanese electronic industry. The purpose of third chapter is to examine the consistency between the contractor's assessment of the suppliers' capabilities related to environmental management and the suppliers' self-assessment in green supply chain management (GSCM) of the construction industry through an explorative case study. The goal of fourth chapter is to construct a decision framework by identifying a comprehensive set of consideration factors and their causal relationships. Fifth chapter presents a case study from the systems perspective by using system dynamics simulation analysis and statistical validations with empirical data. Sixth chapter investigates crucial green supply chain management (GSCM) practice dimensions and firm performance based on restaurants firms in Taiwan. Seventh chapter focuses on the exploration of environmental performance of the multinational supply chain in the Taiwanese computer industry. The aim of eighth chapter is to develop a decision-making method for prioritizing green strategies and green supply chain initiatives (GSCIs) while considering both external and internal strategic factors. Ninth chapter describes the behavior related to the barriers green supply chain management with respect to pharmaceutical companies in Karachi. The purpose of tenth chapter is to develop a GSCM model for the rubber goods manufacturing sector based on the results of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis. Last chapter proposes a hybrid multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach to evaluate performance of green suppliers because there is an increasing need to develop GSCM practices.
