碩士 / 中原大學 / 國際經營與貿易研究所 / 100 / Since early 1990s, environmental regulations and consumer pressures have encouraged many companies to add the environmental component to supply chain management. Facing the continuing challenge, global corporations have to constantly evaluate and configure their production and distribution systems to provide the desired customer service at the lowest possible cost. However, the logistics activities are regarded as significant sources of environmental pollution and greenhouse emissions, which have harmful impacts on human health and ecosystem quality. Reviewing the literature, the most factors studies concerned are cost, time response, inventory control, transportation, sourcing and customer service. Little research has explored the effect of environmental issues on global logistics, such as reverse logistics, green supply chain. Therefore, this paper will examine the impact of environmental issues to global logistics strategies and business performance.
In this paper, we apply a structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the impact of environmental issues to the global logistics strategies and business performance. Three research hypotheses were proposed. 1. Whether environmental regulations, cost and risk have a positive effect on global logistics strategies.2.Whether global logistics strategies have a significant effect on logistics performance. 3. Under the environmental issues, the global logistics strategies have a positive effect on financial performance. As seen, when developing global logistics strategy, Taiwanese enterprises take the environmental factors into consideration mainly to reduce additional compliance cost, regulatory risk and reputation risk. When developing global logistics strategy to improve logistic performance, some enterprises will change original logistics strategy model due to the addition of the consideration of the environmental factors, expecting to achieve the win-win results in terms of environment and performance.
However, enterprises will start to conduct environmental management to increase additional internal cost to meet the international environmental protection standards when facing environment-related factors. In particular, most Taiwanese enterprises are SMEs, and such additional environmental expenditures will cause negative impact on the corporate financial structure; hence, financial performance cannot be enhanced in short term. In the long term, taking into consideration of environmental issues in global logistics positioning will improve the customer perception, corporate image, competitiveness and market share of the enterprise.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100CYCU5321012 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Chiao-Yu Li, 李巧玉 |
| Contributors | Yi-Chun Kuo, 郭怡君 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 112 |
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