TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of green and lean upstream supply chain management practices on business sustainability
AU - Azevedo, Susana G.
AU - Carvalho, Helena
AU - Duarte, Susana
AU - Cruz-Machado, V.
N1 - Manuscript received July 18, 2011; revised November 20, 2011 and February 3, 2012; accepted February 16, 2012. Date of publication April 5, 2012; date of current version October 16, 2012. This work was supported by Fundac¸ão para a Ciência e Tecnologia through Project MIT-Pt/EDAM-IASC/0033/2008. The work of H. Carvalho was supported by a PhD fellowship from Fundac¸ão para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/43984/2008). The work of S. Duarte was supported by a Ph.D. fellowship from Fundac¸ão para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/60969/2009). Review of this manuscript was arranged by Department Editor Q. Zhu.
PY - 2012/4/12
Y1 - 2012/4/12
N2 - Green and lean paradigms have been adopted by companies in order to manage their relationships with suppliers in a supply chain management context, but nearly always separately and with little understanding of their influence on company performance. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the analysis of the influence of green and lean upstream supply chain management practices on the sustainable development of businesses. To attend this objective, a set of performance measures covering economic (operational cost, environmental cost, and inventory cost), environmental (business wastage, green image, and CO 2 emission), and social (corruption risk, supplier screening and local supplier) perspectives is proposed. An explanatory case study was conducted at a Portuguese automaker to test qualitatively the validity of the proposed theoretical framework. From the case study, a model is suggested, which encompasses the relationships between green and lean upstream supply chain practices and sustainable business development.
AB - Green and lean paradigms have been adopted by companies in order to manage their relationships with suppliers in a supply chain management context, but nearly always separately and with little understanding of their influence on company performance. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the analysis of the influence of green and lean upstream supply chain management practices on the sustainable development of businesses. To attend this objective, a set of performance measures covering economic (operational cost, environmental cost, and inventory cost), environmental (business wastage, green image, and CO 2 emission), and social (corruption risk, supplier screening and local supplier) perspectives is proposed. An explanatory case study was conducted at a Portuguese automaker to test qualitatively the validity of the proposed theoretical framework. From the case study, a model is suggested, which encompasses the relationships between green and lean upstream supply chain practices and sustainable business development.
KW - Automotive industry
KW - green and lean supply chain practices
KW - performance measurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867848593&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2012.2189108
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2012.2189108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867848593
VL - 59
SP - 753
EP - 765
JO - Ieee Transactions On Engineering Management
JF - Ieee Transactions On Engineering Management
SN - 0018-9391
IS - 4
M1 - 6179327
ER -