Bilateral (HK) - How partner firms coordinate their environmental management practices? Green supply chain integration and its performance implication

双边（香港）- 合作伙伴公司如何协调其环境管理实践？

• 批准号: ES/J016799/1
• 负责人: Chee Wong
• 金额: $ 9.46万
• 依托单位: University of Hull
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ016799%2F1
• 关键词: Bilateral; HK; How; partner; firms

In recent years many firms from developed and developing countries have seriously started to initiate green supply chain management to achieve greater efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of their supply chains. To become greener, many firms have now realized the need to collaborate or integrate with their supply chain partners to implement environmental management. Such efforts are noted from the participation of more than 120 companies, including British Telecom Group, Vospre Thornycroft Group Plc, Kraft Foods, IKEA, Levi Strauss and Co., and others, in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative, where firms measure carbon emissions of their product life cycle and supply chains. In the management literature, there is a paucity of knowledge about how firms may effectively coordinate environmental management across their supply chains, and most importantly, how firms can achieve desirable environmental performance throughout a supply chain without compromising their operational performance. Even though some recent studies indicate that environmental collaboration (collaboration with suppliers and customers in environmental management) could lead to both better operational and environmental performance, the effectiveness of such a concept is yet to be thoroughly proven and understood.This research elevates the concept of environmental collaboration to a novel concept called Green Supply Chain Integration (GSCI), which is a more strategic and integrative approach to achieving green supply chain performance. The research plans to identify the effective practices of Green Supply Chain Integration that can simultaneously improve operational and environmental performance of firms from developing and developed countries (Hong Kong, China, Thailand and UK). It will reveal the complementary effects of various Green Supply Chain Integration practices and factors such as regulation, competitive priority, supply chain structure which may support or inhibit such efforts. This research is importance because most supply chains are globally fragmented and yet every firm needs to simultaneously achieve superior operational and environmental performance. It is a timely research because the needs to effectively coordinate environmental practices in a global supply chain have now been recognised but there is a lack of insights into how breakthrough in operational and environmental performance can be achieved.

近年来，许多发达国家和发展中国家的企业都开始认真启动绿色供应链管理，以提高供应链的效率并减少对环境的影响。为了变得更加环保，许多公司现在已经意识到需要与供应链合作伙伴合作或整合来实施环境管理。包括英国电信集团、Vospre Thornycroft Group Plc、卡夫食品、宜家、Levi Strauss and Co. 等在内的 120 多家公司参与了温室气体协议倡议，这些公司在该倡议中衡量其产品生命周期和供应链的碳排放量。在管理文献中，关于企业如何有效协调整个供应链的环境管理，以及最重要的是，企业如何在不影响其运营绩效的情况下在整个供应链中实现理想的环境绩效，知之甚少。尽管最近的一些研究表明，环境合作（在环境管理方面与供应商和客户的合作）可以带来更好的运营和环境绩效，但这一概念的有效性尚未得到彻底证明和理解。这项研究将环境合作的概念提升为绿色供应链一体化（GSCI）的新概念，这是实现绿色供应链绩效的更具战略性和综合性的方法。该研究计划确定绿色供应链整合的有效实践，以同时提高发展中国家和发达国家（香港、中国、泰国和英国）企业的运营和环境绩效。它将揭示各种绿色供应链整合实践的互补效应以及可能支持或抑制此类努力的监管、竞争优先权、供应链结构等因素。这项研究很重要，因为大多数供应链在全球范围内都是分散的，但每个公司都需要同时实现卓越的运营和环境绩效。这是一项及时的研究，因为现在已经认识到在全球供应链中有效协调环境实践的需要，但缺乏对如何实现运营和环境绩效突破的见解。