Integrating corporate website information into qualitative assessment for benchmarking green supply chain management practices for the chemical industry

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:311

Article

Gao, Shuo^1,2  Qiao, Renlu³  Lim, Ming Kim^4,5  Li, Chentao⁶  Qu, Yang⁷  Xia, Li⁸ 

[1] Univ Oxford, Interdisciplinary Ctr Conservat Sci, Oxford, England

[2] London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Geog & Environm, London, England

[3] Tianjin Univ, Sch Architecture, Tianjin, Peoples R China

[4] Coventry Univ, Ctr Business Soc, Coventry, W Midlands, England

[5] Chongqing Univ, Dept Ind Engn, Coll Mech Engn, Chongqing, Peoples R China

[6] London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Sociol, London, England

[7] Harbin Inst Technol, Sch Architecture, Harbin, Peoples R China

[8] Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Management, Hefei, Peoples R China

关键词: Environmental management;    Eco-design;    Resource recycling;    Entropy weight;    Analytic hierarchy process;    Decision analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127590

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The China's chemical industry has been endeavouring to promote sustainable development through practicing green supply chain management (GSCM). This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision framework with twenty practices to guide companies in the industry to enact GSCM effectively. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) has been used to cluster the proposed practices. We found five aspects, including economic initiatives, environmental management, eco-design, resource recycling, and stakeholder and employee, constitute the underlying structure of GSCM. A mixed decision tool combining the entropy weight method (EWM) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been developed and applied to identify key factors. Official website information has been collected and used to analyse the website contents of five benchmarking companies in the China's chemical industry. The results reveal that the aspects of environmental management, eco-design and resource recycling are the most important GSCM themes. Moreover, the top five practices are top management support, performing life cycle assessment, managing environmental risks, advancing recycling technologies and integrating reverse logistics. Conceptual and practical implications are discussed.

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