The relevance of green practices worldwide: an overview
| Date | 05 July 2019 |
| Published date | 05 July 2019 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/WJEMSD-03-2018-0029 |
| Pages | 98-108 |
| Author | Gisela Aguilar Dorantes,Tomás Eloy Salais Fierro,Gloria Camacho Ruelas |
| Subject Matter | Strategy,Business ethics,Sustainability |
The relevance of green practices
worldwide: an overview
Gisela Aguilar Dorantes and Tomás Eloy Salais Fierro
Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CIDET),
Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica,
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, México, and
Gloria Camacho Ruelas
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey,
Monterrey Campus, México
Abstract
Purpose –The paper consists of a literature review about the green supply chain management (GSCM), a
concept which has been gaining ground around the organizations worldwide. The traditional supply chain
(SC) was forced to evolve in GSCM as an option for companies to improve their economical, operational and
environmental performance. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how green practices (GP) have a
powerful dependence to the SC execution from companies around the world. A GP can be briefly defined as
the actions being consciously done being responsible to the environment.
Design/methodology/approach –The paper is exploratory. The topic was delimited through a review of
similar papers, analyzing the different type of tools and the GP considered in each paper. For last, a
conclusion will be exposed.
Findings –The “green movement”within the SC is increasing fast around the world, since the increasing
awareness of industrialized countries are recurring in practices that impact directly to the environment.
Therefore, costs of extra energy consumption are generated, as well as the imminent worrying reputation
among customers due to the lack of responsibility to the environment.
Research limitations/implications –The document only covers the topic from a theoretical aspect
through a literature review.
Originality/value –This paper covers not only strategies related to GSCM and GP from European and
Asian countries are approached, but also Latin American performance, exposing briefly the adoption
of GSCM.
Keywords Green logistics, Green transport, Green supply chain, Green practices
Paper type General review
1. Introduction
The globalization has brought dramatic changes on how the world works, specifically the
international trade of goods and services in the last decades. Within the international trade,
the SC is not the exception at a local and global level. However, this huge transformation
also brought other kind of issues; being the environmental pollution one of the most
worrying matters nowadays. Although there is a list of questions to be asked, the selected
research questions for the paper are:
RQ1. How the supply chain (SC) has affected the environment?
RQ2. Is there a cost to pay for the use of the reseources or non-renewable energies? If so,
which stakeholderis paying for it: the customer, the companies or theenvironment?
RQ3. Which are the strategies proposed by leader nations related to the implementation
of green practices (GP) and green supply chain management (GSCM)?
World Journal of
Entrepreneurship, Management
and Sustainable Development
Vol. 15 No. 2, 2019
pp. 98-108
© Emerald PublishingLimited
2042-5961
DOI 10.1108/WJEMSD-03-2018-0029
Received 20 March 2018
Revised 18 August 2018
Accepted 1 October 2018
The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at:
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The authors would like to thank to the National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional
de Ciencia y Tecnología in Spanish), the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the Facultad de
Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica (FIME) for their support to build the first phase of a thesis project
continuing to develop the topic on the second stage for a case study.
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