The Impact of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Performance: Moderating Role of Institutional Pressure with Mediating Effect of Green Innovation

Abstract

Green supply chain management (GSCM), a cross-disciplinary field has grown during recent years with increasing interest from both academia and industry. GSCM considers emphasizing environmental issues in Traditional Supply Chain Management (TSCM). Due to the new trends in global warming, environmental sustainability has become a greater concern among the organizations and enterprises globally. This study will focus on green supply chain management practices in the presence of green innovation. Green innovation will improve organizational processes as well as products, which lead to economic and environmental performance. Different institutional actors are putting pressures to implement Green supply chain management practices. Population of this study is electronics industry in Pakistan. Sample size is 500 with cluster sampling technique. Data has been collected through a survey method based on the adopted questionnaire. The collected data will be tested through Cronbach Alpha, Descriptive Statistics, Pearson Correlation, Linear Regression, Moderated Regression, Multiple Logistic Regression and Hayes’s statistical tests to analyse the suggested research model. This study will enable organizations to implement green supply chain management practices to bear institutional pressure and move towards green innovation to enhance their economic and environmental performance that were never possible before this study.

Examining the impact of institutional pressures and green supply chain management practices on firm performance

“…Manufacturing firms in developing countries are also concerned with improving the reputation of their companies by adopting an environmentally friendly image for attracting foreign customers. However, in Pakistan, the green SC practices are not whole-heartedly welcomed because of insufficient resources and applications of rules and regulations in respect of environmental interest (Shafique et al, 2017). Therefore, the pressure of stakeholders is the driving force for adapting green practices than the self-motivational factor.…”

“…There is an inadequacy of investigation in developing countries that have been found to have a significant influence on economic performance after the adoption of GSCM (Teixeira et al, 2016;Geng et al, 2017). Many pieces of research have examined the scenario of developed countries, but these research works are needed to be done more frequently in developing countries (Shafique et al, 2017). Several research works in this area try to identify the relation between green SC management and company efficiency and have found the diverse, conflicting and confusing conclusions (Chavez et al, 2016;Geng et al, 2017;Wong et al, 2018;Zhu et al, 2013).…”

Assessment of Sustainable Socioeconomic Development in European Union Countries

“…For instance, Liu, Zhang, and Zhang (2019) [2] claim that there is a relationship between socioeconomic development and industrial and domestic water pollution, i.e., the availability of clean water is crucial [3]. There are also scholars analysing sustainable development from an organisational perspective [4,5].…”

Eco-Innovation as a Pillar for Sustainable Development of Circular Economy

“…Also, a vital resource is an energy, which demand is growing rapidly, cannot be wasted -it should be converted or dissipated (Tseng et al, 2018). Moreover, green innovation can improve organizational processes as well as products, which lead to economic and environmental performance (Shafique et al, 2017) and provide the economic and environmental benefits from which businesses can profit following the introduction of eco-innovations (Hroncova Vicianova et al, 2017). Overall, non-recyclable waste should be a rare issue and should appear only if this is under the law of nature.…”