Purpose: Despite the stimulating roles of market demand and green issues to green innovation and business success, the relationships among these aspects remains controversial. The lack of the consensus on these links causes a missing research gap in the extant literature. This study aims to examine the mediating effect of green innovation and environmental performance on the relationship betwee...

Integrating environmental management into the purchasing function of an organization, called green purchasing, is not unfamiliar in today's world (Hamner, 2006). As more and more consumers are expected to be aware of environmental issues in this decade (Carter and Narsimhan, 1998), organizations would consistently be implementing environmentally conscious purchasing practice, which would endeav...

This paper focuses on the findings of a qualitative content analysis study of the corporate sustainability reports of IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Dell with the purpose of exploring the sustainability initiatives in these firms using a number of theoretical frameworks. These three firms were among those highly rated in the information technology industry according to the annual Newsweek Green rank...

In this paper, the maritime industry’s commitment to green supply chain has been analyzed. The objective of this study is to show that the reuse of empty containers not only adds value to a firm, but leads to waste reduction in the supply chain. The novelties of this article include (i) empty and laden containers are treated in accordance with a shipping company’s green effort; (ii) both the vo...

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one of the recent buzz world in the industrial enterprises in India for the enhancing the capabilities of their supply chain management through sustainability. Industries are more interested in profit making due to sustainable supply chain activities rather than to save environment. Thus in this research, we aim to study the various activities involved in...

Introduction Due to the increasing demand for advanced logistics and supply chain management (SCM) services over the past decade fuelled by e.g. globalization, customer orientation and different market conditions, the role of logistics service providers (LSPs) has started to change both when it comes to content and complexity. Furthermore, LSPs and its services have been identified to have pote...

In recent years, environmental performance has become part of a company’s strategic value. This is partly attributed by the recent regulatory development in this area. For example the WEEE and RoHS directives were enforced by the European Union to require manufacturers to take recycling (and reuse) and selection of material into design consideration. These initiatives exemplify the importance o...

Currently, sustainability initiatives that use green chemistry to improve and/or protect our global environment are becoming focal issues in many fields of research. Instead of using toxic chemicals for the reduction and stabilisation of metallic nanoparticles, the use of various biological entities has received considerable attention in the field of nanobiotechnology. Among the many possible n...

In order to achieve the large-scale reductions in carbon emissions necessary to reduce the impact of climate change, fundamental technological changes will be required. In this regard, Green IT and IS may be able to play a pivotal role; however, such initiatives require new skills of IS leaders that are not sufficiently addressed in current university programs. In the process of developing prac...

The aim of this paper is to examine the synergies between lean, EMS and green systems, manufacturing management strategies as found in the literature, with a focus on the co-occurent implementation of these strategic initiatives, in order to develop a research agenda to guide a theoretically based future research to assist small-medium enterprise (SME) managerial decision making. An in-depth li...