Some researchers question the legitimacy of EMSs since organizations can claim to have one when in fact they make no attempt to reduce their environmental harm. In instances where EMSs enhance an organization’s environmental performance, critics argue that improvements are likely to occur within the organization’s operational boundaries rather than being extended throughout the supply chain. Ho...

The linkage between economic and environmental issues in an inter-organizational context receives significant attention from scholars and industrial practice. Emerging concepts like Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM), extending supply chain management with ecological aspects like resource optimization and recycling, might be the first step towards an ecologically responsible economy. But...

A typical supply chain is a materials and information network composed by supplier, manufactures, logistics agencies, distribution center, warehouse, retailer and consumer. It involves all enterprises and departments throughout the whole product life-cycle from the material gaining, production to semi-finished products or finished products, assembly, transportation, consumption till disposal. S...

This paper demonstrates that a proper design of environmental-regulation pricing strategies is able to promote Extended Product Responsibility for green supply chain firms in a competitive market. A differential game model comprising Vidale-Wolfe equation has been established in light of sales competition and recycling dynamics as well as regulation related profit function. Analytic solutions o...

This study examines the relationships found in supplier involvement in the course of operational life-cycle stages, environmentally-friendly practices, and environmental performances. Using sampling data gathered from 157 managers of automotive firms, obtained via a benchmarking questionnaire, three hypotheses are tested employing a Structural Equation Modeling analysis. The findings are genera...

This study aims to design a sustainable maritime supply chain by taking customer requirements as the focus. This is achieved by an analytical approach combining Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Analytical Network Process (ANP) for guiding shipping companies’ design. An analysis of a major container shipping line is conducted to illustrate and validate the approach. The four main customer r...

supply chain network design decisions are among the strategic decisions of supply chain management which play significant role on the efficient performance of the supply chain. however, there are two challenging factors which may have great impact on the supply chain performance. these factors are on the one hand disruptions and their attendant damages and on the other hand uncertain nature of ...

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is a charming subject today in business competition among the organization’s. In this competitive and globalized environment, most of the all organization’s are emphasizing more efforts to improve their green supply chain practices. This paper is used the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) approach to select the ...

Abstract Recent developments in food industries have attracted both academic and industrial practitioners. Shrimp as a well-known, rich, sought-after seafood, is generally obtained from either marine environments or aquaculture. Central prominence of Supply Chain (SSC) brought about by numerous factors such high demand, market price, diverse fisheries aquaculture locations. In this respect, pap...

This paper presents a competitive supply chain network design problem in which one, two, or three supply chains are planning to enter the price-dependent markets simultaneously in uncertain environments and decide to set the prices and shape their networks. The chains produce competitive products either identical or highly substitutable. Fuzzy multi-level mixed integer programming is used to mo...