Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Trade-offs between environmental and cost performance

By Ali Esfahbodi, Yufeng Zhang, Glyn Watson. 2016

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Manufacturing firms in developing countries have recently started to adopt sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) to manage their environmental responsibility. However, achieving sustainable production within a SSCM context has been one of the most pressing challenges in emerging markets, as it may not involve securing financial benefits. Given the scarcity of empirical evidence, this study raises the proposition that SSCM practices can be both environmentally necessary and good business in the context of emerging economies. In light of this, this paper develops and empirically assesses an integrated SSCM performance framework underpinned by the resource dependence theory (RDT) lens, linking SSCM practices and their relationship with organisational performance. Using the tenants of RDT, this research develops an understanding of how firms use their partners’ resources to implement SSCM practices and manage their performance implications.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Institutional Pressures, Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environmental and Economic Performance: A Two Theory View (2018, background): “Most of the studies do commit that, at the start, due to heavy capital investments, it might show negative impacts but that, in the longer run, green practices either directly or indirectly generate economic benefits to the manufacturer [80,83].”
• A supply chain sustainability innovation framework and evaluation methodology (2018, background): “The integration of sustainability initiatives into organisational supply chain operations derives from social pressures, stricter government policy, corporate image, growing public awareness and market pressures (Tseng, Lim, and Wong 2015; Esfahbodi, Zhang, and Watson 2016).”