Abstract
The rapid increasing number of automobile products has brought great convenience to people’s living, but it has also caused serious environmental issues, waste of resources and energy shortage during its whole lifecycle. Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) refers to the company’s responsibility to avoid damage to the natural environment derived from its corporate social responsibility (CSR), and it plays an important role in solving resource and environmental problems. However, due to various internal and external reasons, it is difficult for the automobile manufacturing industry to find the key drivers for the implementation of CER. This research proposes a model framework that uses the fuzzy decision-making test and evaluation laboratory (fuzzy DEMATEL) method to analyze the drivers of CER from the perspective of the triple bottom line (TBL) of economy, environment and society. Firstly, the common drivers of CER are collected using literature review and questionnaire survey methods. Secondly, the key drivers are analyzed by using the fuzzy DEMATEL. Finally, the proposed approach was verified through a case study. The research results show that some effective measures to implement CER can be provided for the government, the automobile manufacturing industry and the public to promote sustainable development of Chinese Auto Manufacturing Industry (CAMI).
Highlights
According to relevant survey reports, the number of Chinese new automobiles almost exceeded 25.76 million, and the amount of Chinese vehicle ownership reached more than 260 million up to 2019
The results show that government regulations (A2), competitive advantage (A11), green supply chain pressure (A13) and green technology innovation (A5), incentive measures (A1) and standards (A3) are the six key drivers that promote the effective implementation of Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) in the automotive industry
Based on the perspective of triple bottom line (TBL), and through the fuzzy DEMATEL method, we identified six key drivers from 16 common drivers, including government regulations (A2), green supply chain pressure (A13), green technological innovation (A5), competitive advantage (A11), standards (A3), and incentive measures (A1)
Summary
According to relevant survey reports, the number of Chinese new automobiles almost exceeded 25.76 million, and the amount of Chinese vehicle ownership reached more than 260 million up to 2019. The rapid growth of the number of automobiles has brought a series of environmental issues. In the process of automobile production, use, recycling and disposal, air, soil, water, etc., will be polluted to a certain extent, resulting in waste of resources and energy shortage [1]. These environmental issues have aroused widespread concern from the government, enterprises and scholars. While the Chinese government is strengthening environmental supervision of the automotive industry, the extension of the production responsibility and Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) have become hot topics of concern to many automotive industry units. Many Chinese auto companies are aware of the importance of sustainable development, and have implemented some sustainable development strategies, such as CER, remanufacturing, green manufacturing and cleaner production [2,3,4,5,6]
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