生产者责任延伸制下的绿色供应链治理研究——基于环境规制交互分析视角

Green Supply Chain Governance with Extended Producer Responsibility:Based on Interactive Analysis of Environmental Regulation

我国生产者责任延伸制度的实施依赖环境立法的强制性,但政府环境规制对企业延伸责任的治理散落于各种法律法规文件,缺乏结合供应链层面的系统性治理路径研究。本文以中国EPR的实施为制度背景,探索企业在绿色供应链治理过程中面向环境规制的合法化问题。本研究选择我国11个EPR相关法律样本,从环境规制交互分析的视角对绿色供应链治理进行分析。结果显示,企业环境责任的履行伴随环境规制体系的动态演进,EPR下企业环境履责面临权义分配和供应链责任联结方面的挑战。本研究指出政府和企业是EPR制度下绿色供应链治理的主导力量,公民和其他服务型组织存在巨大潜力,而多主体联动的绿色供应链治理模式将成为企业新的竞争优势。

As an environmental policy,the Extended Producer Responsibility(EPR)system was created in Europe to reduce waste disposal,save resources,improve recovery rate and promote ecological design.The implementation of the EPR system in China relies on the compulsory environmental legislation.However,due to the government environmental regulations governing the extended responsibility of enterprises scattered in various laws and regulations,there is still a lack of systematic integration of the supply chain research on governance path.This article takes the implementation of China`s EPR as the institutional background and explores the legalization of environmental regulation in the process of green supply chain governance.Based on corporate social responsibility theory,stakeholder theory and supply chain governance concepts,this study selects 11 environmental legal documents related to EPR in China,dynamically analyzes the evolution of corporate environmental responsibility,and conducts quantitative analysis of stakeholders,governance methods and supply chain stages.From the perspective of interactive analysis,the governance characteristics of stakeholders are identified,and the distribution characteristics of supply chain governance are obtained.The study finds that the fulfillment of corporate environmental responsibility is accompanied by the dynamic evolution of the environmental regulatory system.Under the EPR system,we verified the enterprise`s environmental responsibility faces challenges in terms of rights-and-obligations allocation and supply chain responsibility linkage.We point out that the government and enterprises are the dominant forces in green supply chain governance under the EPR system,citizens and service-oriented organizations have huge potential,and a green supply chain governance model considering multiple-stakeholder interaction has the potential to become a new competitive advantage for enterprises.This finding implies that the supply chain governance environment,composed of multiple stakeholders such as the government,social organizations,and the public,provides more opportunities for enterprises to achieve environmental transformation,implement environmental information disclosure,and improve environmental governance mechanisms,and meanwhile brings enterprises more challenges for sustainable green growth.