School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province 116024, PR China.
J Environ Manage. 2010 Jun;91(6):1324-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.02.013. Epub 2010 Mar 11.
The rapidly growing industrial activities in emerging economies such as China have been causing resource depletion and pollution problems. This reality requires China to adopt an integrated management approach to resolve the conflict between industrial development and environmental protection, and the concept of circular economy (CE) serves this purpose. In this paper, we examine if different types of manufacturing enterprises on environmental-oriented supply chain cooperation (ESCC) exist. We also determine if the Chinese manufacturer types varying in ESCC differ in their implementation of the CE practices towards achieving the CE-targeted goals on improving both environmental and economic performance. Our cluster analytic results with multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) among the four identified types of Chinese manufacturers varying in environmental-oriented supply chain cooperation highlight the importance to intensify the cooperation with upstream and downstream supply chain partners for a CE initiative to succeed.
在新兴经济体（如中国），快速增长的工业活动导致了资源枯竭和污染问题。这一现实要求中国采取综合管理方法来解决工业发展与环境保护之间的冲突，而循环经济（CE）理念正好可以满足这一需求。在本文中，我们研究了不同类型的制造企业在环境导向的供应链合作（ESCC）方面是否存在差异。我们还确定了在 ESCC 方面存在差异的中国制造商类型在实施 CE 实践方面是否存在差异，以实现提高环境和经济绩效的 CE 目标。我们对四种不同类型的中国制造商（基于环境导向的供应链合作）进行聚类分析，并使用多元方差分析（MANOVA），结果突出了加强与上下游供应链合作伙伴合作的重要性，以推动 CE 计划的成功。
