Development of the Integrated Framework of Green Supply Chain Management for Improving both Economic and Environmental Performance

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530445
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Ube National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: MATSUNO Seigo 宇部工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 教授 (30290795)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UCHIDA Yasuo 宇部工業高等専門学校, 経営情報学科, 教授 (70321487) ; HASAMA Masayoshi 宇部工業高等専門学校, 経営情報学科, 講師 (20609789)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 経営情報 / サプライチェーンマネジメント / 環境経営

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project treated the development of the integrated framework of green supply chain management for seeking to achieve both economic and environmental performance. We conducted exploratory factor analysis and extracted the following two factors: 'profits and value creation motive' and 'adaptation to environment motive'. Then, we identified five constructs, namely, environmental commitment, supplier collaboration, supplier assessment, information sharing among suppliers, and business process improvement. These explanatory variables are used to form a structural model explaining the environmental and economic performance. The model was analyzed using the data from a survey of sample of manufacturing firms in Japan. The results suggest that the degree of supplier collaboration has an influence on the environmental performance directly. While, the impact of supplier assessment on the environmental performance is mediated by the information sharing and/or business process improvement.

Free Research Field

経営学