Drivers of the green supply chain initiatives: Evidence from Indonesian automotive industry

Abstract

Global warming, resource depletion, rising temperature, air pollution, and other environmental issues have raised several questions regarding the environmental effects of organizations. Thus, the organizations have started to pay attention on their processes. Bearing in mind the importance of ongoing environmental issues, the present study tries to elaborate the role of key drivers due to which the organizations go for adoption of green initiatives. This study considers the supply chain processes as a point of concern. Competitor pressure, customer pressure, regulatory measures (ISO 140001 etc.) and socio-cultural responsibility are the key drivers. Data are collected from the employees who were working in the automotive industry related companies in Indonesia by adopting the simple random sampling. 300 questionnaires are distributed among the employees out of which 200 valid responses are used for data analysis. Smart-PLS is used for data analysis. As per the results of the study the regulatory measures significantly and positively influence the green supply chain initiatives of the automotive car manufacturers. The results of the study also report a positive significant relationship between competitor pressure and green supply chain initiatives. Green supply chain initiatives are also found to be positively influence by the customer pressure. Finally, the study also reports a positive significant influence of socio-cultural responsibility on the green supply chain initiatives. Socio-cultural responsibility is found to be the strongest predictor of green supply chain initiatives. Practical implications and future directions are also provided at the end of the study.

Loji̇sti̇k İşletmeleri̇ni̇ Yeşi̇l Tedari̇k Zi̇nci̇ri̇ Yöneti̇mi̇ne Yönlendi̇ren Etkenleri̇n Değerlendi̇ri̇lmesi̇

“…Teknolojik gelişmeler (Susanty vd., 2019;Abdullah vd., 2018) her ne kadar yönlendirici etken olarak belirtilmişse de bu durum ya yönetim kararları ile ilgili yönlendirici etkenler aracılığıyla tercihli olarak ya da politika, mevzuat/yasalar ile ilgili yönlendirici etken vesilesi ile zorunluluktan ortaya çıkmaktadır. Ekonomik baskılar (Zhan vd., 2019;Wang vd., 2018;Susanty vd., 2018) ise, temelde ülke politikaları ve müşteriler (Thaib, 2020;Shohan vd., 2019;Zhu ve Zu, 2019;Susanty vd., 2018) gibi yönlendirici etkenlerin etkisi ile ilişkilendirilmektedir. Müşteri taleplerinin yönlendirici etken olarak önemli rol oynayan başlıklardan birisi olarak kabul edilmektedir.…”

“…Ayrıca firmaların konumlandırma stratejileri (Bhool ve Narwal, 2013;Jindal ve Sangwan, 2013;Shaik ve Abdul-Kader, 2014) ve firmanın çevre politikaları da (Zhan vd., 2019;Abdullah vd., 2018) işletmeler için yönlendirici etkenler olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Rekabet ve pazar koşulları (Thaib, 2020;Shohan vd., 2019;Saade vd., 2019) etkin rol oynayan etkenlerden biri olarak ifade edilmekte ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerde uygulamaların ağırlıklı olarak mecburiyet doğuran hukuki çerçeve ve müşteri talepleri ile şekillendiği anlaşılmaktadır.…”

“…Görüşmelerden elde edilen yönlendirici etkenlerden ulusal ve uluslararası politikalar, kurallar ve mevzuatlar/yasalar (Thaib, 2020;Jing vd., 2019, Zhu ve Xu, 2019Susanty vd., 2018;Dhull ve Narwal, 2017) işletmelerin hem mecburi uygulamalarında, hem de gönüllü tercihlerinde rol oynamaktadır. Teknolojik gelişmeler (Susanty vd., 2019;Abdullah vd., 2018) her ne kadar yönlendirici etken olarak belirtilmişse de bu durum ya yönetim kararları ile ilgili yönlendirici etkenler aracılığıyla tercihli olarak ya da politika, mevzuat/yasalar ile ilgili yönlendirici etken vesilesi ile zorunluluktan ortaya çıkmaktadır.…”

Green Drivers and Green Manufacturing Practices Integration in Agro Processing Industry: Moderating Effect of Sustainability Orientation

“…From the context of institutional theory, the compulsion from regulations on firms to be environmentally responsible is referred to as coercive isomorphism aimed at making a firm engage in green initiatives. According to Thaib (2020), for a firm to adopt and integrate environmental management initiatives, such as eco-design, reverse logistics and others, it requires some amount of coercive pressure. In the opinion of Wang et al (2019), the extent to which regulations are enforced in industrialized nations erupt some level of institutional pressure for enterprises in developing countries towards improving their responsible practices towards the environment.…”

The Implementation of Sustainable Manufacturing Practice in Textile Industry: An Indonesian Perspective

“…Researches about the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practices in the textile industry in Indonesia is still limited since most of researchers were more focused on other sectors, like on the SMEs sector (Fatimah et al, 2013) or they have just described the general view of sustainable manufacturing concept in the Indonesian manufacturing sector (Hanafi, 2016). In addition, most of the studies conducted in Indonesia were also more focused in specific contexts like green supply chain practices (Ariyanti, 2018;Djunaidi et al, 2018;Roespinoedji et al, 2019;Thaib, 2020). Meanwhile, in this study, researchers have tried to give a wider analysis about the implementation of sustainable practices, not only in a green (environment) context, but also in an economic and social context by dividing the parameters into those three parts (Nurlanova, et al, 2020).…”