scholarly journals Developing Integrated Green Supply Chain Drivers and Barriers Framework for Green Supply Chain Adoption, MENA Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany Hanna ◽  
Paul Xirouchakis ◽  
Athanasios Rentizelas
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Environmental Practice ◽  
Innovation Practices

Recently, corporate environmental practice such as Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and green innovation appears as a novel organized environmental practice for manufacturing companies to handle the increasing environmental issues. The aim of this paper is to assess the level of adoption of GSCM and green practices through proposing framework. A total of 123 responses from industrial sector of the Middle East companies were collected from mail questionnaire. The results showed industrial sector of the Middle East manufacturing companies are in trial adoption stage for both GSCM practices. Internal environmental management practice of GSCM practices are relatively high adopted in industrial sector. Meanwhile, most of all green innovation practices are heavily implemented in MENA region companies. This paper empirically attempts to provide understanding and new insights for sustainability management area where GSCM and green innovation practices are important to improve organizational environmental performance, which can directly offer great benefits for both researchers and practitioners.

scholarly journals Green Innovation Strategy and Ambidextrous Green Innovation: The Mediating Effects of Green Supply Chain Integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4876
Author(s):  
Yongbo Sun ◽  
Hui Sun
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Although the importance of green innovation strategy has been recognized, in the existing literature the relationship between green innovation strategy and corporate competitive advantage, as well as the relationship between green innovation strategy and green innovation are still unclear. Based on the resource dependence theory, this paper proposes a mediation model to promote ambidextrous green innovation. The relationship between green innovation strategy and ambidextrous green innovation is discussed, and the mediating role of green supply chain integration is investigated. Based on the questionnaire data from manufacturing companies in three developed economic zones in China, a structural equation model is established to verify our hypotheses. The empirical results show that the green innovation strategy has a positive impact on both exploitative and exploratory green innovation, and the impact on exploratory green innovation is greater than that on exploitative green innovation. Green supply chain integration plays a partial intermediating role in green innovation strategy and ambidextrous green innovation. The implementation of green innovation requires not only internal cross-department integration, but also integration with external supply chain partners such as suppliers and customers. By emphasizing the importance of green innovation strategy in the context of sustainable development, this research helps provide effective strategic directions and required capacity structures for companies to successfully implement green innovation practices, and reduces the uncertainty of green innovation. This study expands previous studies and enriches existing green innovation research.

The Drivers, Practices and Outcomes of Green Supply Chain Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.S. Savita ◽  
P.D.D. Dominic ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Chain Management

The global shift in ecological movement has significant impacts on business operation of manufacturing firms that are located in developing countries. The intense pressure of being environmentally sustainable has caused Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM) concept to emerge as an important corporate environmental strategy for manufacturing companies. Information technologies and systems have permeated in most business activities, in which, they extend important opportunities to resolve environmental issues. However, many researchers, including manufacturers and government bodies often disregard the green concept of information technologies and systems in minimizing environmental issues. A comprehensive review on Green SCM, Green IT and Green IS for sustainable environmental performance in manufacturing companies is presented using Input-Process-Output (IPO) Theory and Technological-Organizational-Environmental (TOE) theory. In bridging the research gap, a model is constructed to link the aforementioned constructs. Next, the paper reports on the development of survey questionnaire using cognitive interviewing strategies, followed up with semi-structured interview to investigate and obtain preliminary findings on the influential factors, green activities and performance outcomes from implementing Green SCM. Lastly, the finalized survey questionnaire was distributed to 60 ISO14001 certified manufacturing companies located in the region of Perak and Kulim. Out of 60 manufacturing companies, only 32 responses received as the dataset in analyzing for improvements in reliability, measurement error, and validity of measured items. The findings from this pilot study explain that internal and external factors have stronger influence over the implementation of green initiatives in supply chain with substantial outcome on environmental performance. The information technologies and systems being the physical resource, capability and backbone to run a business seamlessly are significantly recognized. But, the green component of IT and IS were poorly attended and disregarded to an extent in the process of greening the processes, operations or entire business. Therefore, further investigations are required in the main study to validate the findings obtained here and other possible association between the factors, practices and outcomes in realizing ecological improvements in the supply chain and firm itself.

scholarly journals The role of green supply chain management practices on environmental performance in the hydrocarbon industry of Bahrain: Testing the moderation of green innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Darwish ◽  
Syed Mir Muhammad Shah ◽  
Umair Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Recently, environmental degradation has become a global issue, and a green supply chain has been considered as the appropriate solution for it. Also, this issue gets the intentions of recent researchers. Thus, the current article aims to examine the impact of green supply chain practices such as green purchase, internal environmental management, and customer environmental cooperation on environment performance in Bahrain. The goal also includes examining the moderating role of green innovation among the nexus of green purchase, internal environmental management, customer environmental cooperation, and environmental performance in Bahrain. The primary data collection method has been executed by the study and collected data by using questionnaires. The employees of the supply chain department of the hydrocarbon industry in Bahrain are the respondents. The statistical results show that green purchase, internal environmental management and customer environmental cooperation have positive relationships with environmental performance. The outcomes also exposed that green innovation has played an influential moderating role among the nexus of green purchase, internal environmental management, customer environmental cooperation, and environmental performance in Bahrain. These findings provide guidelines to the regulators that they should develop effective policies related to the implementation of supply chain practices that improve environmental performance.

Performance of Green Supply Chain in Manufacturing Industry - The Case of a PCB Manufacturer

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 4803-4806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo Hua Lin ◽  
Yong Qiang Zhang ◽  
Sang Bing Tsai ◽  
Shen Shi Wen ◽  
Cheng Kuang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Supplier Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Management Mechanism

Green Supply Chain (GSC) requires suppliers to give integrated consideration to their products and the environment-related management practice. The principle of environmental protection shall be incorporated in the supplier management mechanism, with the objective of embodying environmental protection concept in the products, and hence promoting market competiveness. This is a case study on the PCB industry, and the performance of green competitiveness of the company in case was evaluated with the IPA approach. The result then served as the basis for the company’s improvement.

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