Green Supply Chain Management Implementation in Taiwanese Manufacturing Companies－none

• Main Authors: Maria Skachkova, 瑪麗雅
• Other Authors: Fang-Yi Lo
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43741153748555555275

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 國際貿易所 === 99 === The current thesis is devoted to the topic of “green” supply chain practices development in Taiwan. Making a review of current researches in the Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) field we give a brief description of the main research directions, key issues and theoretical approaches, and also focus on some practical issues of GSCM implementation. The purpose of our work is to investigate factors which influence the Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) implementation in Taiwanese manufacturing organizations. Corresponding with the research purpose, a significant number of literature and previous works was analyzed. To conduct the research we provide a theoretical framework, set out what factors determine the choice of GSCM implementation and use the simple linear model to investigate them. For the sample we take 400 companies from the “CommonWealth” Magazine (天下) annual survey “1000 Best Manufacturing Companies of Taiwan”. The qualitative data was collected from open sources (companies’ websites, information provided for potential investors – financial reports and available sustainable reports) by the method of content analysis. Quantitative data was taken from Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) and Taiwan Stock Exchange listed companies’ databases. To analyze our model we apply ordinary least squares and binary logistic regression methods. The results reflect that ISO 14000 adoption, export to environmentally aware markets and “green” partners existence influences the GSCM adoption in Taiwan manufacturing companies. From our sample we define positive relations between these factors and GSCM adoption. The conclusions of our research are not contrary to the previous researches done and support that main factors of GSCM implementation for Taiwanese manufacturing companies are similar to those in other countries. However, some important differences exist. Taiwan country specific features in GSCM implementation are the following: ? Most of GSCM adopted Taiwanese manufacturing companies in our sample are from electronic, optoelectronic and semiconductor industry; Companies from this industry are more likely to adopt GSCM and ISO 14000; ? Companies adopt “green” practices mainly because of foreign customers and international environmental regulations pressure; ? Size of the companies defined in number of employees doesn’t influence the GSCM adoption; We hope that our findings can be interesting to anyone working on sustainability and green performance issues. However, the results of this study suggest a broader hypothesis for our further research in the GSCM field.