Green Collaboration Research Articles

The Influence of the Convergence of Digital and Green Technologies on Regional Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

This paper explores the development of digital and green collaboration, empirically examining both the linear and nonlinear impacts of the convergence of digital and green technologies on regional total factor productivity (TFP). Using data from 30 provinces and cities in China from 2010 to 2022, the study constructs a panel threshold model with business environment and intellectual property protection as threshold variables to investigate their roles in mediating the effects of digital–green technology convergence on regional TFP. The key findings are as follows: (1) The linear analysis reveals that the convergence of digital and green technologies significantly enhances regional TFP. (2) The nonlinear analysis demonstrates a nonlinear relationship between the convergence of these technologies and regional TFP. (3) The threshold effect test identifies a single-threshold effect for the business environment, showing that once the threshold is surpassed, the positive influence of the convergence of digital and green technologies on TFP increases. Additionally, a double-threshold effect is found with intellectual property protection; as intellectual property protection surpasses the first and second thresholds, the positive impact initially strengthens but then weakens. (4) A heterogeneity analysis shows that the convergence of digital and green technologies significantly contributes to TFP in the eastern regions, while the effects in central and western regions are not significant.

Measurement of new qualitative productivity kinetic energy from the perspective of digital and green collaboration--comparative study based on European countries

At present, the world is witnessing the historic convergence of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change with the transformation of the development mode, and it is strategically important and far-reaching to rapidly enhance new qualitative productivity kinetic energy (NQPKE) on the basis of the lessons learning from the experience of the pioneering countries for all countries, so as to expand the room for manoeuvre of the economic development, obtain the initiative of international competition, and realise the benign interaction of high-quality development and high-level of security. On the basis of analysing the formation mechanism of NQPKE, we characterize NQPKE by the coupling and coordination degree of digital productivity and green productivity, we analyse NQPKE by using the entropy weight TOPSIS method and the coupling and synergistic model, and analyse the spatial-temporal characteristics, steady state development and constraints of NQPKE by using the method of kernel density estimation, the Markov chain, the spatial Markov chain, and the obstacle degree model based on data from 21 European countries from 2009 to 2022. The study finds that: (1) The NQPKE shows a wave-like development trend, and the polarization or multi-polarization state of the whole and the four major regions has been slowly weakened, with a certain degree of "club convergence" and "spatial spillover"; (2) The overall situation of barriers to NQPKE is relatively stable, the insufficient investment in scientific and technological development and weak technological innovation capacity are the most critical factors constraining the NQPKE in various countries. Based on the above conclusions, the article proposes to hold high the banner of peaceful development and win-win cooperation, give full play to the "club convergence" and "spatial spillover" effects of NQPKE, accelerate the development of NQPKE adapt to local conditions, and the "digital + green" double base will stimulate technological innovation, and the construction of a digital and green synergistic management system stimulates the potential of the new quality productivity of enterprises, ultimately unleash the surging kinetic energy of new quality productivity development.

Green Collaboration for Sustainable Living: Learning, Empowerment, and Prosperity in Sukadamai village, Cikupa District, Tangerang

Green Collaboration for Sustainable Living: Learning, Empowerment, and Prosperity in Sukadamai village, Cikupa District, Tangerang

Digital technology, green innovation, and the carbon performance of manufacturing enterprises

With the continuous promotion of digitalization and the global trend toward a low-carbon economy, the issue of whether enterprises can enhance their carbon performance with the assistance of digital technology has aroused widespread attention from both academia and industry. In order to explore whether digital technology can improve the carbon performance of manufacturing enterprises, this study, based on resource orchestration theory and signaling theory, utilizes data from China’s A-share manufacturing enterprises from 2012 to 2021 to empirically investigate the relationship between digital technology and the carbon performance of manufacturing firms. It also explores the mediating conduction path and boundary influencing factors between them. Its findings demonstrate that: digital technology is capable of improving carbon performance; green innovation (including green technology and green collaboration) has partially mediating effects; there is a catalytic role for environmental information disclosure in utilizing digital technology to enhance carbon performance. Building on this, we find that the impacts of digital technology, green innovation, and environmental information disclosure on carbon performance vary due to differences in the nature of industries and the strategic aggressiveness of enterprises. Specifically, the role of digital technology on carbon performance seems somewhat more pronounced among firms in the high-tech industry and those employing defensive and analytical strategies. Additionally, the effects generated by green innovation and environmental information are more pronounced in the high-tech industry and among enterprises that adopt analytical strategies. This study reveals the inherent mechanism of digital technology in enhancing the carbon performance of manufacturing enterprises, which provides empirical evidence for the development of digital technology and the improvement of carbon performance in manufacturing enterprises, thus helping promote low-carbon economic transformation.

Developing a Green Supplier Evaluation System for the Chinese Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Industry Based on Supplier Willingness to Participate in Green Collaboration

To control the carbon emission problem arising from the manufacturing process of electric vehicle batteries, green collaboration with raw material and equipment suppliers is critical. However, Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturers are still unsure how to measure suppliers’ green collaboration willingness, and existing studies have also failed to develop an evaluation system for such measurement. Therefore, this article aims to build a supplier evaluation system based on the green collaboration willingness for Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturers. Based on the above, this article designs an analysis process based on the case study method concept and combines it with the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory, analytic network process, and best-worst method to develop a methodology. The research results show the following. 1) The evaluation system involves four criteria, including the ability to meet buyer needs, the relationship between manufacturers and suppliers, responsibility and commitment, and the implementation of environmental management, of which the ability to meet buyer needs is the most important criterion. 2) The relationships between manufacturers and suppliers are a critical criterion for measuring suppliers’ willingness to collaborate in green supply chain improvement. 3) Based on the abovementioned factors, we also identify a causal relationship between the critical criterion and other criteria. In contribution, in addition to filling the gap in the literature, the evaluation system proposed in this article can also help battery manufacturers select suppliers with high collaboration willingness to promote the decarbonization of battery production.

Embracing green supply chain collaboration through technologies: the bridging role of advanced manufacturing technology

PurposeThe implementation of green collaboration has evolved from the interfirm level to the supply chain level, which requires more participation in information and manufacturing technologies. Despite many efforts to green supply chain collaboration (GSCC), the research on how to enhance it from a technological perspective remains unclear. Thus, this study aims to address this gap by exploring how to enhance green supplier, internal and customer collaboration through using information technology (IT) and advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), which further accelerates environmental and economic performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study was conducted based on survey data collected from 213 manufacturing firms from different industries. The direct effects of the conceptual model were tested using the method of structural equation modeling (SEM), whereas the bootstrapping method tested the mediation effects of AMT between IT and GSCC.FindingsThe results show that green supplier collaboration (GSC) is significantly associated with environmental performance, while green customer collaboration (GCC) is positively related to economic performance. Green internal collaboration not only enhances green supplier and customer collaboration but also boosts environmental and economic performance. IT directly improves green internal collaboration but is negatively related to GSC and insignificantly related to GCC. However, AMT not only enhances green internal, supplier and customer collaboration but also mediates the relationship between IT and green supplier and customer collaboration.Originality/valueThis study offers comprehensive and novel insights into GSCC from a technological perspective, giving rise to meaningful contributions to green practices for both scholars and practitioners.

System Dynamics Based Modeling of Group Green Cooperation Experiment Teaching

Facing with the increasingly prominent global environmental protection problems, green teaching, as the basis of global sustainable development, has been advocated in China. Especially green experimental teaching have been carried out in most majors with outstanding environmental protection issues in China’s higher teaching. However, current literature shows that, except for the pollution-related experiment such as biochemistry and chemical engineering, other majors attach less importance to green experiment teaching, which is due to people’s insufficient cognition of generalized green experiment. To make full use of resources, deal with pollutants rationally, and improve green experimental effect, based on the universal requirements of green experimental teaching, for protecting the ecological environment of experimental teaching, research on the influencing factors and driving performance of green experiments in group collaboration is proposed. Firstly, through questionnaire survey, the influencing factors of group green cooperation experiment are analyzed. Secondly, its model is further established based on system dynamics. Finally, simulation on the model should be carried out by Vensim PLE software for the green experiment teaching. The findings suggest that, group is a better way to carry out green experiment effectively in colleges and universities. It should be emphasized that the key to popularize green experiment teaching in colleges and universities is to master the group green cooperation features and the green management ability of laboratory managers. In other words, the performance of group green collaborative experiments is mainly driven by the features of group green collaboration and the green teaching management capabilities of laboratory managers. Specially, we should be careful of the consistency between the collaboration characteristics of the experimental group and the green management ability, otherwise it is easy to conflict in the concept, specific operation and other aspects, resulting in inefficient green experiments. At the same time, the group’s green cooperation features are limited by its cooperation conditions and are subject to it. Moreover, we also need to identify that laboratory managers’ experimental organization capabilities are not equal to their green experimental management capabilities, too rigid experimental management is not conducive to play the performance driving role of green experimental management. The paper aims to provide some theoretical references for developing China’s higher green experimental teaching performance through green experimental management mechanisms.

Pengaruh green supply chain management terhadap performa ekonomi dan organisasi pada UMKM industri makanan di Wonosobo Jawa Tengah

MSME production activities contribute significantly to environmental pollution due to the limited knowledge and use of the latest technology on health and environmental impacts. The implementation of green supply chain management will bring drastic changes in supply chain processes. The costs incurred will increase, including the costs of inventory, production, and transportation. This study aims to analyze the relationship of three different levels of variables from the implementation of green supply chain management. This study uses quantitative methods with multivariate analysis methods. Data processing is assisted using smartPLS software. Data were collected by distributing 100 online and offline questionnaires to respondents and using a Likert scale measurement scale. Institutional pressure has a significant effect on external green collaboration and internal green practices. Leadership has a positive effect on internal green practices, but has no relationship with external green collaboration. External factors have no significant effect on economic and organizational performance. However, internal factors have a significant effect on economic and organizational performance. This research helps food SMEs to make decisions in formulating strategies and provides knowledge on the application of green supply chain management from various organizational perspectives.

A Systematic Literature Review of Strategic Partnership in Sustainable Supply Chain - Indian Aerospace Industries

The sustainable supply chain is an integration of mainly environmental and social aspects to the traditional supply chain for an organization’s economic performance over a long period and creating a competitive advantage. Supply chain collaboration or strategic partnership is important in the supply chain network, which can result in effective sustainable supply chain in all three dimensions of environmental, social, and economic aspects of an organization. In the present study, an attempt has been made to develop a conceptual framework in understanding the role of supplier strategic partnership and collaboration in creating a sustainable supply chain in Indian aerospace industries. This framework has been developed by considering the concepts and research gaps identified by several researchers in the relevant research articles on sustainability, sustainable supply chain management, green supply chain management, supplier collaboration, or strategic partnership. This framework is developed focusing on goal 9 of the 17 sustainable development goals namely Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.

Impact of Green Supply Chain Management on Economic and Organizational Performance of Food Industry in Sindh and Punjab

The aim of this study to investigate the impact of green supply chain practices from the management decision-making level to the implementation of the food industry. We hypothesized that positive Institutional and Leadership Pressures would lead to external and internal Green Practices, which would in turn makes the organizational as well as economic Performance better. Institutional performance seems to have a positive and significant effect on external green practices, however, affect negatively to internal practices. Leadership pressure also has a negative effect on external green collaborations. Both internal and external factors also seem to have a positive and significant effect on both organizational and economic performance. As expected, economic performance seems to affect organizational performance, moreover, external Green Collaboration also affect Internal Green Practices, positively. Organizations and decision-makers of the food industry are provided with detailed insight into implementing a green supply chain, from multiple perspectives of the organization, which may help the decision-makers in formulating the strategies. It is a novel attempt to assess the organizational and economic performance of the food industry in Pakistan, using a modified version of the Ahmed & Najmi model, as it shed light for the first time on how institutions and leadership can influence the performance of the food industry through green practices.

Composing urban green collaboration: Exploring coordination in long-term civic–municipal greenspace planning

ABSTRACT Long-term civic–municipal collaboration around developing public urban greenspace has been increasing in many European cities in the last decades. This novel tendency in urban spatial development is explored via a case study set in a Danish context. Here the municipal landowner, alongside a civic association, has developed an overgrown public urban greenspace into a thriving recreational area through a dedicated collaboration spanning more than six years. I deploy the concept of commonality from the sociology of engagements, developed by Laurent Thévenot, to unfold an integrated analysis of the multiple situations of social coordination and engagement constituting this collaboration. I argue that the ability to accommodate, compose and connect several differing ways of engaging with urban greenspace, is beneficial in sustaining long-term civic–municipal collaboration and securing the civic anchorage of greenspace planning. I discuss the implications and generalisability of these findings.

Nel in green hydrogen strategic collaboration with Kvaerner

Nel in green hydrogen strategic collaboration with Kvaerner

Green supply chain management: impact on environmental performance and firm competitiveness

Unrestrained industrialisation resulting in environmental pollution has mobilised the unstinting endeavours of scientist, researchers, policy makers and ecologist in a quest to rapidly unearth solutions to mitigate further environmental deterioration. One promising ongoing development is green supply chain management (GSCM), which promises a reduction of pollution and waste in manufacturing. GSCM achieves this through the mechanism of improving manufacturing efficiency, by reducing costs, enhancing product quality and improving product delivery. This study applies the natural resource-based view, and quantitatively examines the impact of the implementation of GSCM on firm environmental performance, and firm competitiveness. Data was collected from 122 sampled firms, analysed, and evaluated in two ways. Firstly, using partial least squared-structured equation modelling (PLS-SEM), results indicate that 'green procurement', and 'green supplier and customer collaboration', have a significant positive relationship with both firm environmental performance, and, firm competitiveness. Secondly, using importance-performance matrix analysis (IPMA), both 'green procurement' and 'green supplier and customer collaboration' are mapped in the high in importance/high-performance quadrant. The practical recommendations are for organisations to prioritise efforts and resources towards 'green procurement' and 'green supplier and customer collaboration' in order to maximise the return on 'green' investment.

Developing and analyzing framework for understanding the effects of GSCM on green and economic performance

PurposeThe concept of green supply chain management (GSCM) is gaining popularity in developing countries due to the environmental and economic impact along with increasing awareness of environmental safety. Enterprises are trying to express their sincere commitment toward green practices. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of GSCM on green and economic performance of the firm under the influence of leadership and institutional pressures.Design/methodology/approachConceptual model was developed from previous research works to understand the driving forces of green and economic performance which had inconsistent findings in the literature. Data were collected from 174 leading ISO 14001 certified manufacturing firms in Pakistan by using a structured questionnaire. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling is used for testing the hypotheses.FindingsThe statistical results indicate that the leadership and institutional pressures influence the firm for adoption of internal green practices and external green collaboration. The statistical results also suggest that green practices significantly improve firm’s green and economic performance. However, firm’s external green collaboration does not significantly affect green performance, but it improves green performance significantly.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is conducted on Pakistan as a case of highly populated developing country.Originality/valueThis research presents the empirical evaluation of the influence of leadership and institutional pressure on green practices and improved green and economic performance. The results offer useful understanding for SCM practitioners seeking to adopt GSCM practices. The results also provide policy insights for regulators, organizations and legislators to further promote GSCM.

LRN 2016 SPECIAL – the antecedents and consequences of reduction within a supply chain collaboration orientation of CO2 emissions: evidence from China

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the impact of a predisposition towards supply chain collaboration (SCC) on the reduction of CO2 emissions, along with its consequences, within the context of a growing recognition of green collaboration. The study draws upon three theoretical lenses, i.e. natural-resource-based view (NRBV), resource dependence theory (RDT) and institutional theory. It conceptualises a research framework in which the underlying constructs are defined and the hypotheses postulated. The empirical investigation was undertaken in China, resulting in data pertaining to 167 companies compiled from a questionnaire survey and subsequently analysed using structural equation modelling. The research findings reveal a causal relationship between two orientations, i.e. SCC orientation and a firm's CO2 emission reduction orientation, and SCC-led CO2 emission reduction and its impact on a firm's performance. The study suggests that, in a ‘low-carbon’ business environment, firms can guarantee the engagement of an SCC-led CO2 emission reduction initiative towards broad environmental sustainability.

Examining corporate environmental proactivity and operational performance: A strategy-structure-capabilities-performance perspective within a green context

This study examines the process through which a firm's proactive environmental management strategy influences operational performance. We apply the strategy-structure-capabilities-performance (SSCP) theoretical perspective within a green context to develop a model that describes how green collaboration with suppliers and green process innovation enables firms to act more competitively. Our hypothesized model is empirically tested using a sample of supply chain managers derived from a Dun & Bradstreet database. Managerial and theoretical insights are also discussed.

An analysis of institutional pressures, green supply chain management, and green performance in the container shipping context

This paper presents a study which utilized a conceptual framework with institutional theory as its base to empirically evaluate the impact of institutional pressures, internal green practices, and external green collaborations on green performance. Factor analysis was employed to identify the key institutional pressures (i.e. coercive, normative and mimetic pressures), internal green practices (i.e. green shipping practices and green operations), external green collaborations (i.e. green collaboration with supplier, green collaboration with partner, and green collaboration with customer), and green performance (i.e. reduction of pollutants, and perceived green brand) dimensions. We collected data from surveyees employed by 129 container shipping companies and agencies in Taiwan, and applied a structural equation model (SEM) to test the research hypotheses. The findings revealed that institutional pressures have positive effects on internal green practices; internal green practices positively influence external green collaborations; internal green practices and external green collaborations positively influence green performance but institutional pressure is not positively associated with external green collaborations. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications are presented to help container shipping operators improve green performance.

Green collaboration: How environmental policies influence the relationship between R&D partners (WITHDRAWN)

The use of environmental policies to facilitate R&D collaborations that generate environmental innovations (EIs) is increasingly important for sustainable development. However, less is known about ...

Green supply management and performance: a resource-based view

This study develops and empirically tests, from the resource-based perspective, a conceptual framework linking green supply management and performance. The proposed model is tested using data from a sample of 126 automotive manufactures in China. The results suggest that both green purchasing personnel and green supplier selection have a significant positive effect on green supplier collaboration, and that building green collaboration with suppliers is significantly and positively related to both environmental and operational performance. Accordingly, knowledge and skill development of the purchasing function can be recognised as an important resource in building green supply capabilities and performance.

Analyzing relationships between project team compositions and green building certification in green building projects

Purpose Literature on organizational analysis identified that project participants have a certain impact on the project outcome. However, there is no study that identifies the impact of project teams and individual project participants on a green building project. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of green building project teams on green building certification. Design/methodology/approach Project information, project team information, and green building certification grade were collected using the Canadian green building database. Project team data were analyzed and organizations were ranked based on their green building project experience and collaborations with experienced green building organizations. The page rank algorithm is used to calculate the rank of organizations in order to identify the impact of organizational rank on the final green building certification grade of a project. Findings The results show a positive relationship between the green building certification grade and the number of organizations with more green building experience in a project team. The results also show that not having experienced key organizations such as owners, designers, and contractors will likely lead to a lower green building certification grade. Originality/value Impact of project teams on green building projects has not been studied before. This study used an innovative method to analyze green building project teams and to investigate the importance of green building project experience. The findings of this study provided evidence to support the influence of project team compositions in green building projects. The results presented in this paper can help project owners and managers during project team formation for successful execution of green building projects.