Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 31 Issue 5

Guest editorial

Sachin Kumar Mangla

Development of a framework to improve supply chain performance through e-business and sustainability enablers: An emerging economy perspective

Sumit Chandak, Neeraj Kumar

The main aim of the study is to develop a structural framework that includes e-business processes and sustainability-oriented enablers to improve supply chain performance.

An interpretive structural modeling of drivers and barriers of sustainable supply chain management: A case of stone industry

Gunjan Soni, Surya Prakash, Himanshu Kumar, Surya Prakash Singh, Vipul Jain, Sukhdeep Singh Dhami

The Indian marble and stone industry has got the potential to contribute well to the development of the emerging economy. However, unlike the other Indian industries, stone and…

Pressures in implementation of circular supply chain management for sustainability: An analysis from Indian industries perspective

Manju Saroha, Dixit Garg, Sunil Luthra

Business organisations are under serious threat to sustain their business due to globalisation, challenging market and recent economic competitiveness. The aim of this study is to…

Towards understanding key enablers to green humanitarian supply chain management practices

Surajit Bag, Sunil Luthra, V.G. Venkatesh, Gunjan Yadav

Humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) by their very nature require urgent reaction to unforeseeable needs, making it difficult to properly plan for the support of actual demands. As…

Sustainable supply chain management practices and performance: An integrated perspective from a developing economy

Ravindra Baliga, Rakesh D. Raut, Sachin S. Kamble

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is a relatively new sub-field of supply chain management (SCM). The performance of SSCM is based on the triple bottom line approach…

Inhibitors in the recycling of organs and implications to the environment: An emerging economy context

Nikhil Dhakate, Rohit Joshi

Environmental sustainability in health care is an important issue due to the limited available healthcare resources and increase in demand. For instance, organ recycling and…

When practices count: Implementation of sustainable consumption and production in automotive supply chains

Surbhi Uniyal, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Pravin Patil

Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) assist managers to improve their operational efficiency while aiming at reducing the generation of waste. The purpose of this paper is…

Forecasting product returns and reverse logistics performance: structural equation modelling

Saurabh Agrawal, Rajesh Kumar Singh

Forecasting product returns plays an important role in the operations of reverse logistics (RL). However, their contribution to sustainability performance is yet to be explored…

Sustainability benchmarking for logistics center location decision: An example from an emerging country

Yiğit Kazançoğlu, Melisa Özbiltekin, Yeşim Deniz Özkan-Özen

As in line with eco benchmarking, the purpose of this paper is to solve a location selection problem in an emerging country by applying sustainability benchmarking principles.

Examining the impact of institutional pressures and green supply chain management practices on firm performance

Waqar Ahmed, Arsalan Najmi, Farhana Khan

With the challenge of ecological business sustainability, concepts like green design, eco-friendly products, sustainable technologies and efficient processes have compelled the…

Building theory of green supply chain management for the chemical industry: An emerging economy context

Shohanuzzaman Shohan, Syed Mithun Ali, Golam Kabir, S.K. Kafi Ahmed, Tasmiah Haque, Saima Ahmed Suhi

In Bangladesh, the chemical industry is one of the expanding industries based on current statistical data analysis. Green supply chain management (GSCM) is pivotal in order to…

Managing operations by a logistics company for sustainable service quality: Indian perspective

Anchal Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Singh

The purpose of this paper is to understand how logistics service providers manage their operations for sustainable service quality and operational excellence. This study is also…

Green energy management in India for environmental benchmarking: from concept to practice

Deepak Sangroya, Gaurav Kabra, Yatish Joshi, Mohit Yadav

This study examines various aspects of green energy management operations in India and reports the current state, potential avenues and barriers for green energy management.

A multi-objective mixed-integer linear model for sustainable fruit closed-loop supply chain network

Younis Jabarzadeh, Hossein Reyhani Yamchi, Vikas Kumar, Nader Ghaffarinasab

This paper aims to present a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) optimization problem for a perishable agricultural product to achieve three pillars of sustainability, including…

Firm size implications for environmental sustainability of supply chains: evidence from the UAE

Sreejith Balasubramanian, Vinaya Shukla, Janya Chanchaichujit

Effective environment and climate change management require supply chain-wide focus (from the initial design to the end-of-life management) as well as universal participation and…

Benchmarking of cleaner production in sand mould casting companies

Henrique Guilherme da Silva, João Carlos Espíndola Ferreira, Vikas Kumar, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

The purpose of this research was to develop new sustainability indicators consistent with the sand mould casting industry, through benchmarking of cleaner production (CP), in…

A novel mathematical model for municipal waste collection and energy generation: case study of Kermanshah city

Jaber Valizadeh

Waste production and related environmental problems have caused urban services management many problems in collecting, transporting and disposal of waste. Since collecting and…