Green Sourcing: Supplier Assessment and Selection Practices across Industries
<i>Background</i>: Over the last years, the assessment and selection of suppliers, based on the environmental performance of their products/services and their operations, has reached paramount importance and attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners. Based on the preva...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Logistics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6290/8/4/105 |
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| Summary: | <i>Background</i>: Over the last years, the assessment and selection of suppliers, based on the environmental performance of their products/services and their operations, has reached paramount importance and attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners. Based on the prevailing perspective of supplier selection as a purely decision-making problem, this interest has been channeled towards the development of decision-support methods and tools. Other broader issues, such as whether there are converging or diverging green supplier evaluation and selection organizational processes across industries has not been addressed. <i>Methods</i>: Here, for the first time, we address this question by adopting a systems perspective and by considering green supplier evaluation and selection as an organizational sub-process of the broader sourcing process. We use activity theory to represent green supplier evaluation and selection as two interconnected activities, each comprising a set of organizational practices. Based on this representation, we developed a research instrument to carry out empirical research in a sample of 80 companies from five industries (pharmaceuticals, food processing, aquaculture, construction materials, waste management and recycling) in Greece. <i>Results:</i> The results of the survey suggest that green supplier evaluation and selection practices do not fully converge, but there are differences across industries. <i>Conclusions</i>: The cultural and historical context of industries influences the adoption of specific environmental supplier evaluation and selection practices. |
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| ISSN: | 2305-6290 |