دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدیریت زنجیره تامین سبز در خرده فروشی مواد غذایی - نشریه امرالد

Abstract

Purpose – Green supply chain management (GSCM) research is so far dominated by studies focusing on manufacturing companies, while research on retailers is missing. The purpose of this study is to assess the interaction between green in-store activities (environment-related infrastructure and retail in-store processes), GSCM and environmental and economic performance outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on empirical evidence gathered from 190 responses by Croatian food retailers to a selfadministered survey. The identified relationships in the conceptual model are tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Findings – The results reveal a positive relation between green in-store activities and GSCM in food retailing regarding environmental and economic performance. The relevance of these relationships accrues from the positive association between GSCM and food retailers’ environmental performance, which in turn drives economic performance. It is noteworthy that green supply chain practices drive environmental and then also economic performance. Research limitations/implications – The study extends the application of GSCM to retailing and, therefore, broadens its scope. However, the data collected are based on one country and, thus, should be extended to assess the impact of green retailing practices in the supply chain on environmental and economic performance in other countries. Originality/value – This study, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, is the first empirical analysis on the relationship between green in-store activities and GSCM in the context of food retail. This important link to customers has rarely been explored. Further, the representative sample of food retailers in Croatia is unique as generally data from Central and Eastern European countries are still rare. Finally, the operationalization of GSCM practices into three constructs as green logistics, green purchasing and cooperation with suppliers’ offers conceptual contributions to the GSCM field.

7. Conclusions

Retailers, especially food retailers, operate one of the most complex SCs. Yet, GSCM research tends to focus on the perspectives of manufacturing companies or secondary data analysis of, for example, green activities that retailers publish on their corporate web pages or in CSR reports. The relationship between internal and external greening of the SC has not been conceptualized or empirically tested in the food retail setting. Therefore, this study aimed to empirically analyze the relationship between green in-store practices, GSCM practices and environmental and economic performance in the food retail industry. To do so, structural equation modeling, was applied, assessing the links among green in-store practices, GSCM practice and SC performance in the food retail context. Given the lack of studies on relationships between greening instore activities, GSCM practices and overall performance of the food retail SC, this study empirically contributes to the growing discussion on retail sustainability issues from the narrow focus of retailers as focal companies in SCM. This provides the answer to our research question. Green in-store processes serve as antecedents for GSCM-related processes, which are operationalized in the constructs of green logistics, green purchasing and collaboration with suppliers. These constructs drive respective environmental and then also economic outcomes. This opens up further questions on how related resources and capabilities would have be developed in retailing so to further drive GSCM in such service contexts.