Linking low-carbon practices with ESG performances: Exploration evidence from the configurational perspective

Huang, Ruogu; Zhu, Zuping; Ruan, Rongbin; Lou, Xiaoting

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140532

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“…Customers' and suppliers' environmental efforts. We measure customers' disclosed environmental efforts (E C ) and suppliers' disclosed environmental efforts (E S ) with the SNSI environmental ratings based on firms' ESG annual reports, which is a well-accepted dataset and has been largely used in the literature (Huang et al, 2024;Li et al, 2023). SNSI is a primary database and builds its ESG rating system based on the primary international standards on ESG disclosure such as MSCI ESG ratings and combines Chinese features of ESG such as rural revitalization.…”

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How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability

Feng,

Zhu

2024

IJOPM

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PurposeThe growing attention to green supply chain transparency prompts firms to disclose their environmental efforts and manage environmental issues along supply chains. Drawn upon diffusion theory, this study aims to investigate how customers’ environmental efforts can be diffused to suppliers for similar actions, as well as how customers’ (diffusors’) characteristics and suppliers’ (followers’) capability in digital technology application moderate the relationship.Design/methodology/approachThis study collects secondary data of 1,514 unique customer-supplier dyad year observations of Chinese listed firms and their disclosed environmental efforts from 2009 to 2022. A fixed-effect regression model is used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThis study reveals a positive association between customers’ disclosed environmental efforts and those of their suppliers. Furthermore, the relationship is strengthened when customers are state-owned or when suppliers possess higher levels of digital technology application capability. These findings remain robust when alternative measures of variables are employed.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the supply chain transparency literature by uncovering the diffusion mechanism of environmental efforts from customers to their suppliers. It further identifies moderators for this diffusion, including customers’ (diffusors’) ownership and suppliers’ (followers’) capability. Lastly, our study extends the applicability of diffusion theory within a buyer–supplier context.

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