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Meeting consumer needs and desires, while promoting cleaner production and sustainable consumption, is one of the greatest challenges facing industry today. Addressing poverty and environmental degradation requires changing how global organizations produce and distribute goods and how people and organizations consume and dispose of them. It requires a more efficient use of resources, together with action-oriented thinking but raises a range of highly specific challenges for organizations operating in emerging economies.
Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management offers new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries. The authors present in-depth case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries, which are used to illustrate broader lessons in the implementation of sustainable practices for developing economies.
This book presents detailed findings and practical guidance to both researchers and practitioners working in the fields of business management, sustainability and green practices, as well as all those who wish to understand why organizations should integrate sustainable strategies and how to implement them.
Price: $104.99
Pages: 176
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
30 April 2019
ISBN: 9781787562165
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business, Purchasing & supply management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Business & the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business ethics & social responsibility
This volume outlines best practices in sustainable supply chain management in developing countries. It discusses the definition of sustainability and the issue of sustainable development in developing countries, various factors involved in industrial growth, and the concept of sustainable supply chain management; the origin of supply chains and the concepts, ideas, and methodologies involved, gaps in the research field, and research on sustainability practices in developing countries; the measurement of sustainability in supply chains, with discussion of a study of the Indian manufacturing sector; a qualitative approach to sustainable supply chain management, with analysis of electricity generation in Mexico; case studies related to sustainable supply chain issues in Indian organizations; and a case study of the Mexican auto industry.
Sadia Samar Ali is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia.
Rajbir Kaur is a professional consultant for human and environmental sustainability in India, engaged in the training of corporate clients.
Jose Antonio Marmolejo Saucedo is a researcher at the Panamerican University in Mexico.
Preface
Chapter 1. Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Chapter 2. Research
Implications in Supply Chain Management
Chapter 3. Measuring
Sustainability in Supply Chains
Chapter 4. Qualitative Analysis Part I: A Qualitative Approach to Sustainable Supply Chain
Management
Chapter 5. Qualitative Analysis Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 6. Sustainable
Design of Supply Networks Under Uncertainty: A Case Study in Mexican Industry