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PURCHASING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: INTERACTIONS, POLICIES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Author(s) -
Green Ken,
Morton Barbara,
New Steve
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0836(199609)5:3<188::aid-bse60>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - purchasing , business , perspective (graphical) , supply chain , marketing , supply chain management , industrial organization , artificial intelligence , computer science
The mechanisms are examined by which environmentally informed business practices and technologies may diffuse through industry as a result of the ‘greening’ of purchasing and supply. The efforts of official bodies in the UK to raise environmental awareness among industrial purchasers are reviewed. It is then argued that the supply chain model is an important way of interpreting the industrial landscape from a green perspective and that it is in some ways a more hopeful and positive starting point for achieving industrial transformation. The results of an analysis of some UK companies practices in using their purchasing policies to ‘green’ their supply chains are presented and opportunities for further research indicated.