Susana Duarte

Citation:

Azevedo, {Susana G. }, Helena Carvalho, Susana Duarte, and V. Cruz-Machado. "Influence of green and lean upstream supply chain management practices on business sustainability." Ieee Transactions On Engineering Management. 59 (2012): 753-765.

Abstract:

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.

Notes:

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.