绿色物流策略-分析使用模式外翻译.doc

绿色物流策略-分析使用模式外文翻译 GREEN LOGISTICS STRATEGIES: AN ANALYSIS OF USAGE PATTERNS Abstract Environmental issues affect numerous logistical decisions throughout the value chain. This research identifies strategies that are most and least popular for managing and responding to such issues, and provides evidence of relationships between select company characteristics and the particular types of strategies employed in managing logistics-related environmental impacts. Data sources included companies in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Study results suggest that the green logistics strategies of recycling materials, reducing consumption, and reusing materials are universally popular among western industrialized nations. Firms that exhibit more intense commitment to environmentalism than their peers augment use of these universal strategies with various specialized thrusts, such as environmental audits There is little question that environmental issues have become an important consideration for many business decision makers in recent years, with some corporate executives having referred to the 1990s as the decade of the environment. Many companies are designing their products to be more environmentally friendly, and many are using more environmentally friendly packaging materials. Estimates of the current environmental, or green, market range upwards of $200 billion. While there is a burgeoning body of literature involving environmental issues in other business disciplines such as marketing, the corresponding literature involving logistics has been characterized as small but expanding. Spurring this expansion is the recognition by a number of writers, such as Lambert and Stock as well as Handfield and Nichols, that responding to environmental issues will be one of the major challenges facing logistics and supply chain management in the foreseeable future.Such recognition tends to confirm the view that environmentalism has come of age as a major topic i