Green Supply Chain Management in Food Retail Industry: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Green Supply Chain management (GSCM) has been the focus of many scholars and researchers in recent years, all with a common interest to determine how companies’ performances are being improved with the adoption of GSCM [1]. However, in most of the studies conducted by researchers, they are mainly concerned with the GSCM in manufacturing industry and less attention was given to the food retail industry. Therefore, this research is relevant and intend to explore GSCM further, especially in the context of Malaysian food retail industry so that the results from the findings will be applicable for food retail stores to contribute to improving the companies’ performances through GSCM. Although, this is the first stage exploratory research from relevant literature within this area, the paper presents the proposed conceptual framework and the research hypothesis to further expand upon in the future research studies.

Keyword:Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), Green Logistics, Food Retail, Waste Management