Implementation of environmental management practices in the Ghanaian mining and manufacturing supply chains
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
ISSN: 1741-0401
Article publication date: 10 September 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand the driving forces of environmental management practices in mining and manufacturing firms using data from Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach
Prior exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, based on questionnaire survey data, were used to study the driving forces of environmental management practices in the extractive and manufacturing firms using institutional theory.
Findings
Environmental management practices by organizations in Ghana are driven by regulatory and the mimetic pressures. Normative pressure has no significant effect on environmental management practices. The authors found no difference between the extractive and the manufacturing sectors as far as the results are concerned.
Research limitations/implications
The results indicate the importance of regulatory bodies in developing good environmental policies that are implemented and monitored in order to achieve improved environmental performance. Effective implementation of environmental policies is likely to motivate other firms to mimic the actions of implementing organizations. One limitation of this work is the use of data from Ghana. It is important for other researchers to assess these relationships using data from a wider geographical area.
Practical implications
The results indicate that organizations implement environmental management practices as a result of coercive and mimetic pressures. In practice, it is therefore important for the regulatory bodies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency Ghana, to be very innovative in developing good environmental regulations that are monitored to ensure implementation by all polluting sources. This is because the results indicate that the monitoring of regulations by regulatory bodies seems to be connected to the implementation of these regulations. Such implementation is also expected to be benchmarked by other firms, thereby influencing the “greening” agenda in Africa.
Originality/value
The study illustrates and provides some insights, and builds on the literature in the area of green supply chain strategies for a developing country’s environment. This is one of the few studies that investigate the driving forces of environmental management implementation using the institutional theory based on data from the African business environment.
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Citation
Famiyeh, S. and Kwarteng, A. (2018), "Implementation of environmental management practices in the Ghanaian mining and manufacturing supply chains", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 67 No. 7, pp. 1091-1112. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-04-2017-0095
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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