Exploring firm performance by institutional pressures driven green supply chain management practices

The impact of green supply chain management practices on sustainable development goals: The case of mining sector in Jordan

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the greening practices adopted by micro, small and medium enterprises in India and recommend an empirically tested and validated green supply chain management (GSCM) practices construct. The study also aims at measuring the influence of pressures created by external and internal stakeholders on the GSCM score.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a mixed-method approach. Qualitative methods, including literature review, expert opinion, focused group discussions and questionnaire-based surveys, were used for item generation and data collection. Quantitative methods included exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to find out the reasonable number of constructs to include in the scale of the GSCM practice, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to purify/confirm the scale, and finally, structural equation modelling (SEM) to select the best fit model and to test all causal relationships as portrayed in the base model. In the two-stage survey, convenience and purposive sampling methods were applied.FindingsThe study develops an empirically validated scale of GSCM practices, which has 6 dimensions and 16 items. This scale can measure the greening score of GSCM practices implementation. Further, findings confirm that the pressures from external and internal stakeholders are the significant forces for micro, small and medium enterprises to adopt GSCM practices. Finally, mediation function of external/internal pressures and green factors also does occur where GSCM is the mediator.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is an extension of available literature on GSCM practices utilizing the survey data from India. It contributes to the literature on micro, small and medium enterprises and GSCM practices implementation and expands the scope of theoretical applications.Practical implicationsFor the managers, it provides useful insights about innovative practices to become eco-efficient. The second-order of scale reveals that managers need to equally focus on all factors rather than on any single one. Less GSCM practices score indicates the dearth of external and internal pressures on micro, small and medium enterprises. Therefore, managers need to collaborate with local customers, overseas customers, competitors and legislative agencies. Besides, training of employees, literacy of employees and support from top management also emerge as critical measures that help the industry implement GSCM practices.Originality/valueGSCM as a topic had been extensively explored within different business areas and functions in the available literature. However, this study has some significant values. At prima facie, the study is the first that elucidates GSCM practices by incorporating the effects of pressures of different stakeholders in the context of Indian micro, small and medium enterprises which is considered as the most unorganized sector. Second, the proposed model of the study could provide useful direction for GSCM practices implementation in the unorganized sector in developing nations. Third, the study can also benefit academicians interested in the researched topic, organizations within different sectors and any other party interested in understanding more the concept of GSCM.

PurposeThis study aims to empirically test a comprehensive green supply chain management (GSCM) practices model. This paper incorporates green intellectual capital (GIC) and green supply chain orientation (GSCO) as antecedents to the successful implementation of GSCM practices and organizational performance as its consequence.Design/methodology/approachThis study has been conducted in the Indian food processing industry. The respondents of this study include 139 plant-level managers working in the food processing industry. The managers were contacted using a combination of personal visits, phone and mail. Structural equation modeling was performed using SPSS AMOS v26 to test the hypothesized model.FindingsThe findings of this study reveal that GIC and GSCO positively impact the implementation of GSCM practices. Further, GSCM practices improve economic and operational performance, leading to improved organizational performance.Practical implicationsThis study provides implications for managers suggesting that GSCM practices should be implemented in phases. The first phase must reflect the organization's commitment toward building GIC and the second phase must reflect managerial orientation toward implementation for GSCM practices.Originality/valueThis study adds to the existing literature by linking GIC to GSCM practices; second, this study provides a framework for implementation of GSCM practices in the food processing industry.

Article history: Received October 5, 2015 Received in revised format December 16 2015 Accepted February 16 2016 Available online February 16 2016 There is an emergent need for corporates to incorporate environment friendly practices into supply chain management. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices are the processes, which reduce the environment hazards from the supply chain. These practices help industries provide the competitive advantage from their core competitors by reducing environmental hazards. The literature gives an idea about a number of evidences of green supply-chain management practices, which are not developed. The study discusses the rules and the regulations made by the environmental authorities to meet social and environmental concerns to help in both developments of economies as well as business units suffering from insufficient GSCM practices. This research helps academicians, practitioners and researchers in incorporating and understanding GSCM practices in a broad manner. The research on the GSCM practices is at a very nascent stage in Indian manufacturing environment despite the fact that sustainability is the foremost worry of Indian industries. Using the rich literature, an attempt is made to bring out the need for GSCM practices and environmental sustainability of organizations. Finally, the findings and interpretations are summarized, and the main research issues and opportunities are highlighted. Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 6 © 201

Nowadays, green supply chain management (SCM) practices are increasing among firms to adopt green practices and reduce the negative effects of supply chain operations on the environment. Firms such as manufacturing, mining, and agriculture have to improve their capacity in green SCM practices because environmental regulations force them to consider these issues. However, green practices are new and require comprehensive study to determine this problem. This study has taken the case of three garment manufacturing firms for the evaluation of green SCM practices in the context of Pakistan. The green SCM requires multi-dimensional techniques; therefore, fuzzy-based multi-criteria decision analysis approaches must be adopted while assessing green SCM practices of firms. This is because fuzzy-based methods obtain a significant solution for complex, vague, and uncertain multi-attribute problems in fuzzy environment. Therefore, in this study, a hybrid decision model comprised of Delphi, and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodologies is proposed for assessing the green SCM practices of firms in terms of green design, green purchasing, green production, green warehousing, green logistics, and reverse logistics. The Fuzzy AHP method results reveal that “green purchasing,” “green design,” and “green production” are ranked the most important green indicators. Further, results reveal the ranking of manufacturing firms (alternatives) in the context of green SCM practices. This study shall help industries to focus on green SCM practices and adopt the green manufacturing process.

Environmental sustainability and green environmental issues have an increasing popularity among researchers and supply chain practitioners. An attempt has been made to identify and empirically analyze green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in Indian automobile industry. Six main GSCM practices (having 37 sub practices) and four expected performance outcomes (having 16 performances) have been identified by implementing GSCM practices from literature review. Questionnaire based survey has been made to validate these practices and performance outcomes. 123 complete questionnaires were collected from Indian automobile organizations and used for empirical analysis of GSCM practices in Indian automobile industry. Descriptive statistics have been used to know current implementation status of GSCM practices in Indian automobile industry and multiple regression analysis has been carried out to know the impact on expected organizational performance outcomes by current GSCM practices adopted by Indian automobile industry. The results of study suggested that environmental, economic, social and operational performances improve with the implementation of GSCM practices. This paper may play an important role to understand various GSCM implementation issues and help practicing managers to improve their performances in the supply chain.

Green supply chain management (GSCM) practices are cross-organizational and closed-loop. They aim to reduce the ecological impact of the firm’s activity without sacrificing quality, cost, reliability, performance, or energy utilisation efficiency. This study presents empirical evidence to encourage firms to implement GSCM practices, which may enhance their competitive advantages. This study attempts to contribute to the growing research on GSCM practices—namely internal environmental management, green purchasing, eco-design and packaging, investment recovery, and cooperation with customers—and their effects on competitive advantages using a sample of 258 ISO 14001-certified manufacturing firms in Malaysia. A partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis showed the direct effects of green purchasing, eco-design and packaging, investment recovery, and cooperation with customers directly on competitive advantages. However, internal environmental management did not relate to competitive advantages. Suggestions for future research are proposed. The study confirms the positive effects of GSCM practices on the competitive advantages of firms in the Malaysian manufacturing industry.

This paper illustrates the application of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to understand the green supply chain management (GSCM) practices relating to Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME) in India. Path Analysis as a special case of SEM has been used here in seeing that the sample moment matrix of our multivariate data fails to be positive definite. Although the research in the area of GSCM has grown in recent years, the literature has yet to furnish an accepted explanation for why green practices are to be manifested in supply chain management given external and internal pressures. This research intends to study whether the greening scores measure a common construct called GSCM and whether external and internal pressures due to stakeholders have any influence on GSCM practices when differences are controlled for different types of MSME and different nature of industries of MSME in India. This study confirms and validates that the lower level of GSCM involvement of Indian MSME can be attributed to lack of the necessary external and internal pressures.

Globally, pollution has spurred corporate players to use eco-friendly polishes and the textile industry is not an uncommon case. Textile commercial enterprises should adopt the same green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and this research paper seeks to identify the green supply chain management (GSCM) practices embraced by a textile industry in Gazipur District, Dhaka. Essential information was sourced from 200 respondents to support the review. Information was dissected with the assistance of weighted arithmetic mean and chi-square tests and it has been concluded that a huge number of green supply chain management practices are being embraced by the textile industries of Gazipur district.

Firm-level correlates of emergent green supply chain management practices in the Chinese context

Purpose This study establishes a framework of green supply chain management (GSCM) in the construction project context. The purpose is to empirically validate the effect of GSCM practices on environmental and organizational performance from the sustainability perspective and explore the distinct role of contractual and relational governance in promoting GSCM practices. Design/methodology/approach This study used survey data collected from construction companies in China, with a sample of 159 responses participating in the analysis. This study applied a survey method to test the hypothesized relationships. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the hypothesized relationships based on the survey data in Chinese construction industry. Findings The results demonstrate that in construction projects, GSCM practices have a positive effect on both environmental and organizational performance. Contractual governance is not significantly related to GSCM practices, while relational governance positively influences the implementation of GSCM practices. The results further demonstrate the indirect effect of relational governance on the relationship between contractual governance and GSCM practices. Originality/value Theoretically, this study enhances the understanding of GSCM as a holistic method to integrate green practices into construction projects and reveals the distinct role of governance arrangements in greening construction supply chain, which contributes to project sustainability research. Practically, this study provides a systematic GSCM implementation framework and transformation path for the construction industry to achieve both organizational and environmental performance.

For sustainable growth and development, it is time for eco-friendly efforts as well as pursuing economic performance. This study first identified the relationship between green supply chain management practices and environmental performance. In addition, it was of key significance to examine the differences in the influence of green supply chain management practices on environmental performance through moderating variables of institutional pressure.BR The results showed that among the green supply chain management practices, internal environmental management system, investment recovery, and buyer management have a positive impact on environmental performance. Previous studies argued that institutional pressure increases the willingness of companies to implement and improve green supply chain management and affects the efficiency of resources used for environmental management. However, contrary to the arguments suggested in the institutional theory, our study found that the higher the institutional pressure, the weaker the positive influence of green supply chain management practices on environmental performance. In particular, concerning green design, it has been statistically significantly demonstrated that the higher the institutional pressure, the weaker the positive influence of green design on environmental performance.

Green supply chain practices in the plastics industry in Portugal. The moderating effects of traceability, ecocentricity, environmental culture, environmental uncertainty, competitive pressure, and social responsibility

The pharmaceutical industry plays a critical role in providing essential healthcare products to people globally. However, the industry's operations and supply chains have significant environmental impacts, including the consumption of resources, generation of waste, and emission of greenhouse gases. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices on the sustainability of pharmaceutical firms. This was a desk review. It followed a systematic approach, conducting a comprehensive search across academic databases such as Google Scholar, Research Gate, JSTOR, Emerald Insight and ProQuest, including journals and conference proceedings. The paper outlined the findings of past studies done on the relationship between GSCM practices and organizational sustainability especially in pharmaceutical firms. The researcher sourced studies online under the criteria that they focused on GSCM and organizational sustainability and were carried out from the year 2010 to 2023. The findings showed that GSCM has a positive impact on firm sustainability. Additionally, firms that embraced GSCM demonstrated a heightened commitment to employee welfare and community engagement further enhancing social sustainability. The research also highlighted the positive relationship between green procurement and firm performance, particularly in energy consumption reduction and waste management. Green manufacturing practices led to improved environmental performance, emphasizing optimized production processes and reduced hazardous substances. The conclusion was that the adoption of GSCM practices holds immense promise for enhancing the sustainability of pharmaceutical firms. The evidence suggests that proactive integration of GSCM practices leads to significant reductions in resource consumption, lower emissions, and heightened operational efficiency. It was concluded that pharmaceutical firms in Kenya should develop and implement holistic GSCM strategies that encompass eco-friendly sourcing, efficient transportation, waste reduction, and responsible disposal practices to minimize environmental impact. Pharmaceutical firms should also build strong partnerships with suppliers to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices throughout the supply chain, ensuring compliance with environmental standards and driving collective efforts towards sustainability goals.

Environmental issues are most important among the current global concerns, and business activities are seen as a cause of significant threat to the environment due to environmentally non-friendly practices by various industries that cause pollution. However, the implementation of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in developing countries like Pakistan is still inconclusive. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of GSCM dimensions on economic, environmental, and social performance. The five dimensions covered in this research are green purchasing, green manufacturing and remanufacturing, environmental education, internal environmental management, and investment recovery. A survey questionnaire was prepared that consists of green practices as well as a performance indicator. Factor analysis maximum likelihood method was used to examine the survey data of Pakistani organizations. The results of this study indicate that GSCM practices have a positive impact on environmental, economic, and social performance. This research shows organizations are aware of improving their performance while adopting green supply chain practices.