Volume 2,Issue 3
Knowledge Integration and Green Supply Chain Resource Management in NEV Manufacturing: A Practice-Informed View
Does knowledge integration actually make green supply chain resource management work better? This paper takes up that question in China’s NEV manufacturing sector. Three contextual forces receive attention: ASEAN green standard adoption, Zhuang-Chinese bilingual knowledge transfer, and responses to technology iteration. The evidence is practice-based and conceptual. A mismatch appears. Firms have built fairly capable knowledge-integrating routines, and they also run a range of green resource programs. Yet the two do not line up closely. Integration capacity rarely converts directly into measurable sustainability performance. The bottleneck is not knowledge shortage but conversion. External standards, bilingual information, and technical updates become valuable only when they are translated into supplier requirements, shop-floor routines, and traceable material, energy, and carbon records. Knowledge integration is therefore treated as enabling infrastructure. Whether it pays off depends on downstream execution.
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