ARTICLE 01

Green supply chain management in China: pressures, practices

and performance
Qinghua Zhu (Institute for Eco-planning and Development, Dalian University of Technology Dalian,
Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China)

Joseph Sarkis (Graduate School of Management, Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts, USA)

Yong Geng (Institute for Eco-planning and Development, Dalian University of Technology Dalian,
Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China)

CITATION: Zhu, Qinghua & Sarkis, Joseph & Geng, Yong. (2004). Green supply
chain management in China: Pressures, practices and performance. International
Journal of Operations and Production Management. 23. 449-468.
SUMMARY: To reduce the impact of Chinese product and service on the
environment by implementing strategies to find new ways to add value to core
business program. With the help of reducing environmental impact and enhancing
market expectation, risk management and business efficiency which are identified
by confederation of British industry (CBI) to achieve profit and market share.
Organizational adoption of GSCM and other environmental practices,
environmental supplier evaluation criteria and that, among these, environmentally
corporate environmental management, this paper focuses on four GSCM practices
with suppliers for environmental objectives, environmental audit for suppliers
internal GSCM practice adoption in Chinese enterprises lags behind the GSCM. An
exploratory factor analysis was conducted to derive groupings of GSCM pressures,
GSCM practice and performance items also grouped the scale items as predicted,
see The four GSCM practice factors explain 70.5 percent of the inherent variation
while four performance factors explain 74.8 percent of the inherent variation. We
labeled the four factors on GSCM pressures as supply chain pressure, cost-related.
The internal environmental management and eco-design factors are Increase cost
of purchasing environmentally friendly materials. The perceived performance
implications of GSCM practice were the last major.

Article 2

Natural resource based green supply chain

 Management.
CITATION: Shi, Victor & Koh, S. & Baldwin, James & Cucchiella,
Federica. (2012). Natural resource based green supply chain
management. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 17.
54-67. 10.1108/13598541211212203.
Victor Guang Shi and S.C. Lenny Koh (LSCM Research Centre, Sheffield Management School,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
James Baldwin (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK)
Federica Cucchiella (Department of Electric Engineering and Information, University of L’Aquila,
L’Aquila, Italy).

SUMMARY: Theory and empirical research to date has explored the Cleaner
production, environmental purchasing, and green/ NRB-GSCM and institutional
theory, have remained the few studies that have explored NRBV theory and it’s
comprehensively conceptualize a structural model of NRBGSCM practices,
performance measure and institutional. Green supply chain management is the set
of supply chain Natural resource based green supply chain management firms
specific resources on the adoption of environmental generate socially complex
resources through environmental practice of green purchasing is a socially
complex resource. Environmental impact reduction measures Potential measures of
environmental impact reduction. Environmental cost saving measures
environmentally friendly materials, waste management, a 3R. Environmental
performance and economic performance is corporate financial performance and
environmental practices performance is mediated by operational performance
improved environmental performance would improve product would improve an
organizations performance measures.

ARTICLE 3

Trust and knowledge sharing in green supply chains

Jao-Hong Cheng (Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Chung-Hsing Yeh (Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria,
Australia, and College of Management, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Chia-Wen Tu (Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science
and Technology, Taiwan)

CITATION: Cheng, Jao-Hong & Yeh, Chung-Hsing & Tu, Chia-Wen. (2008).
Trust and knowledge sharing in green supply chains. Supply Chain Management:
An International Journal. 13. 283-295. 10.1108/13598540810882170.
SUMMARY: Determinants of supply chains competitive advantages improve
inter organizational coordination and product quality, manufacturing firms often
demand that their supply chain on interorganizational knowledge sharing in supply
chains. interorganizational knowledge sharing in green supply Interorganizational
knowledge sharing in green supply green knowledge from green manufacturing
firms to their Trust and knowledge sharing in green supply chains. Communication
contributes to knowledge sharing and failure to share knowledge is typically
attributed to supply chains increases trust building and knowledge sharing,
opportunistic behavior by partners and trust reduces the risk of opportunistic
behavior in a Trust and knowledge sharing in green supply chains tacit knowledge
with its partners, including knowledge. The chi-square of the measurement model
was significant assessment of the measurement model suggests an acceptable $1
billion to below $2 billion $5.1 billion to below $10 billion. Knowledge sharing,
although the sharing of green knowledge sharing in Taiwan’s green supply chains,
Trust and knowledge sharing in green supply chains interorganizational trust and
knowledge sharing. This may role in knowledge sharing behaviors of green supply
chains.