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Rhetoric and reality of corporate greening: a view from the supply chain management function
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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:18 authored by Lutz PreussThe increasingly important economic role of supply chain management provides the backcloth against which this article examines what contribution the function can make to environmental protection. Theoretical perspectives on greener supply are developed and then tested against a sample of manufacturing companies. Environmental policy documents published by the sample companies seem to offer surface evidence for a proactive supply chain management role in environmental protection. Yet a more detailed examination of the three elements that constitute supply chain management - the management of the transformation of materials, the management of information flows and the management of supply chain relationships - finds a suboptimal situation for all three areas. In part this gap can be explained by limits in the technical capabilities of the supply chain. More important, however, are structural constraints that prevent the supply chain manager from actively searching for environmentally friendlier alternatives.
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- Published
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Business Strategy and the EnvironmentISSN
0964-4733Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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2Volume
14Page range
123-139Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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- Yes
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2016-10-04Usage metrics
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