A Cross-Country Empirical Comparison of Environmental Supply Chain
Management Practices in the Automotive Industry
Qinghua Zhu, Jo Crotty,
and Joseph Sarkis
Asia Business and Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 467-488, 2008.
In this paper we employ a ‘pressures-practice-performance’
framework to compare the adoption and
influence of Environmental Supply Chain Management (ESCM)
practices within the automotive sector
in two economies on different trajectories, the UK and China.
Using an empirical study of 128 organizations, 39 in the UK and 89 in
China, we investigate and tease out some
characteristic observations on ESCM pressures, practices, and performance within the automotive industry.
We provide a general comparative analysis of ESCM pressures practices and performance, with a focus on the similarities and
differences between these two countries.
Using
ipsative t-tests analysis,
our results show that there are more
similarities than differences between ESCM
pressures, practices and performance
in these two countries. The possibility of variations in market development stages
has caused the UK’s
automotive organizations to
experience fewer
external
pressures and greater internal
pressures. Chinese automotive organizations implement generally higher levels of
ESCM practices than UK automotive organizations,
however, this difference
has not resulted in significantly greater
performance
improvement.
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