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Supply Chain Management:
Strategy, Planning, and Operation 7th Global Edition Sunil Chopra Test Bank All Chapters 1-17, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade.
All Chapters Arranged Reverse: 17-1
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Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 7e, Global Edition (Chopra) Chapter 17 Sustainability and the Supply Chain
17.1 True/False Questions
1) A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more environmentally conscious customers while often improving supply chain performance.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 17.1: The Role of Sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain.
2) Walmart started its focus on sustainability as a defensive move given the beating it was taking from environmental activists.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.1: The Role of Sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain.
3) 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: 17.1: The Role of Sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain.
4) It is more difficult to focus on sustainability at the supply chain level than at the individual firm level.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.1: The Role of Sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain.
5) In the short to medium term, a focus on supply chain sustainability tends to provide costs that are shared but benefits that are local to a firm or individual.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.1: The Role of Sustainability in a Supply Chain
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain.
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6) 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: 17.2: The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning
Objective: LO 17.2: Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons.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: 17.2: The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.2: Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons.
8) In a command- and-control approach, the government or regulators help the common good by setting standards that everyone must adhere to.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 17.2: The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.2: Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons.
9) In a cap- and-trade approach, the government creates an infinite number of tradeable emission allowances that must be surrendered to the companies generating the largest emissions.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.2: The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.2: Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons.
10) An emissions tax is characterized as a progressive tax because it charges each entity a tax proportional to their environmental emissions.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.2: The Tragedy of the Commons
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.2: Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons.
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11) In reality, there are no actions in a supply chain that improve both sustainability and supply chain surplus.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 17.3: Key Pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.3: Describe key pillars of corporate social responsibility.
12) An example of a relative measure of emission output is pounds of CO2 per gallon of diesel fuel.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.3: Key Pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.3: Describe key pillars of corporate social responsibility.13) The social pillar measures a firm's ability to address issues that are important for its workforce, customers, and society.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.3: Key Pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.3: Describe key pillars of corporate social responsibility.
14) A firm's new sustainability improvement initiative is best begun by focusing on resource reduction activities.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Topic: 17.3: Key Pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.3: Describe key pillars of corporate social responsibility.
15) 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: 17.3: Key Pillars of Corporate Social Responsibility
AACSB: Application of knowledge
Objective: LO 17.3: Describe key pillars of corporate social responsibility.
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