Supply Chain Management: Volume 22 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Kannan Govindan, Tsan-Ming Choi

Contingency theory, climate change, and low-carbon operations management

Marcelo Wilson Furlan Matos Alves, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Devika Kannan, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour

Drawing on the theory of contingency, the aim of this work is to understand how supply chain-related contingencies, arising from climate change, are related to changes in the…

Constructing a process model for low-carbon supply chain cooperation practices based on the DEMATEL and the NK model

Chunguang Bai, Joseph Sarkis, Yijie Dou

This paper aims to introduce a joint DEMATEL and NK methodology to develop a process model for introducing and implementing relational supply chain practices for low-carbon supply…

Low carbon supply chain with energy consumption constraints: case studies from China’s textile industry and simple analytical model

Bin Shen, Xuemei Ding, Lizhu Chen, Hau Ling Chan

This paper aims to discuss the low carbon supply chain practices in China’s textile industry. To curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Chinese government has launched restrict…

Contract and incentive mechanism in low-carbon R&D cooperation

Kening Liu, Huaming Song

This paper focuses on how the producer inspires his cooperative research partner to reduce carbon emission, by developing a menu of incentive contracts both in research and…

On green market segmentation under subsidy regulation

Xiang Li, Yongjian Li

This study aims to provide a better understanding of the market balance between regular (high-carbon) and green (low-carbon) products. Further, this study analyses the role of…