Green Supply Chain Management in Greece: Practices and Attitudes in Environmental Assessment and Selection of Suppliers

The paper presents a survey of the practices and attitudes of Greek Purchasing Managers towards green sourcing. By adopting a macro-level practice perspective, a questionnaire recording such practices and attitudes at the strategic level was developed and distributed to purchasing managers. A total of 749 responses indicated an overall support for green sourcing. However, although purchasing managers consider important the audits of their suppliers, they trust more third parties for carrying out such as assessments. In addition, it seems they prefer to have suppliers at a distance in strategic issues related to green supply chain management. And although they support a stricter environmental legislation in general, they are not so enthusiastic when this legislation concerns their supply chain management practices. These somehow contradicting results provide leads for focusing in-depth qualitative research to understand Purchasing Managers behavior with respect to green sourcing.