Abstract
Suppliers have important influence to the enterprise in terms of product and service cost, quality and delivery. Enterprises need to implement supplier development to improve suppliers’ supply capabilities, and promote partnership with suppliers, so as to achieve the improvement of business efficiency. This paper defines green supplier development, divides them into direct green supplier development and indirect green supplier development, and puts forward the research hypothesis of the relationship between green supplier development and supplier relationship and firm performance. Then, using the method of questionnaire survey to collect data, according to the statistical analysis of the 259 questionnaires, the results show that the first, direct green supplier development has positive influence on the economic performance and environmental performance, but the influence of indirect green supplier development on the economic performance of enterprises is not significant. Second, supplier partnership plays a role in the influence of green supplier development on the economic performance and environmental performance.
Highlights
With the increasing competition of enterprises and the increasingly complex market environment, no supplier can have all the resources and ability to meet the requirements of the enterprise for a long time, but it will cost a lot of conversion costs to re-evaluate the selection of new suppliers
This study focuses on the role of green supplier development on the economic performance and environmental performance, and combined with the previous analysis, the author thinks that the green supplier development affect the performance by influencing the relationship with the suppliers
This study discusses the impact of green supplier development on firm economic performance and environmental performance, and studies the mediating role of supplier partnership in the relationship between green supplier development and firm performance
Summary
With the increasing competition of enterprises and the increasingly complex market environment, no supplier can have all the resources and ability to meet the requirements of the enterprise for a long time, but it will cost a lot of conversion costs to re-evaluate the selection of new suppliers. If enterprises want to achieve the growth of core competitiveness, they have to develop sup-. Supplier development has become a key problem of supply chain management. With the rise of the concept of sustainable development, supplier development plays an indispensable role in green supply chain management. The research on supplier development in the past was mainly from the economic point of view, only few studies considered environmental factors. The relationship between the supplier development and the firm performance is limited to the exploration of the relationship between the supplier development and the enterprise’s economic benefit, and lacks the empirical research on the supplier development and the environmental performance
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