Charlotte Leire
Lecturer
Increasing the environmental and social sustainability in corporate purchasing: Practices and tools
Author
Summary, in English
The research presented in this thesis concentrates on the perspective of the purchasers. The research concludes that that green purchasing practices in private sector organizations in Sweden remain limited, and mainly focus products of strategic importance. The most common approach in applying environmental and social requirements is the supplier performance based approach. Few purchasers use, and are aware of, the range of information tools that are currently available. The obstacles among purchasing managers to use information tools in green purchasing seem to vary with the type of purchasing situation.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2009
Language
English
Publication/Series
IIIEE Doctoral dissertations
Volume
2009:1
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
IIIEE, Lund University
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- Green Purchasing
- Information tools
- Environmental Management
- Environmental and social requirements
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Thomas Lindhqvist
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1402-3016
Defence date
28 May 2009
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
Aulan, Internationella miljöinstitutet, Tegnérsplatsen 4, Lund
Opponent
- Ole Jörgen Hanssen (Dr. techn.)