Empirical study on practices and performances of green purchasing among chinese manufacturing enterprises

Author

Bin, Liu ; Rong, Zhao ; Hong-jun, Liu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Shenyang Inst. of Aeronaut. Eng., Shenyang

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

2194

Lastpage

2198

Abstract

As a key strategy for enterprises to implement environmental management, green purchasing has an important influence on companypsilas environmental performance and financial performance. Based on the surveys of 275 manufacturing enterprises, this paper identifies main factors of practice and performance on green purchasing through factor analysis using SPSS statistics software. And then, it analyzes data results through regression analysis. The conclusions and future research directions are suggested in the end.

Keywords

environmental management; industrial economics; manufacturing data processing; mathematics computing; purchasing; regression analysis; Chinese manufacturing enterprise; SPSS statistics software; empirical study; environmental management; factor analysis; financial performance; green purchasing; regression analysis; Aerospace engineering; Costs; Electronic equipment manufacture; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Investments; Manufacturing automation; Performance analysis; Regression analysis; Statistical analysis; Business performance; Chinese manufacturing enterprises; Factor analysis; Green purchasing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation and Logistics, 2008. ICAL 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2502-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2503-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAL.2008.4636528

Filename

4636528