Sustainability strategies in an EPQ model with price- and quality-sensitive demand-猫眼课题宝

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10.1108/09574091211289219

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2012-11

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C. Glock;M. Jaber;C. Searcy

本文研究了一个生产单一产品的制造商，该产品在需求对价格和质量敏感的市场上销售。假定制造商的生产过程会影响环境，例如产生排放物或废料，或消耗不可再生资源。本文将生产过程的环境影响视为质量属性，并假设具有环保意识的客户愿意在生产过程的环境影响减少（或者同样地，实现更高程度的可持续性）的情况下为产品支付更高的价格。本文开发的模型研究了可持续性、成本和需求之间的权衡，并提出了制造商利润最大化的策略。越来越多的人认识到公司在实现全球可持续性方面发挥着关键作用（Shrivastava, 1995）。在过去的二十年里，几乎所有经济部门的个别公司和行业协会都制定了解决可持续性问题的政策、计划和方案。这些举措通常侧重于解决企业经济、环境和社会绩效的“三重底线”（Elkington, 1997）。在实施可持续发展倡议方面特别积极的一个行业是制造业。关于可持续性在制造业中意味着什么，一直存在争论。可持续制造或可持续生产并没有一个普遍接受的定义。然而，一个被广泛使用的可持续生产定义将其定义为“通过使用无污染的过程和系统来创造商品，以经济上可行、安全和健康的方式为员工、社区和消费者节约能源和自然资源，在短期和长期的未来为所有利益相关者带来社会和创造性的回报”（Glavic和Lukman， 2007）。虽然每个公司会根据自己的需要来定义可持续性，但这个定义提供了对目标、目的和指标的洞察，这些目标通常与制造业的可持续性倡议有关。为了帮助衡量其可持续发展举措的成功或失败，制造业的许多公司都制定了可持续发展指标。可持续生产指标集的发展也是一些学术出版物的主题，包括Veleva和Ellenbecker (2001)， Krajnc和Glavic（2003）以及Fan等人（2010）。许多其他论文探讨了制造业中特定公司的可持续性指标的发展。Arena等人（2009年）对最新的工业可持续性指标进行了广泛的审查。然而，虽然文献表明已经做出了许多有意义的贡献，但工作仍然存在。特别是，上述出版物中的任何指标都没有明确探讨公司的可持续性绩效与其产品需求之间的联系。最近对91篇文章的系统回顾表明，关于消费者愿意为道德生产的商品付费的研究——包括环境和劳工实践等问题——产生了不同的结果（Cotte和Trudel， 2009）。然而，系统评价的总体结果表明，消费者是

This paper studies a manufacturer producing a single product which is sold on a market where demand is sensitive to price and quality. The production process of the manufacturer is assumed to impact the environment, for example by producing emissions or scrap or by consuming non-renewable resources. The environmental impact of the production process is treated as a quality attribute in this paper, and it is assumed that environmentally conscious customers are willing to pay a higher price for the product in case the environmental impact of the production process is reduced (or, likewise, a higher degree of sustainability is achieved). The model developed in this paper studies the trade-off between sustainability, costs and demand and proposes strategies to maximise the manufacturer’s profit. INTRODUCTION There is a growing recognition that corporations play a critical role in achieving global sustainability (Shrivastava, 1995). Over the last two decades, individual corporations and industry associations in virtually all economic sectors have developed policies, plans, and programs to address sustainability issues. These initiatives typically focus on addressing the “triple bottom line” of corporate economic, environmental, and social performance (Elkington, 1997). One industry that has been particularly active in implementing sustainability initiatives is the manufacturing sector. There are ongoing debates on what sustainability means in a manufacturing context. There is no universally accepted definition of sustainable manufacturing or sustainable production. However, one widely-used definition of sustainable production defines it as “creating goods by using processes and systems that are non-polluting, that conserve energy and natural resources in economically viable, safe and healthy ways for employees, communities, and consumers which are socially and creatively rewarding for all stakeholders in the shortand long-term future” (Glavic and Lukman, 2007). Although each corporation will define sustainability according to its own needs, this definition provides insight into the goals, objectives, and targets typically associated with sustainability initiatives in the manufacturing sector. To help measure the success or failure of their sustainability initiatives, many corporations in the manufacturing sector have developed sustainability indicators. The development of sets of sustainable production indicators has also been the subject of several academic publications, including Veleva and Ellenbecker (2001), Krajnc and Glavic (2003), and Fan et al. (2010). Many other papers have explored the development of sustainability indicators for specific companies within the manufacturing sector. An extensive review of the state-of-the-art of industrial sustainability indicators was provided by Arena et al. (2009). However, while the literature shows that many meaningful contributions have been made, work remains. In particular, none of the indicators in the publications noted above have explicitly explored the link between a corporation’s sustainability performance and demand for its products. A recent systematic review of 91 articles showed that the research on consumer willingness to pay for ethically produced goods – encompassing issues such as environmental and labour practices – has yielded mixed results (Cotte and Trudel, 2009). However, the overall findings of the systematic review suggested that consumers were

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