Supply Chain Management, 5e (Chopra/Meindl)
Chapter 18 Sustainability and the Supply Chain
18.1 True/False Questions
1) A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more conscious customers
while often improving supply chain performance.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
2) A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more conscious customers
while often reducing supply chain performance.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
3) Walmart started its focus on sustainability as a defensive move given the beating it was taking
from environmental activists.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
4) Customers have usually backed up words about the importance of sustainability with a
willingness to pay more for sustainable products.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
5) Hardin (1968) described the tragedy of the commons as a dilemma arising when the common
good does not align perfectly with the good of individual entities.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
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, 6) Hardin (1968) described the tragedy of the commons as a dilemma arising when the common
good aligns perfectly with the good of individual entities.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
7) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that has been
assessing global warming since 1990, has written that even though most of the buildup of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere has come from the United States and Western Europe, it is poorer
countries that are closer to the equator that are likely to pay the biggest price.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
8) In reality, there are no actions in a supply chain that improve both sustainability and supply
chain surplus.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.3 Key Metrics for Sustainability
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
9) For most firms, the extent of direct emissions is typically only a small fraction of the extent of
indirect emissions in the supply chain.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 3
Topic: 18.3 Key Metrics for Sustainability
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
10) Facilities often offer the best opportunity to simultaneously improve the environmental and
financial performance through innovation.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.4 Sustainability and Supply Chain Drivers
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
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Chapter 18 Sustainability and the Supply Chain
18.1 True/False Questions
1) A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more conscious customers
while often improving supply chain performance.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
2) A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more conscious customers
while often reducing supply chain performance.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
3) Walmart started its focus on sustainability as a defensive move given the beating it was taking
from environmental activists.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
4) Customers have usually backed up words about the importance of sustainability with a
willingness to pay more for sustainable products.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.1 The Role of sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
5) Hardin (1968) described the tragedy of the commons as a dilemma arising when the common
good does not align perfectly with the good of individual entities.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
18-1
, 6) Hardin (1968) described the tragedy of the commons as a dilemma arising when the common
good aligns perfectly with the good of individual entities.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Ethical Understanding & Reasoning Abilities
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
7) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that has been
assessing global warming since 1990, has written that even though most of the buildup of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere has come from the United States and Western Europe, it is poorer
countries that are closer to the equator that are likely to pay the biggest price.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.2 The Tragedy of the Commons
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
8) In reality, there are no actions in a supply chain that improve both sustainability and supply
chain surplus.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.3 Key Metrics for Sustainability
AACSB: Analytic Skills
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
9) For most firms, the extent of direct emissions is typically only a small fraction of the extent of
indirect emissions in the supply chain.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 3
Topic: 18.3 Key Metrics for Sustainability
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
10) Facilities often offer the best opportunity to simultaneously improve the environmental and
financial performance through innovation.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 18.4 Sustainability and Supply Chain Drivers
Learning Outcome: Compare common approaches to supply chain design
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