Environmental Sustainability Practices

Spring $2024$

Assignment $2$

From Assignment $1,$ you have a definition of environmental sustainability and you know one set of supporting green supply chain management practices $($GSCMP$)$: internal environmental management $($IEM$),$ green information systems $($GIS$),$ environmental cooperation with suppliers $($ECS$),$ environmental cooperation with customers $($ECC$),$ environmental monitoring of suppliers $($EMS$),$ environmental monitoring of customers $($EMC$).$ You also know that this particular set of GSCMP combine to improve environmental and organizational performance supporting the general proposition that environmental sustainability is "good business."

Now, I want you to read the second article published in $2012$ by Green, Zelbst, Meacham, and Bhadauria. I don't expect you to understand everything in this article either $($at this point in the semester anyway$).$ I do want you to identify a second $($but very similar$)$ set of GSCMP and determine how they impact performance. Note that this article is one of the most cited $(1,808$ as of January $30,2024).$ This means that many other environmental sustainability researchers around the world have used it to inform their research efforts. It is one of the seminal articles on environmental sustainability.

When you are through reading, answer the following questions:

How do the authors define$/$describe supply chain management?

Which specific business processes do the authors identify as needing to beffextended throughout the supply chain?

List the five strategic imperatives identified by the authors.

How do the authors define environmental sustainability?

Explain why the authors say that environmental sustainability is a supply chain rather than an organizational imperative.

List the set of six GSCMP investigated in this study. Which two are duplicates of the practices from the first paper you read?