Green Supply Chain Management Efforts of First-Tier Suppliers on Economic and Business Performances in the Electronics Industry

So Ra Park,Hong-Hee Lee,Sung Tae Kim

doi:10.3390/su14031836

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Green supply chain management (GSCM) has a necessary goal of performing a firm’s social and environmental responsibilities, and SMEs employ GSCM practices with constrained resources. SMEs need to determine which areas they need to concentrate their limited resources to result in positively noticeable economic outcomes. This study aims to identify what GSCM practices would influence economic and business profitability for first-tier suppliers in the electronics industry. Specifically, this examines whether internal environmental management (IEM), green purchasing (GP), cooperation with customers (CC), and eco-design (ECO) have a role in enhancing an organization’s economic performance (ECP) and business performance (BP). Survey data from 193 South Korean electronics firms were collected to test the proposed model. The survey responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the present study showed that IEM, CC, and ECO of the responding SMEs had direct positive influences on ECP. Moreover, economic performance has a statistically significant influence on BP. However, GP did not show a significant relationship with ECP. This study investigated first-tier suppliers within the electronics industry and identified what GSCM practices would be important in improving the performances of SME manufacturing companies.

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Green supply chain management (GSCM) has a necessary goal of performing a firm’s social and environmental responsibilities, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ GSCM practices with constrained resources
In terms of internal environmental management, both the top management teams and middle managers of the Korean SMEs have a solid commitment to GSCM (IEM4: average = 4.44; IEM5: average = 4.55)
Our survey responses show that the average of all items for cooperation with customers is high

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Green supply chain management (GSCM) has a necessary goal of performing a firm’s social and environmental responsibilities, and SMEs employ GSCM practices with constrained resources. This study aims to identify what GSCM practices would influence economic and business profitability for first-tier suppliers in the electronics industry. This examines whether internal environmental management (IEM), green purchasing (GP), cooperation with customers (CC), and eco-design (ECO) have a role in enhancing an organization’s economic performance (ECP) and business performance (BP). This study investigated first-tier suppliers within the electronics industry and identified what GSCM practices would be important in improving the performances of SME manufacturing companies. Eco-friendly corporate practices are being adopted in managing the supply chain, and governments are instituting various regulations to curb activities harmful to the environment [2,3]

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