Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Competitiveness (PDF)

Sustainable competitiveness has become a major concern for all organizations in the present context of globalized markets. Financial performance is no longer only criteria to assess the performance of an organization. Performance frameworks are continuously changing. In the past, organizations used to focus mainly on cost, quality and delivery time etc. These have now become qualifying criteria to survive in competition. In the present scenario, the situation is changing very fast. Social and Environmental issues are becoming more important now. Therefore, performance frameworks are being integrated with these emerging issues of sustainability. It incorporates the economic, social, and environmental factors. To achieve the objectives of sustainability, organizations need to restructure their whole production systems in terms of product and process design, not only for forward flow but also for reverse flow from consumers. This is the reason that now green supply chain management (GSCM) has become an emerging area of research for academicians and professionals. Therefore, this e-book has been brought out to highlight the importance of green supply chains for industrial organizations.In this e-book, six high quality research papers appear dealing with green supply chain management for sustainable competitiveness.