Conclusions and Advices - 以方法目的鏈探討綠色供應鏈實行於高雄螺絲產業的實務價值

5-1 Research Conclusion

By using MEC approach, this research extracted factors that significantly affect screw industry’s willing to apply GSC. 6 main HVM paths can sum up in 2 kinds of terminal values which are more concerned by screw companies. First is the long-term stabilization from becoming regular business partners and getting reputation by applying GSCM. This type of result usually comes from the companies which have the experience of applying parts of GSCM or having green product demands from customers. But they have already spent years’ effort and cost to build up this type of business model. According the result form HVM, customer and market pressure are the main driving force to construct GSCM. Two previous research (Gualandris &

Kalchschmidt, 2014; Laari, Töyli, Solakivi & Ojala, 2016) have similar result and indicate customer pressure and market demand can significantly improve the company’s environmental and financial performance.

However, the biggest limitation comes from the industrial structure; most of SMEs can’t afford the huge investment beforehand and maintenance cost after building up GSCM. The second type of path just shows most screw companies’ concerns that GSCM is a riskful investment. Because GSCM needs plenty of resources to construct and sustain; for those SMEs, it will be too risky to apply this kind of business model.

Although market demands and environmental regulations have been identified as critical factors for companies to apply GSCM. Screw companies will still encounter the situation of cost increased and insufficient capital to sustain, which will be a huge dilemma. Moreover, even if the company decided to apply GSCM, the cost from

equipment maintenance, relative certification and market uncertainty would be another obstacles for them. Therefor, without some incentive factors to support, screw companies won’t apply GSCM spontaneously.

5-2 Management Implications

GSCM’s advantage has been mentioned by previous researches. Regional Trading Agreements also follow the trend of environmental protection and business sustainability to set their own regulation; Taiwan screw industry highly relies on overseas market. Eventually, this will be an issue that affects the entire screw industry.

Therefore, there are some advices mentioned in following context.

First, government should consider the screw industry’s real concerns. Although, Industrial Development Bureau had announced the NICE project to upgrade screw industry; one of the target is to be Eco-Friendly manufacturing process. But the concrete detail procedures and steps are still unknown. Screw industry is full of various production process and complex supplier relationship, which will not be so easy to just adopt a single procedure to upgrade this industry. However, most of screw companies usually have constructed relative equipments and self-control procedure in order to follow domestic environmental regulations; this means our screw industry has a basic knowledge and experience to integrate them into GSCM. This research’s result has showed that market demands can encourage screw industry to apply GSCM. But, at the same time, most of companies will still concern about their capital limitation and market uncertainty. To do so, government can’t just pour money into hardware adding but try to promoting and displaying Taiwan’s ability of green production; it will attract more overseas customers and demands. This will not only provide an incentive factor

for them but also reduce the risk and concerns. Besides, those GSCM certification (e.g., ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and FSC) need a lot of efforts and professional information to apply. Most of screw companies havn’t had such ability to do so; government should provide resource and money support to help them. In addition, the government has the power to legislate domestic environmental which should follow the international stander; this will be another push for screw industry to apply environmental procedures.

Second, screw industry or relative managers may consider GSCM could be an issue impacting companies’ profit margin. Due to screw industry is an export-oriented industry and facing increasing competition, it won’t be enough to passively follow the pressure from regulation or market demands. Even though GSCM is an enormous integration and most of SMEs have capital limitation; taking small and ongoing steps to upgrade is a great principle for screw industry. During the interview process, some respondents even mentioned that their companies would be very pleased to share their experience to construct their green management procedures. Besides, GSCM needs lots of supply chain integration and business cooperation. Forming an industry alliance may be a good strategy to improve overall competitiveness and achieve this target; Taiwan’s Bicycle A-Team strategy has demonstrated a very great example, which brought the entire bicycle industry and relative companies into a brand-new level. Recently, the Taiwan Industrial Fasteners Institute has speeded up this kind of integration, which is an excellent start. Finally, screw industry should really concern that the phenomenon of screw industry ageing and lacking young generation employees. One of the core values of GSCM is labor-friendly environment that may attract more young and talented worker to join this industry. Therefore, applying GSCM can bring many win-win situations.

Third, NGO or customers can utilize customer’s pressure to push screw industry to apply GSCM or following the environmental regulation. Although screw industry puts more efforts on the overseas market, domestic people still can press for government’s regulation legislation and supervise their environmental procedures. To sum up, by uniting customers’ influences, it will not be an ignored power to push and encourage screw industry to follow environmental regulation and GSCM procedures.

5-3 Limitation and Future Research

This research used MEC approach and interviewed 32 screw companies in Kaohsiung. Some research limitations and future research advices are described in following context. First, this research only focused on Kaohsiung screw companies which are just part of the screw industry. There are several important screw industry areas located in New Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Changhua, and Tainan. Each area may have their own unique perspective of GSCM, which may find out some useful information by comparing their differentiation. Second, the sample size may not show the entire perspective of Kaohsiung screw industry; according to office report, around 600 screw companies spreading in Kaohsiung’s industrial area, which may have more undiscovered factors affecting GSCM decision. Besides, respondents are only from manufacturing factories and wholesalers; it may limit the research result not able to get an overall aspect. Hence, future research can expand the diversity of respondents and the sample size. Third, this research only operated soft laddering method, which may contain personal prejudice and misunderstanding. Future research may consider cross-use of soft and hard laddering, which can improve research’s accuracy.

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