The Influence of Green Supply Chain on Environment Performance of Government Organization in Turkey: Mediating Role of Organizational Support

Suhaib Aamir,Faseeh Ur Raheem

doi:10.52131/jom.2019.0102.0006

Abstract

The environmental issues are growing over time, and green supply chain is considered as the essential element to improve the environment around the globe and attain the focus of recent researchers. Thus, the current study purpose is to examine the influence of green supply chain dimensions such as eco-design, green purchasing and internal environmental management on the environmental performance of government organization in Turkey. The goals also include the examination of the mediating role of organizational support among the nexus of eco-design, green purchasing, internal environmental management and environmental performance of government organization in Turkey. The data were gathered with the help of survey questionnaires from the supply chain activities related employees of government organizations, while AMOS has been employed for analysis purpose. The results revealed that green supply chain dimensions such as eco-design, green purchasing and internal environmental management have a positive association with the environmental performance of government organization in Turkey. The results also exposed that organizational support positively mediates among the nexus of green supply chain dimensions such as eco-design, green purchasing and internal environmental management and environmental performance of government organization in Turkey. These findings are suitable for the new researchers who want to examine this area in future along with the regulators who want to develop the policies related to the environmental performance that could enhance the economic growth around the globe.

Highlights

There is rising concern about the environmental effects of industrial organizations, which has created a strong demand for the implementation of practices that may fulfil the social, economic, and environmental needs at the same time
The results revealed that green supply chain dimensions such as eco-design, green purchasing and internal environmental management have a positive association with the environmental performance of government organization in Turkey and accept H1, H2 and H3
In the conclusion of the current study, we can say that eco-design has a positive relationship with environmental performance as it meets several environmental aspects

Summary

Introduction

There is rising concern about the environmental effects of industrial organizations, which has created a strong demand for the implementation of practices that may fulfil the social, economic, and environmental needs at the same time. This difficulty may be overcome by bringing some necessary changes to the strategies, policies, operational, production, and marketing iRASD Journal of Management 1(2), 2019 procedures that do not affect the economic goals and helpful in showing the superior social and environmental performance (Sarkis, 2003) In this regard, the implementation and execution of the practices of green supply chain management prove to be beneficial to organizations as they enable the firm to satisfy the society, general, and government regulators about environmental concerns and thereby bring improvement in the economic performance. The paper examines that organizational support is a suitable mediator between green supply chain practices like eco-design, IE management, and green and environment performance of individual firms and the overall chain (Seman et al, 2019)

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