دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدیریت زنجیره تامین سبز و عملکرد صادراتی: نقش واسطه گر عملکرد محیطی - امرالد 2018

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of green supply chain management (GSCM) on environmental performance (EP) and export performance in the context of a developing country, Jordan. In addition, the mediating effect of EP on the relationship between GSCM and export performance is investigated. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on survey data collected from 221 manufacturing companies in Jordan. The companies were selected from different industry types to ensure diversity. Validity and reliability analyses were performed using SPSS and Amos, and structural equation modeling was used to test the study hypotheses. Findings – The results revealed that GSCM positively and significantly affects both EP and export performance. In addition, the results demonstrated that EP positively and significantly affects export performance. Further, it is also found that EP positively and significantly mediates the relationship between GSCM and export performance. Originality/value – The current study is one of the first to investigate the impact of GSCM on export performance, especially in the context of a developing country. In addition, this study contributes to the existing literature by highlighting the mediating effect of EP on GSCM—export performance relationship. GSCM is an under-investigated area in Jordan. The results are expected to promote GSCM implementation among manufacturing companies in Jordan in order to achieve economic benefits by increasing their exports through improvements in EP.

6.4 Conclusion and limitations

The study concludes that GSCM is an essential enabler of EP in Jordanian manufacturing companies. Additionally, the results demonstrate the important effect of GSCM on export performance. Moreover, this study contributes to the understanding of the importance of an improved EP in helping Jordanian manufacturing companies enhance their export performance. Furthermore, the findings showed that EP mediates the GSCM—export performance relationship in a positive and significant way. This study provides a better understanding of the impact of GSCM on two critical performance dimensions, environmental and export performance, and provides new insights into the theoretical and practical implications of GSCM in the manufacturing sector. Limitations of this study must be recognized. The main limitation of this study is applying the convenience sampling method. Although this method is widely applied in business studies, it may have resulted is some bias and affected the generalizability of the results. Second, the data were collected from a single respondent in each company. Although this method is also widely used in operations and SCM studies, future studies could collect data from multiple respondents in each company to improve the generalizability of the results. Third, the data were collected from different industry types in Jordan due to the small number of companies belonging to one industry type. Future research could focus on one industry type to provide more specific results and implications. Lastly, the current study used four GSCM practices. Future studies could extend to GSCM practices that were not considered in this research such as reverse logistics.