摘要:The fi eld of supply chain management
has more recently directed its attention
to the role of the supply chain in both
(a) impacts to the natural environment
and (b) the generation of environmental
performance change. This shift in our
expectations for the supply chain has
arisen from growing social pressure,
legislative changes around packaging
and end-of-life goods, identifi ed supply
chain risks, and increasing use of environmental
requirements being cascaded
from customers to suppliers. Several
years of research into the occurrence
of green-supply-chain-management
activity (GSCM) has led to a general acceptance
of its relevance and purpose.
At this point in the fi eld’s development,
however, there is substantial scope for
improving our understanding of potential
strategies of GSCM rather than just
a series of related greening practices
without a defi nite purpose. Owing to
increasing and rapid developments in the
fi eld of green supply chain management,
we describe an evolving set of distinct
supply chain strategies in support of
this type of activity and propose some
directions for the future. In the manner
of Fisher (1997) —what might be the
most appropriate GSCM strategy for a
particular product, process, or industry
context?