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    The challenges of GSCM implementation in the UK manufacturing SMEs.

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    Authors
    Kumar, Vikas
    Sabri, Shahruzzaman
    Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo cc
    Nadeem, Simon Peter cc
    Kumari, Archana
    Akkaranggoon, Supalak
    Affiliation
    University of the West of England
    University of Warwick
    Khon Kaen University
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2019-01-31
    
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    Abstract
    The importance of green supply chain management has long attracted the interest of both researchers and practitioners in the industry. As environmental concerns are becoming one of the major issues discussed in the 21st century, countries with manufacturing as its principal economy contributor are always on the lookout for innovations and new approaches to balance both environmental considerations and profit making. The UK, being one of the top manufacturing countries in the world already considered green initiatives among their manufacturers. According to reports from the industry, large and international manufacturing companies from the UK have successfully implemented some green initiatives with significant improvements across the supply chain. However, the adoption of green initiatives is mainly focused on large companies rather the real backbone of the UK manufacturing industry, which is the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper therefore sets out to determine the implementation level of green supply chain among the SMEs. The paper adopts a mixed methods based approach and findings are based on 57 survey responses and 5 semi-structured interviews from UK manufacturing SMEs. The findings show that the level of GSCM implementation among the UK manufacturing SMEs is low compared to large organisations. Cost of implementing GSCM practices emerged as a key challenge faced by the UK manufacturing SMEs which was followed by the lack of knowledge within the organisation. This study thus adds to the limited literature on the manufacturing SMEs and provides evidence from the UK manufacturing sector on the adoption of GSCM practices.
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    Kumar, V. et al. (2019) ‘The challenges of GSCM implementation in the UK manufacturing SMEs’, Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Kandy, Sri Lanka, 14-16 December. IEEE, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449.
    Publisher
    IEEE
    Journal
    Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623519
    DOI
    10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449
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    http://www.poms2018.org/
    https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.derby.ac.uk/document/8629449
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    Article
    Meetings and Proceedings
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    978-1-5386-9500-5
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1109/POMS.2018.8629449
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