SMEs' Sustainability: Green Supply Chain Practices and Environmental Performance
Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices
ISBN: 978-1-80455-679-5, eISBN: 978-1-80455-678-8
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This book chapter aimed to examine the relationships between green supply chain practices and environmental performance in Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The practices of green supply chain in achieving environmental performance have been one priority concerns in Malaysia. However, green supply chain practices adoption remains emergence.
Design/methodology/approach
This manuscript adopted the multiple regression analysis in investigating the green supply chain (GSC) practices and environmental performance's variables. The self-administered surveys were randomly disseminated to Malaysian SMEs and 59 responses were returned. The result theoretically ascertained the positive relationship between GSC practices and environmental performance measures.
Findings
The findings are in aligned with the Resource-Based View (RBV) theory that conceptualized the GSC practices and strategies to sustain the environmental performance within the SMEs. In a nutshell, these findings would serve as the research implications and recommendations to the scholars, industrial practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in these GSC practices and environmental performance. This would further serve as a guideline for companies that tend to implement these GSC practices for improving its environmental performance.
Originality/value
The research revealed that ‘eco-design and packaging’ and ‘reverse logistics’ are significant to environmental performance, but both ‘green procurement’ and ‘investment recovery’ are not significant to environmental performance. The literature gaps exhibited for this manuscript; hence, future studies should be carried out on supply chain practices and environmental performance since there is no prescriptive method in sustaining environmental performance that matches all conditions in Malaysian SMEs.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank all the respective respondents during the interviews and provide data throughout this study conducted. In addition, the authors acknowledge the support given by Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Fakulti Pengurusan Teknologi Dan Teknousahawanan (FPTT), Centre of Technopreneurship Development (CTeD), 75450 Ayer Keroh, Melaka, Malaysia for the financial support and facilities provided in completing this research. We will welcome any collaboration for this kind of research with an open arm.
Citation
Teoh, B.A., Soong, Y.Q. and Le Germaine Chee, J. (2023), "SMEs' Sustainability: Green Supply Chain Practices and Environmental Performance", Raza, S.A., Tunio, M.N., Ali, M. and Puah, C.H. (Ed.) Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 129-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-678-820231007
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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