International Journal of Engineering and Management Research (IJEMR)
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

A Review for Green Supply Chain Management

  • Author:
  • K. Hari Krishnan, Joseph Jeya Anand, B Saju
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 466 to 469

VIT Business School, India

Online published on 21 November, 2017.

Abstract

Global warming is an issue to be addressed immediately, irrelevance of nationality, economic status it is the time to be together to act quickly to save our earth for future generation. Not only the government agencies and NGOs, the corporate citizens also have significant responsibility to be with the initiatives. Researches in the sustainable business are significantly important to motivating and educate the corporate citizens to participate in the initiatives.

Intension of this paper is to review existing research in this area and trying to explore what motivates the corporate to adopt GSCM, measures taken by the companies to control carbon footprint and what the companies are adopting to achieve their benchmark?

The outcome of the paper is the research about the Indian corporate are very less and many research were done in China and USA. The companies are achieving benefit through adopting such initiative. Customers, environmental regulations, reputation, innovation and efficiency are the drivers of green initiatives.

Keywords

Global warming, Green Supply Chain Management, Global warming and corporate responsibility, Green strategies and initiatives