By the rapid spread of global warming worldwide, the Arctic and the Antarctic glaciers have been disappearing. Environmental changes of the surrounding areas are greatly influenced and environmental problems are emerging. Thus, significant changes of ...
By the rapid spread of global warming worldwide, the Arctic and the Antarctic glaciers have been disappearing. Environmental changes of the surrounding areas are greatly influenced and environmental problems are emerging. Thus, significant changes of the global environment including global warming are watched by the whole world and recognition of sustainable development which preserving the global environment and promoting industrial development is increa- sing.
Various environmental regulations imposed by the developed countries appear to have a variety of trade restrictions for protecting the environment. All companies rather than one company on supply chain management must have the appropriate countermeasures to respond properly to the environmental regulations. Even if a particular company responds well, one company's carelessness can affect all companies on supply chain.
As the environmental regulations for products is strengthened, countermeasures should be prepared and environmental regulation is becoming an issue in terms of supply chain management. Com- pany's cultivation of eco-friendly supply chain management has become the key of competitive power. Thus, a study is needed on how companies respond to environmental regulations in terms of supply chain management.
The purpose of this study is to identify the type that Korea's export manufacturing companies respond to market conditions through eco-friendly supply chain and understand the relationship between the impact of level of implementation and companies' performance, and suggest strategic plans which can improve business performance to effectively deal with environmental issues emerged as a topic of competitive power.
In this study, variables were extracted to analyze the relationship among the corresponding types of eco-friendly supply chain, level of implementation and companies' performance by preceding research. The survey questions were distributed to 600 people targeting export manufacturers, 310 of all were used and regression analysis was performed with SPSS 12.0. The results of this study are as follows;
First, the average of corresponding types of eco-friendly supply chain, level of implementation and Korean companies' performance was analyzed. As a result, domestic companies are most sensitive to environmental movements of competitors
Second, factors which have the greatest impact to the companies' internal environmental management level are type of green markets and then type of competitors' countermeasures and type of environmental regulations do not affect.
Third, for companies, type of green markets is the most important and then type of competitors' countermeasures is important in order to increase the level of green procurement.
Fourth, for eco-design level, only type of green markets is mea- ningful. Thus, type of environmental regulations and type of competitors' countermeasures nearly influence.
Fifth, green procurement is a key parameter which has the greatest impact on environmental performance and business performance of companies. In other words, environmental performance and business performance of companies are mostly achieved by green procurement through eco-friendly supply chain.
The implications of this hypothesis results are as follows;
First, when approaching a eco-friendly supply chain, green market is expanded hereafter and systematic strategies should be developed with positive attitude
Second, the core of eco-friendly supply chain management is the partnership. The people concerned involved in supply chain management should understand clearly on environmental management plan and win-win partnership strategies pursuing common interests needs to be performed.
Third, eco-friendly activities should produce successfully environmental performance and business performance and strategies should be planned to open and share the encompassing evaluation index of eco-friendly supply chain.