The effects of greening the supplier and innovation on environmental performance and competitive advantage

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management

 
 
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Title The effects of greening the supplier and innovation on environmental performance and competitive advantage
 
Creator van den Berg, Unine Labuschagne, Jean-Pierre van den Berg, Hugo
 
Subject Supply chain management and Environmental management Green supply chain management; greening suppliers; green innovation; environmental performance; competitive advantage
Description Companies in South Africa should realise the important influence of greening their suppliers and of innovation to achieve environmental goals and competitive advantages. In order to prove this, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 75 companies from 11 industries in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality region, South Africa. A confirmatory factor analysis was done, followed by bivariate correlations to determine the strength of association between the latent constructs. Correlations between greening the supplier, innovation, environmental performance and competitive advantages were done. The research found that a green innovative process had a significant effect on environmental performance. Green managerial innovation further had a significant correlation with competitive advantage. The primary result of the study indicated that all the constructs positively related to each other, meaning that greening suppliers, by means of green innovation, leads to an enhanced environmental performance and to competitive advantages.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2013-10-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Questionnaire
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jtscm.v7i1.121
 
Source Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management; Vol 7, No 1 (2013); 7 pages 1995-5235 2310-8789
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality region Study conducted between January 2013 and June 2013 Age – 28 – 50; Gender – Both; Ethnicity – All groups
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Unine van den Berg, Jean-Pierre Labuschagne, Hugo van den Berg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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