دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی عوامل موثر در مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار با استفاده از دو کشور آسیایی به عنوان نمونه - وایلی 2017

ABSTRACT

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is increasingly followed by academia and industry. Although some companies have shown their success in implementing SSCM practices, many are still hesitant – that is, certain challenges to SSCM operation still exist. The focus of this study was to identify the influential factors of SSCM practices from both the conceptual and practical perspectives. A verified SSCM questionnaire was conducted to investigate the differences of the influential factors between Taiwan and Vietnam, and to explore the regional phenomenon of SSCM implementation. The result could be used to support the argument of related literature that pressure, strategy, uncertainty, internal management and external management could be the influential factors of the success/failure of the SSCM adoption. Local practices of sustainability in Taiwan and Vietnam were addressed and discussed in this study. Future study might survey other Asian countries to examine the international difference.

Conclusions

Literature review and the preliminary interviews with SSCM experts helped us consolidate the conceptual model to local practices. Our study indicated that the five influential factors of SSCM are important from both the academic and the industrial perspectives. The results of the survey attested to the concurrence of the influential factors in the literature review, and proved that the five influential factors of our SSCM model are prominent in the organizational practices in both Taiwan and Vietnam. This answered the first and second research questions we delivered in the introduction. Another valuable contribution of this study is the utilization of the industrial and the administrative cases from Vietnam and Taiwan to explicate the quantitative differences of the SSCM survey, which also answered the third question of this study.

It was concluded that the social, economic and environmental pressures from stakeholders such as the public or the administration and the eagerness to meet rigorous green standards in some areas are still the critical motivators for SSCM adoption. We advocated that practical research and professional training in SSCM should be involved from the beginning phase of a companyˈs SSCM implementation because of the uncertainty or risks of SSCM employment, the deficiency of the latest SSCM knowledge and the specific characteristics of every corporation.