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I. INTRODUCTION
Environmental sustainability has been identified as one of
the three arms of development together with social and
economical, and had been sharing the attention of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) projects and competing for
attention in causes and funds [8 & 14]. Moreover, industrial
ecology has been increasing in popularity amongst the
research, corporate and local communities [22]. However it is
noticeable that in Developing Countries, social and
economical initiatives tend to take priority over
environmental programs. While this study does not discuss
these differences or the interrelationships that exist between
the three types of sustainability, it does discuss the role of the
different stakeholders in promoting environmental initiatives
in developing countries and raises the question as to whether
models and drivers for environmental sustainability for
developing countries should be considered differently than
generic models that might work in other regions while
discussing the specifics of the Egyptian Textile Industry.
As companies struggle while competing for the quickly
depleting pools of abundant natural resources, several
organizations have deviated from the mainstream and have
shifted their direction towards becoming green [2 & 21]. The
influences of the natural environment organizational
decisions will not affect the organization that makes the
decision, but its customers and suppliers [16 & 22]. The
concept of turning green has changed in meaning from
organization to organization and from author to author [31];
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A. Government
Government regulations have always been considered a
major factor to introduce superior management practices for
the environmental context and even more important to
enhance such practices. Government regulations represent
the extent to which government agents threaten to or actually
slow down a companys operations according to their
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VII. CONCLUSION
With the boom of globalization companies have been
sourcing from wherever seems appropriate. Resource based
view theories, transaction cost theories, and core
competencies, play a major role in the decision of where to
source. In turn, the increase of global outsourcing lead to the
rising importance of managing global supply chains. We
believe that green supply chains will also evolve from such
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