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The Management of Environmental Performance in the Supply Chain: An Overview

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The Environmental Supply Chain Management (ESCM) has become a buzz-word nowadays. This is in part due to the increasing awareness of companies that the environmental performances need to be managed beyond the organizational boundaries. The present paper aims at contributing to the extant literature through a comparative analysis of some frameworks that attempted to connect the performance measurement with the ESCM. From a methodological point of view, the paper is based on a literature review using as keywords the environmental performance management system and supply chain. Three main frameworks for the performance measurement ESCM were analyzed, in details: the Beamon Model (Logistics Information Management 12(4):332–342, 1999), the Hervani et al. (2007) and the Balanced Scorecard variation proposed by Epstein and Wisner (Balanced Scorecard Report 3(3):8–11, 2001). In so doing, we suggest possible commonalities and differences, arguing the need for further research to develop and understand the way companies manage the environmental performance of their supply chain.

The paper can be attributed to the authors in the following manner: Sects. 1 and 2 to Mouhcine Tallaki, Sects. 3 and 4 to Enrico Bracci.

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    In the literature ESCM is also referred as Green Supply Chain Management. We are going to use the two concepts (ESCM and GSCM) as synonymous.

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  1. Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Enrico Bracci & Mouhcine Tallaki

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    Andrea Chiarini

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Bracci, E., Tallaki, M. (2015). The Management of Environmental Performance in the Supply Chain: An Overview. In: Chiarini, A. (eds) Sustainable Operations Management. Measuring Operations Performance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14002-5_4

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