دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی شیوه های مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار در صنعت خودرو سازی هند - الزویر 2017

abstract

As one ofthe largest manufacturing sectors,the automotive industry has a deep impact on the society and environment. Automotive products provide mobility to millions and create jobs, but also threaten the environment. Consumer pressure, government regulations, and stakeholder demands for a competitive edge have forced the automotive industry to consider their environmental and social impacts in addition to their economic status. These pressures have led many automotive industry businesses to adopt Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) practices. Specific practices that are adopted into the traditional supply chain and that help an industry shift towards a sustainable supply chain are called SSCM practices. Firms have difficulty identifying the most useful practices and learning how these practices impact each other. Unfortunately, no existing research has studied the interrelated influences among these practices in the automotive industry, nor from an Indian perspective. The current study aims to give a better understanding of the interrelated influences among SSCM practices with a particular look at the automotive industry. Our research presents views from multiple stakeholders, including managerial, environmental, societal, and governmental associations. We propose a framework model, using the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method, to evaluate automotive industry SSCM practices specifically situated in the emerging economy of India. Through a questionnaire survey with the above-mentioned stakeholders, we find interinfluences and the prominence of the identified practices. A prominence causal relationship diagram is obtained depicting the cause groups and the effect groups of the practices. The differences and similarities between individual perspectives and combined stakeholder perspectives are identified. The results reveal that management commitment towards sustainability and incorporating the triple bottom line approach in strategic decision making are the most influential practices for implementing the sustainable supply chain management. This study provides a foundation for industrial managers to understand the inter influences among the practices and increases the probability of successful implementation of SSCM practices within the automotive industry.

5. Conclusion

SSCM practices are implemented by automotive industries in order to achieve sustainability.While stringentpolicies andgovernment regulations of developed nations easily allow firms to adopt SSCM practices, industries in an emerging nation like India struggle to do the same. They find it difficult to identify the prominent practices that have high influence over other practices to adopt SSCM. Once those prominent practices are identified and effectively implemented, they act as enablers for many other practices; the firm can then follow all the necessary SSCM practices. DEMATEL, a well-known MCDM technique, suits this kind of problems where there are inter relationships within the criteria (Jia et al., 2015b). This method classifies the relationships between criteria as influencing and being influenced. DEMATEL is a novel approach used both to form and to analyze the cause and effect relationship between criteria (Yang et al., 2008) and/or to infer the inter relationship among criteria considered (Lin and Tzeng, 2009). From the results obtained from our analysis, we present the following conclusions. 25 SSCM practices followed in the automotive industries were identified from the existing literature; all practices aid the firm in achieving a sustainable supply chain through which they may gain a competitive advantage over other firms. But concentrating effectively on all SSCM practices is practically impossible. Hence, itis importantto find the most prominent SSCM practices, especially those that positively influence other practices. The prominence and the influences of the 25 practices were studied using DEMATEL from multi stakeholder perspectives. The multi stakeholder collaboration is a majorly incorporated element across the globe and, hence, more attention is based on collaboration between the various stakeholders for sustained success (McComb et al., 2016).