Green supply chain management: impact on environmental performance and firm competitiveness

Citation

Yeo, Sook Fern and Tan, Cheng Ling and Mohd. Zailani, Suhaiza Hanim and Tan, Sieow Chin (2019) Green supply chain management: impact on environmental performance and firm competitiveness. Int. J. Sustainable Strategic Management, 7 (1/2). pp. 91-111. ISSN 1753-3600

[img] Text
12j.pdf - Published Version
Restricted to Repository staff only

Download (323kB)

Abstract

Unrestrained industrialisation resulting in environmental pollution has mobilised the unstinting endeavours of scientist, researchers, policy makers and ecologist in a quest to rapidly unearth solutions to mitigate further environmental deterioration. One promising ongoing development is green supply chain management (GSCM), which promises a reduction of pollution and waste in manufacturing. GSCM achieves this through the mechanism of improving manufacturing efficiency, by reducing costs, enhancing product quality and improving product delivery. This study applies the natural resource-based view, and quantitatively examines the impact of the implementation of GSCM on firm environmental performance, and firm competitiveness. Data was collected from 122 sampled firms, analysed, and evaluated in two ways. Firstly, using partial least squared-structured equation modelling (PLS-SEM), results indicate that ‘green procurement’, and ‘green supplier and customer collaboration’, have a significant positive relationship with both firm environmental performance, and, firm competitiveness. Secondly, using importance-performance matrix analysis (IPMA), both ‘green procurement’ and ‘green supplier and customer collaboration’ are mapped in the high in importance/high-performance quadrant. The practical recommendations are for organisations to prioritise efforts and resources towards ‘green procurement’ and ‘green supplier and customer collaboration’ in order to maximise the return on ‘green’ investment

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Green supply chain management; GSCM; green procurement; green production; firm environmental performance; firm competitiveness; manufacturing firm; supplier; customer; collaboration.
Subjects: T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Business (FOB)
Depositing User: Ms Suzilawati Abu Samah
Date Deposited: 10 May 2022 01:45
Last Modified: 10 May 2022 01:45
URII: http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/9419

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View ItemEdit (login required)