Proceedings of 23rd International Business Research Conference
18 - 20 November, 2013, Marriott Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-36-8
A Framework of Performance for Sustainable Supply Chain
Management: Thai Cement Industry
Thanyaphat Muangpan*, Mana Chaowarat** and Jutaporn Neamvonk***
Environmental and social issues are main problems of the world. Under
circumstances, most countries attend the development of large-scale
industry. Moreover, each sector focuses on improving supply chain
management that supports a drive toward economic development. However,
this development finds out environmental effect and social influence. This
paper aims to explore the conceptual framework of performance for
sustainable supply chain management in Thai Cement Industry. This paper
has been used the content analysis which are peer-reviewed journals,
secondary data and in-depth interviews, to investigate the conceptual
framework. The result exploration is conceptual framework related to
accessible operation for sustainable supply chain management in Thai
Cement Industry. There are environmental, social and economic factors, as
way to manage supply chain with the purpose of developing supply chain
management towards sustainability. The limitations of this paper are the
conceptual framework that had been utilized only qualitative approach and
this leads to some bias with content analysis. Furthermore, this conceptual
framework focuses on main dimension of performance for sustainable
supply chain management.
Field of Research: Management (Supply chain Management)
*Thanyaphat Muangpan and **Mana Chaowarat, Faculty of Logistics, Burapha University, Thailand,
E-mail: thanya_donut@hotmail.com and mchaoma@hotmail.com
***Jutaporn Neamvonk, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Thailand,
E-mail: jutaporn@buu.ac.th