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Green supply chain management in local and multinational high-tech companies located in Brazil

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The objective of this article is to analyse how green supply chain management (GSCM) practices are being adopted by some high-tech companies located in Brazil. The research was conducted using the case study approach, focusing on eight companies that are representative of this sector. The main results are: (a) the most adopted GSCM practices in the studied high-tech companies located in Brazil are internal environmental management, investment recovery and reverse logistics and (b) Brazilian environmental legislation and international policies are very important in driving the adoption of GSCM practices. The internationalisation of companies was also found to be a variable that interferes with the adoption of GSCM practices. This is one of the first studies that examine the relationship between GSCM and the internationalisation of companies located in Brazil.

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  1. School of Engineering, UNESP—Univ Estadual Paulista (Sao Paulo State University), Av. Eng. Luiz Edmundo C. Coube, 14-01, DEP-FE, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil, CEP 17033360

    Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Fernanda de Souza Azevedo, Ariana Fernandes Arantes & Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour

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Jabbour, A.B.L.S., Azevedo, F.S., Arantes, A.F. et al. Green supply chain management in local and multinational high-tech companies located in Brazil. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 68, 807–815 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-4945-6

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