Culture and green supply chain management (GSCM)

Abstract

PurposeThis paper seeks to explore, summarize, and interpret the existing literature linking green supply chain management (GSCM) to culture. To achieve this goal, three main questions are answered: (1) How culture has been linked to GSCM in prior works? (2) What are the general problems exposed? (3) What gaps to detect?Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review related to culture–GSCM was conducted. The review combines descriptive and content analysis of 46 academic peer-reviewed English papers from 30 international journals.FindingsAround 90 percent of the articles are empirical papers, only 10 percent are conceptual papers. These papers systematically focused on two issues: the largest number deal with the organizational culture–environmental practices, then national culture–environmental practices. The GSCM–culture relationship underlines contrast findings stemmed from various factors, levels of analysis, different sample, research design, contexts, and so on. Among the results, a conceptual model is developed, allowing suggestions for future research.Research limitations/implicationsThis review is limited by the environmental practices of SCM raised in the literature, excluding corporate responsibility or ethics researches. This study may not be exhaustive and expose all papers in the field, but it does definitively assess a wider number of papers available and to which access is provided. Future researchers empirically test the conceptual model proposed toward more clarifications.Practical implicationsThis paper provides managers with an extra element to take into consideration while accustoming with GSCM, which is better understanding the role and the sensitivity of cultural values in order to harmonize with the changes.Originality/valueThis paper had extended the prior reviews to add recent and new papers. It does not only update the understanding related to culture–GSCM but goes beyond that to propose a multidisciplinary model theorizing the existing links and calling for ultimate investigations for the detected gaps.

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“…Srivastava Anugamini and Shree (2019) stated that employees' lack of concern about organizational greening can harm organizational corporate social responsibility. SC managers strategize and integrate major operations of their organization which not only require fulfilling mandatory operational regulations but also voluntary environmental engagement (Elbaz and Iddik, 2020). Managers working in the manufacturing industry of developing countries also face barriers on a personal level, in addition to the organizational barriers (Cleveland et al, 2020;Wesselink et al, 2017).…”

“…Cleveland et al (2020) stated that to study an individual's behavior at the workplace, subjective norms must be taken into account. Moreover, Elbaz and Iddik (2020) suggest that the link between several organizational cultural factors like norms, values and employees' tendency toward organizational greening should be further analyzed because external factors (colleagues, supervisors) are responsible for a deeper influence in motivating behavior as compared to the internal factors. Previous empirical research also shows a positive relationship between social norms and PEB intentions (Blok et al, 2015;Swaim et al, 2016).…”

“…Previous research on the application of TPB has shown several inconsistencies in results (Cleveland et al, 2020;Ojedokun, 2018;Yuriev et al, 2018). Researchers have pointed out the differences in national (Ojedokun, 2018) and organizational culture (Elbaz and Iddik, 2020) as major reasons for this variation in results. For example, Elbaz and Iddik (2020) suggested that factors like norms and values play a crucial role in shaping employees' tendency toward green behaviors.…”

“…Researchers have pointed out the differences in national (Ojedokun, 2018) and organizational culture (Elbaz and Iddik, 2020) as major reasons for this variation in results. For example, Elbaz and Iddik (2020) suggested that factors like norms and values play a crucial role in shaping employees' tendency toward green behaviors. These factors vary in different contexts and studying their link in different cultures might generate different results (Francoeur et al, 2019;Ojedokun, 2018).…”

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