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Industrial Marketing Management

Special Issue on

Green marketing and its impact on supply chain management in industrial markets

CALL FOR PAPERS

Green branding and sustainability have attracted much attention from both the practitioners and academics from different business disciplines, such as marketing, supply chain management, and information management. Despite the increasing salience for being greener and more sustainable (due to, for example, public pressure and environmental legislation), no holistic framework exists on how to build green industrial brands and industrial corporate brands. Building strong green industrial brands requires not only green marketing, but also green operations and green supply chain management. In addition, globalization and international sourcing exert extra pressure and challenges on designing and implementing a truly green and sustainable supply chain from the global perspective.

Whether or not sustainable/green supply chains can be integrated with green industrial marketing in building greener organizations and industrial brands is still unclear. For example, how industrial organizations can make use of both supply chain sustainability and green industrial marketing to create a competitive edge in the marketplace and along the supply chain network is not well formulated. From operations and supply chain side, for example, the reduction of waste (such as operations efficiency, delivery and distribution network), which is the core principle of lean operations, could be considered as a form of sustainability. Advances in information technology can also help to reduce waste (e.g. papers and energy) to a certain extent. A number of other tools such as life cycle assessment, eco-design for cradle-to-grave product development, etc., are available. This is not surprising because the aforementioned tools or techniques are more visible internally than externally. From a marketing perspective, for example, although green consumers and consumption have received some attention, little is known on the factors on green B2B marketing and green organizational purchase behaviour. Better understanding on how and why organizations choose green suppliers has significant implications for green B2B marketing. Green industrial branding could be an important industrial marketing effort in conveying the capability of sustainability. However, further development in this regard is needed. In addition, green industrial branding requires green industrial product development. Little is known on the factors on green new industrial product development or how green new industrial products are adopted by organizations. Specifically, we know little of whether and how green supply chain enables green new industrial product development.

In this connection, the objectives of this special issue are to reflect the most recent advances on green industrial marketing, green/sustainable supply chains and their interplay in green industrial branding, and to explore future research directions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Sustainable strategy and market & brand performances of industrial organizations
• Green B2B branding
• Framework of industrial corporate branding
• The relationship between green industrial product development and green supply chain
• Green organizational purchase behavior
• Green professional services marketing to business organizations
• How to measure green brand equity in the B2B context
• Impact of green supplier and industrial brands on client brand loyalty
• The role of green supply chain in green industrial branding
• Institutional factors (e.g. regulation, policy, international low carbon framework) and green supply chain
• Cultural values, green industrial branding and green supply chain
• Green international supply chain
• Interplay between building a low carbon society and green supply chain management
• Interplay between ‘green’ industrial suppliers and buyers
• Relationship between green supply chains and corporate social/environmental responsibility
• Diffusion of sustainable and energy-efficient technology to industrial organizations
• Reverse logistics and closed loop supply chains in the industrial marketplace
• The role of information systems, human resource management, and other management disciplines in green/sustainable supply chain and green industrial branding
• Legal and ethic issues of green marketing and the supply channel

In particular, we seek original contributions on successful real-life applications and empirical research of sustainable or green supply chains and the impacts on marketing theory. Conceptual papers or other related topics, supported by strong theoretical background, are also welcome. All submitted papers must demonstrate a clear application in B2B or industrial markets.

Manuscript Preparation and Submission

Manuscripts should comply with the scope, standards, format and editorial policy of the Industrial Marketing Management. Manuscripts should be submitted as an e-mail attachment with a single MSWord file containing the complete manuscript (Title, text, figures, tables, appendices, references) to the guest editors with a copy to plaplaca@journalimm.com. All papers will be reviewed through a double-blind peer review process. In preparation of their manuscripts, authors are asked to follow the Author Guidelines closely. A guide for authors, sample articles and other relevant information for submitting papers are available at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/indmarman

Important Dates

Deadline for manuscript submissions April 30, 2011
First round review report August 1, 2011
Revised paper submission October 1, 2011
Final acceptance December 1, 2011

Guest Editors

Dr. Hing Kai Chan
Norwich Business School,
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
e-mail: h.chan@uea.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591388

Dr. Hongwei He
Warwick Business School
The University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK
e-mail: hongwei.he@wbs.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)24 76150366

Dr. William Yu Chung Wang
School of Business,
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
e-mail: william.wang@act.ac.nz
Tel: +64 9 9219999 Ext5048

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