دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی شیوه های مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار، قابلیت های دینامیکی زنجیره تامین و عملکرد سازمانی - الزویر 2018

Abstract:

The combination of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and dynamic capabilities theory is a fairly young topic, which has attracted great attention from scholars and practitioners recently. This study empirically investigates the impact of SSCM practices on supply chain (SC) dynamic capabilities and enterprise performance (including economic, environmental and social performance) by explicitly focusing on the mediation effect of SC dynamic capabilities on the link between SSCM practices and enterprise performance. Data collected from 209 Chinese manufacturing firms were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results reveal that SSCM practices have a significant positive effect on SC dynamic capabilities and all three dimensions of performances. Whereas SC dynamic capabilities affect only environmental performance positively, they have no effect on economic performance and social performance. Furthermore our analysis reveals that SC dynamic capabilities partially mediate the relationship between SSCM practices and enterprise performance. Overall, the findings explicate the importance for firms, in particular those operating in developing countries, to reinforce their SC dynamic capabilities and implement effective SSCM practices as an enabler.

6 Conclusions

6.1 Theoretical contributions

The theoretical contributions of this paper are two-fold. First, through the literature review on SSCM, it is found that the theories used by existing SSCM research are not sufficiently solid. (Hoejmose and Adrien-Kirby, 2012; Touboulic and Walker, 2015). In view of the coupling of SSCM and dynamic capabilities theory (Beske et al., 2012; 2014), SC dynamic capability is introduced into the framework of the relationship between SSCM practices and enterprise performance. The combination of the two enriches and deepens the theoretical connotation of each other. Second, in spite of the increasing research on SSCM, there is a paucity of empirical evidence and theoretical reflection on sustainable supply chains in developing and emerging economies (Silvestre, 2015; Esfahbodi et al., 2016). This study is a first attempt to investigate SSCM practices in developing countries. It provides empirical evidence for improving SSCM performance in developing countries. This fills an important research gap as existing research so far has focused on developed countries.