Suppliers' communication capability and external green integration for green and financial performance in Korean construction industry

Environmental Capabilities of Suppliers for Green Supply Chain Management in Construction Projects: A Case Study in Korea

“…In other words, the absence of objective standards hinders supply chain partners from sharing understandings of the suppliers' capabilities. Furthermore, complex and numerous interactions between suppliers and contractor in a supply chain can be one of the challenges to aligning contractor's and suppliers' knowledge about supplier's environmental capabilities [9,21]. Figure 2 shows the differences in contractor and supplier evaluation of internal and external environmental management capabilities.…”

“…Vachon and Klassen [21] reports the result of a survey conducted with North American manufacturers in the package printing industry, which shows that collaborative green practices of the supply chain, such as joint environmental goal/plan setting and joint efforts for reducing pollution, have positive impacts on manufacturing performance. Woo et al [9] show that collaborations between supply chain members for GSCM have a positive relationship with the members' environmental performances, as well as the financial performances in the construction sector. Meanwhile, other researchers have studied the indicators of GSCM in the construction industry.…”

“…This is why firms should form a supply chain consisting of competitive and reliable suppliers [27]. As the environmental impact directly linked to the economic burden of disposal cost is a critical dimension of GSCM performance in the construction industry, suppliers' capabilities pertaining to environmental management are key elements for successful implementation of GSCM in this industry [9].…”

“…To gain a competitive advantage through GSCM in the construction industry, first of all, the contractor's selection of its suppliers should be based on an accurate assessment of the suppliers' capabilities, especially related to environmental capabilities. According to a recent study of Woo et al [9], a contractor's exact assessment of the suppliers' environmental capabilities contributes to the corporate competitiveness of the suppliers in the construction sector.…”

Decoding Human Intervention: Pathways to Successful Environmental Management

“…The need to motivate employees to participate in environmental initiatives has long been identified (Fudge and Carter, ). At present, the literature has identified some soft key success factors (KSFs) such as employee involvement and awareness (Chinander, ; Guerci et al, ), training (Sarkis et al, ; Daily et al, ), communication (Woo et al, ) supervisory and management support (Daily and Huang, ; Cantor et al, ), employee responsibility (Ramus and Steger, ) and rewards and recognition (Rothenberg, ; Cantor et al, ). It is also thought that supervisory moral value (Jiang et al, ) and leadership corporate value (Bansal and Roth, ) are the main stimuli for the above KSFs.…”