A study of greenhouse gas assessment and supplier selection criteria

• Main Authors: Hsuan-Yu Chen, 陳宣瑜
• Other Authors: Yi-Chun Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15308643455162912352

碩士 === 中原大學 === 國際商學碩士學位學程 === 101 === Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from corporate activities are gradually becoming a mainstream management issue for businesses. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Standard launched in 2001 which has been commonly adopted by businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world as the international standard for developing and reporting a corporation’s overall emissions profile of their value chain activities. Through Scope 3 Corporate Standard, companies can recognize potential emissions and associated life cycle environmental risks and opportunities cover in supply chain activities. This research reviewed the previous research in four dimensions: greenhouse gas inventory, corporate supply chain (Scope 3) accounting and reporting standard, supplier selection criteria and supplier selection methodology. In traditional supplier selection method, the selection criteria focused on economic criteria such as quality, delivery and cost. Recent years, as sustainable development rising importance in global business, economic criteria is no longer the only selection principle for companies. Academic institutes and researchers are gradually aware of recognition issues and practices in corporate social reasonability, environmental friendly and risk management. In the earlier study mostly manage supplier selection problem in single level, for example, economic level or environmental level. For instance, in consideration of greenhouse gas inventory associated risks and opportunities cover in supply chain activities, this research proposes four dimensions supplier selection framework integrated organizational level, social level, environmental level and risk level into supplier selection principle consist of twenty sub-criteria applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to analyze the weights of the multi-criteria decision-making factors designed for supplier selection. This study found the regulatory risk, quality and reputation are the three most important supplier selection criteria. This research discovers when corporations encounter greenhouse gas regulations and standards, corporations will adjust the weights of the traditional economic criteria.