Factors for implementing green supply chain management in the construction industry
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
JIEM
2013-0953
Factors for Implementing Green Supply Chain Management in the Construction Industry
Mochamad Agung Wibowo 1
Naniek Utami Handayani 0
Anita Mustikasari 0
0 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University , Indonesia
1 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University , Indonesia
Purpose: The objectives of this study are to elaborate on the concepts, dimensions and elements of green supply chain management (GSCM) and develop a framework of GSCM implementation for the construction industry Design/methodology/approach: This paper presents the findings from a study where experts were asked to contribute their opinions related to GSCM in the construction industry. To develop the model, the Delphi method was used. The objective of this method is to achieve the most reliable consensus in a group of experts Findings: The research result is a developed framework for GSCM in the construction industry comprising five concepts, 22 dimensions, and 82 elements. Research limitations/implications: The limitation of this research is that its output was the discovered elements, but it did not cover the implementation of this model in construction projects, so some elements may be missing. Practical implications: The output of the research could give new perspective to manage the construction project based on Green Supply Chain Method. Social implications: The stakeholder of the construction project has to learn with this concept (Green Supply Chain) in order to improve construction's project performance. Originality/value: The originality of this research is that it is a new theme in the area of the construction supply chain. Previous research merely considered the concept of GSCM in construction. Therefore, this research develops an assessment model for performance indicators of GSCM implementation in construction projects.
green supply chain management; construction industry; construction waste; project life cycle
1. Introduction
Sustainable growth has been featured around the world as a fundamental rule for building up and overseeing
authoritative strategies, since the 2005 announcement of the Kyoto Protocol
(Wang, Chen, Lee & Tsai, 2013)
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Resource constraints, rising fuel and energy prices causing irreparable damage, increasing concerns over carbon
emissions, resource scarcity, climate change and waste generation have become business environment challenges
that must be faced (Dadhich, Genovese, Kumar & Acquaye, 2015).
Observation from the stakeholders’ points of view, including those of the contractor (Qi, Shen, Zeng & Jorge,
2010) and developer (Abidin, 2010), only covers a small number of supply chain issues that are successfully
addressed. While governments, practitioners and researchers have made efforts to deal with the negative factors
associated with this field, most attempts have been disjointed and fragmented. The issues include green
transportation (BRE, 2003), purchasing (Varnäs, Balfors & Faith-Ell, 2009) and green practices
(Qi et al., 2010)
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Due to the impact of a lack of comprehensive understanding, policymakers and practitioners would potentially be
incorrect in their focus, addressing the wrong issues and omitting factors that have a greater influence. The
important delivery chain stakeholders, such as the developers, consultants, suppliers and contractors, at the myriad
stages of the supply chain must achieve the net greening of a production task to attain their opposing goals ( UN
Global Compact, 2010; UNEP-SBCI, 2016). Presently, only a few studies have focussed on the construction
sector, conducting systematic and comprehensive green studies on sundry supply chain stages and stakeholders. A
green supply chain management (GSCM) approach to solving the relevant problems can be studied in terms of the
following elements:
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Stakeholders’ implementation of green practice;
Stakeholders’ motivation for applying such methods;
Stakeholders’ barriers in the implementation of these practices; and
The implications for overall performance.
GSCM-associated investigations have given advantages to the manufacturing and automotive sectors (Malviya &
Kant, 2015); for greening the construction sector, a comprehensive GSCM-orientated study is required to provide
complete awareness of the various essential conditions. This motivated research seeking to develop and validate a
multidimensional GSCM framework for the construction sector that would embrace all the important supply chain
stages and account for the roles of the numerous stakeholders and consider the framework to comprehensively
establish the GSCM factors of the construction sector. The purposes of this GSCM study on the construction
sector are as follows:
To develop the relevant GSCM constructs; To develop a comprehensive GSCM assessment framework that captures the interrelationships between the constr (...truncated)