What is it about?
Environmental and social sustainability are becoming sources of competitive advantage for multinational companies. Consequently, they need to understand how to manage their global manufacturing networks to enhance both environmental and social performance. Results from an international survey show that site competence—that is, having competences in operations beyond the production activities—is an pre-condition for the adoption of environmental and social sustainability programs and.
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Why is it important?
Managers should expect higher achievements in terms of environmental and social performance from those plants that have higher competences in supply chain management and product/process development. Plants with less competence levels should be supported more closely from the headquarters.
Perspectives
The paper focuses on manufacturing plants that are part of multinational enterprises. The paper explains how the decision taken by the headquarters about the role of the different plants in their network deeply affects the capability of the plants themselves to develop sustainability programs. As a consequence the paper suggests differentiated strategies for different plants according to their level of competence.
Dr. Ruggero Golini
Universita degli Studi di Bergamo
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This page is a summary of: Developing sustainability in global manufacturing networks: The role of site competence on sustainability performance, International Journal of Production Economics, January 2014, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.06.010.
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