Summary information
Study title
Survey of green supply chain integration practices in the UK, 2014
Creator
Wong, C, Leeds University Business School
Study number / PID
852022 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-852022 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
The dataset contains the results of a survey investigating green supply chain integration practices among supply chain companies in the UK. This is among the first ever survey of green supply chain management practices from an integrated perspective. The survey asked respondents about the extents to which their companies practice various green supply chain integration activities, and the extent to which their companies performance have achieved competitive performance in terms of cost, finance, environment. The respondents also provided demographic data about their companies. Analyses of the survey data show that some companies managed to become lean, green and profitable by collectively implementing four types of green supply chain integration: green internal, green supplier, green customer and green stakeholder integration.In recent years firms are under pressure to reduce environmental impacts of their global supply chains. Customers in many developed countries intend to accuse or boycott firms lacking environmental responsibility if their developing-country supply chain partners are convicted of causing environmental damage. This has triggered the needs for suppliers and customers to coordinate environmental management practices.
This research proposes a novel concept for environmental collaboration among suppliers and customers. The new concept, called “green supply chain integration”, involves the strategic collaboration of partner firms in a supply chain to manage the operational and environmental impacts of supply chain activities by coordinating the intra- and inter-organisational processes. This concept extends the concept of environmental collaboration by integrating environmental management systems across a supply chain.
The research is anticipated to identify effective practices of green supply chain integration that can simultaneously improve operational and environmental performance of firms from developing and developed countries. It contributes...
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Data collection period
12/12/2014 - 28/02/2014
Country
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Organization
Universe
Not availableSampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
The survey was conducted using an online survey website with the help of a telemarketing company. 1848 samples were obtained from the FAME database based on the following criteria: UK active registered manufacturing companies with more than 250 employees and phone number and address from the following SIC codes have been selected from the FAME database in 2014. All codes: 10 - Manufacture of food products, 11 - Manufacture of beverages, 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products, 13 - Manufacture of textiles, 14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel, 15 - Manufacture of leather and related products, 16 -Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials, 17 - Manufacture of paper and paper products, 18 - Printing and reproduction of recorded media, 19 - Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products, 20 - Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products, 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations, 22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products, 23 - Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products, 24 - Manufacture of basic metals, 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment, 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment, 29 - Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi- trailers, 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment, 31 - Manufacture of furniture, 32 – Other manufacturing. An email was sent to operations or supply chain managers selected at random from the base sample. The telemarketing company invited them to take part in the survey and providing a link to the survey.The data collection by the tele-marketing company was carried in the following steps. First a phone call to the targeted respondents was made to explain the purpose and benefits of participation. Next an invitation letter (information sheet) is sent via emails where the link to the online web survey is given. Follow up phone calls are made in case respondents committed to answering the survey had not responded. Weekly reports by the telemarketing were sent to the PI. Altogether there were two waves of data collection, each with 250 randomly selected companies from the samples. Finally 53 responses were collected.
Funding information
Grant number
ES/J016799/2
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2015
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.
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