The multi-tier sustainable supply chain relationship (MSSCR) is a socially important topic receiving greater attention in the supply chain research community. MSSCR research investigation is difficult. There is greater complexity associated with broader sets of organizations, practices,...

Environmental regulations are important drivers making organizations take their environmental performance seriously. Environmental regulatory mechanisms include ‘carrots’ or ‘sticks’—they can be incentive or coercive-based. The question exists on which type of mechanism would be most...

Purpose - There is great uncertainty and volatility in the evaluation and measurement of green supplier satisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap based on the information entropy theory (IET) to describe the probability of green supplier satisfaction degree....

We construct two operational systems of a perishable firm, the traditional and quick-response systems, selling to strategic consumers with regrets or without regrets over two periods. When strategic consumers buy the product at the full-price period, they may experience high-price regret....

We compare a patient firm’s markdown (MD), price commitment (PC) and price matching (PM) selling to patient strategic consumers over two periods. Strategic consumers may choose to wait, depending on their level of patience under MD, while they will not choose to wait under PC. Under PM, to...

Outsourcing decisions by organizations have strategic and operational implications. Strategically, understanding the market and competition is necessary to make effective outsourcing decisions. In this paper we recognize this concern and model the situation where an organization with quality and...

While the use of internal, external, and both types of environmental audits are becoming more pervasive in society, little is known about the stakeholder influences associated with their use, in large part because previous research has viewed them as a uniform type of management practice. This...

The article is focused on ESCM - environmentally sustainable supply chain management. The main question is: how can organizations develop a ‘business case’ for valuing the practice? The answer goes far beyond environmental and technical improvements

With economic globalization and the emergence of extended enterprises derived from interrelationship among organizations, there has been a steady increase in offshoring outsourcing activities. Subsequently, the strategic importance of offshoring decisions is important. Traditional offshoring...

The information technology (IT) and IT products industry has become the essential "first pillar" industry and an important force behind the growth of China's national economy. However, information technology-related electrical and electronic waste has also caused a considerable environmental...