Arkansas Law Review
Keywords
Green supply chain management
Abstract
Greening of company supply chains has become almost de rigueur for large, publicly facing companies. One indication of this situation is the fact that 35 of the Fortune 50 companies and at least 58 of the Fortune 100 companies discuss at least some aspects of their green supply chain management (GSCM) activities on their public websites, primarily under the heading of “responsible sourcing.” These GSCM activities ] have the potential to contribute in very important ways to meeting societal sustainability goals, influencing suppliers that are beyond the reach of the national laws of consumer nations, and driving changes in environmental aspects of supplier operations. For the legal community this trend represents an interesting evolution of environmental law from focusing primarily on government regulation when representing clients to also paying close attention to provisions in supply chain contracts, both from the perspective of the purchaser and the supplier, as well as mitigating legal and reputational risks that may arise throughout a company’s supply chain.
GSCM regimes can be very different from one company to another. Some touch only ‘first tier’ suppliers while others go much deeper into the supply chain; some involve single companies and single products while others involve large collaborative efforts among industry groups; and some employ much more in-depth oversight mechanisms than others. It is therefore important to look beyond the fact that a company imposes supply chain environmental requirements to examine the nature and extent of those requirements.
Recommended Citation
Leroy Paddock & Natasha Rao,
Green Supply Chain Management: A Perspective on Best Practices in GSCM Design,
71 Ark. L. Rev.
487
(2018).
https://doi.org/10.54119/alr.ltpz9010
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol71/iss2/6