The Identification of Sustainable Supply Chain Elements in The Enterprise X

• Authors: Paula Bajdor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Today, operating on the market, enterprises, to a lesser or greater extent, try to carry out their activities in such a way to minimize the possible negative impact on the environment. In most companies, the analysis of its supply chains can identify them as "green supply chains", which primarily involves not harming the natural environment. However, the further development of this concept is "sustainable supply chain", the chain that means not only protection of the environment but also means caring for the closest social environment together with economic development of the company. As opposed to green supply chains, it is still difficult to identify a sustainable supply chain in Polish enterprises. For the research purpose, the interview sheet has been created, based on the answers provided by the companies it is possible to further identify and determine the elements that make up a sustainable supply chain. This article presents an interview sheet with the answers given by one of the companies investigated

Keywords

EN

supply chain; green supply chain; sustainable supply chain; enterprise; questionnaire

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management of Sustainable Development
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-27

Dates

published

2013-06-01

online

2013-08-28

Contributors

author

Paula Bajdor

• Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/msd-2013-0004