期刊及卷期：
Managerial and Decision Economics, 第44卷, 第8期, 第4232 - 4247 (SSCI)頁
摘要：
Green supply chain management (GSCM) has been applied by semiconductor firms
to ameliorate environmental problems. This study aims to evaluate the green performance
of semiconductor supply chains to examine the effect of GSCM. Using the
meta-frontier Malmquist productivity index as the research method, and a sample of
global semiconductor firms consisting of three groups, design, manufacturing, and
assembling, as research objects, this study evaluates variation in performance while
considering environmental variables and disregarding environmental variables respectively,
and compares the differences between those two conditions for the whole
supply chain and each group in the supply chain. This study discovers no significant
differences in both considering and disregarding environmental variables scenarios,
productivity of the whole supply chain shows progress. This study found the investment
in enhancing technology development as a more important factor in productivity
improvement and identifies design as the global leading sub-industry in the
semiconductor supply chain.
1 | INTRODUCTION
Rapid technology development stimulates the growth and expansion
of the semiconductor industry. From 2010 to 2018, the output
quantity traded increased from 700 billion units to 1 trillion units
(IC Insights, 2018). However simultaneously, many worrying environmental
problems have accompanied this growth. As the quantity and
precision of semiconductor products advance, more resources and
energy are consumed during the production process (Plepys, 2004),
and more greenhouse gases are emitted. Semiconductor companies
have attempted to solve the environmental problem with technological
development and operating efficiency improvement, or by implementing
green supply chain management (GSCM). Yet the results of
such efforts have been difficult to assess. Thus, the most crucial and
urgent matter is to establish a green evaluation mechanism to assess
performance improvement and environmental effects.
An enormous amount of energy is consumed during the IC
manufacturing process.
