A Comparative Study Of Drivers Renewable Energy Initiatives On Sustainable Business Performance: A Mediating Effect Of Eco-Efficient Based Green Supply Chain Management
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Date
2015
Authors
Uu, Chein Rou
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Global warming become major concern in every country especially electrical and electronic industry in order to be less dependency on fossil fuels and more towards renewable energy sources. However, implementation of renewable energy projects and activities have been slow to materialize. Therefore, these challenges and pressures push industry to implement environmental management practices in order to achieve sustainable business performance. This study is a cross-national study among Germany and Malaysia with a model for drivers of renewable energy initiatives (i.e. government involvement, organizational support and technology support) on the antecedents, eco-efficient based green supply chain management (i.e. green information system, green purchasing, eco-design and reverse logistics) on mediator and outcomes are sustainable business performance in term of environmental, operational and economic performance.
An online survey is administrated to electrical and electronic industry in Germany and Malaysia respectively. 110 data from Germany and 140 data from Malaysia were analyzed using the SmartPLS 2.0 for structural equation modeling and IBM SPSS 22. Analytical results demonstrated that Germany has been earlier implemented policy than Malaysia. Besides that, Malaysia manufacturing awareness still not there so government has to implement and developed more policy to support manufacturing. The guiding theories in this study are institutional theory and natural resources based view. This study provides practical suggestions to practitioners on the drivers of renewable energy initiatives to implement eco-efficient based green supply chain management. However, there are few limitations in this study. This study ends with recommendations for future study.
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Business performance