How Environmental Knowledge of Managers Plays a Critical Role in Implementing Green Supply Chain Management

Ioannis E. Nikolaou () and Anastasios Zervas
Additional contact information
Ioannis E. Nikolaou: Democritus University of Thrace
Anastasios Zervas: Democritus University of Thrace

A chapter in Operational Research in Business and Economics, 2017, pp 17-33 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to examine how environmental information affects the decisions of managers/owners to incorporate environmental concerns into their supply chain management. A research framework is constructed through a literature review. This is based on certain research hypotheses which are particularly related to the knowledge of managers about environmental impacts of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), and of the barriers and opportunities faced by SMEs when implementing certain practices to green their supply chain management. The findings show that knowledge and environmental information plays a critical role in managers’ decisions to adopt environmental practices across supply chain management, while the economic crisis seems to negatively affect their intention to implement any environmental practice.

Keywords: Green supply chain; Barriers; Weaknesses; Environmental practices; Corporate environmental management; EMSs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-33003-7_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319330037

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33003-7_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().