A Structural Model for Green Supply Chain Management relating the Antecedents of Green Supply Chain Management to its Adoption Practices

Abstract

Organizations started realizing the importance of green supply chain management (GSCM) for competitive advantages and sustainable environments. This paper is proposing a structural model relating the antecedents of GSCM to the adoption practices and implementations of GSCM. It starts by identifying an important set of GSCM antecedents and another set of implementation types and adoption practices and defining an initial structural model. Then a rigorous statistical analysis study is performed on data set collected from Egyptian electrical and electronic sector using two statistical models. The first model is called measurement model containing the descriptive statistics of all variables under study, and factor analysis to reduce this large number of variables. The second model is called structural model since it shows the structural relationship between the GSCM antecedents as independent variables and the GSCM implementation types as dependent variables. This structural model is based statistically on both univariate model and multivariate model. As a result of this detailed study some hypotheses are supported, and others are not supported (rejected) and this leads to a final structural model for green supply chain management.