دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی رابطه مدیریت زنجیره تامین سبز و عملکرد: شواهد تجربی در اقتصاد نوظهور آسیایی - الزویر 2017

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and firm performance in the manufacturing sector in Asian emerging economies (AEE) based on empirical evidence. Through a systematic literature review, we identified 50 articles that surveyed 11,127 manufacturing companies in the AEE and were published between 1996 and 2015. Subsequently, a conceptual framework was developed and analyzed through a meta-analysis of 130 effects from 25,680 effect sizes. The findings revealed that the GSCM practices lead to better performance in four aspects: economic, environmental, operational, and social performance. Moreover, the results indicate that industry type, firm size, ISO certification, and export orientation moderate several of the GSCM practice-performance relationships. Moreover, the findings of this research help managers and policy makers to have more confidence in the adoption of GSCM practices to improve firm performance. Such results also help researchers to better channel their efforts in studying the GSCM practices in Asian emerging economies. In addition, as meta-analysis has not been widely used in the supply chain management literature, our study is an important step in maturing the academic field by adopting this technique for confirming GSCM practice-performance relationships in the manufacturing sector of Asian emerging economies.

5 Implications and Conclusions

Our meta-analysis study of the extant literature on the GSCM focuses on the manufacturing sector in the AEE. The meta-analysis revealed several relationships between GSCM practices and performance. Through a systematic literature review, we identified and analyzed 50 articles with 130 effects that involved a total of 11,127 manufacturing companies in the AEE. Subsequently, we developed a conceptual framework consisting of five major relationships in the GSCM practices and performance. The results of our meta-analysis indicate that the GSCM practices lead to better performance in three aspects: economic, environmental, and operational. More specifically, the GSCM practice–performance relationship is the strongest for economic performance, which is followed by operational and environmental performance, respectively. Surprisingly, the GSCM practices did not have any significant impact on the social performance. Moreover, the results also indicate that several GSCM practiceperformance relationships are moderated. This is an important finding for several reasons. Firstly, our meta-analysis implies that the adoption of GSCM practices contributed to firm performance, but at different levels. Secondly, this finding also instills more confidence in the adoption of GSCM practices as a profitable environmental strategy that can be used to reduce environmental impact while increasing the economic performance. In this regard, as the competition in manufacturing industry becomes more between supply chains and less among individual firms, Peng and Lin (2008) stated that the adoption of GSCM practices is becoming an important and valuable strategy to reduce costs whilst satisfying different stakeholders’ requirements. Our meta-analysis indicated that the adoption of GSCM practices is becoming more significant in contributing to firm performance as the supply chains become more complex. As for the globalization, the adoption of GSCM practices will play a larger role in manufacturing companies in the AEE not only in reducing environmental impact but also in contributing to the firm performance.