Mixed methodology to analyze the relationship between maturity of environmental management and the adoption of green supply chain management in Brazil |
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| Institution: | 1. UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Av. Eng. Edmundo C. Coube, 14-01, Bauru, SP 17033360, Brazil;2. University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark;3. Department of Mechnical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark;1. Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;2. Institute for Environmental Management in Companies and Regions, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;1. Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd., Davis Building, Room 3273, Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5L 1C6;2. Economics Department, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192, USA;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, St.Vincent Pallotti College of Engg & Tech, Nagpur, India;2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engg., College of Engineering, Qatar University, Dodha, Qatar;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yeswantrao Chavan College of Engg., Nagpur, India;1. Center for Sustainable Engineering Operations Management, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, Denmark;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, CV Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India;3. Center for Sustainable Engineering Operations Management, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark;4. Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India;1. Mechanical Engineering, ITM University, Gurgaon 122017, Haryana, India;2. Department of Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;3. Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan;4. School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, PR China;1. Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia;2. Foisie School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA 01609-2280, USA;3. Discipline of Business Analytics, The University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this research is to verify the relationship between the maturity levels of environmental management and the adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices by electro-electronic companies in Brazil. In this work a two-phase research was conducted, with one quantitative and the other qualitative. The quantitative phase aimed to test whether a relationship between the maturity levels of environmental management and GSCM exists, while the qualitative phase tried to detail the characteristics of this relationship. The quantitative phase was conducted through a survey with 100 Brazilian electro-electronic companies and the collected data were processed using Structural Equation Modeling. For the qualitative phase, a multiple case study was conducted with three companies located in Brazil. The results indicate that: (1) The main hypothesis was confirmed and considered statistically valid, indicating that, indeed, the maturity level of environmental management influences the adoption of GSCM practices; (2) a coevolution tends to occur between the environmental maturity and the GSCM practices; that is, the more developed is the company's environmental management, more complex GSCM practices are adopted; and (3) the GSCM internal practices tend to present a greater relative adoption than the external practices; these external practices of GSCM tend to be adopted when the company is inserted in a higher environmental stage and/or operates under a scenario of stronger normative environmental pressure. By the way, this is the first research mixing survey and case studies on GSCM in Brazil. |
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| Keywords: | Environmental management Green supply chain management Sustainable supply chain Sustainable operations management Maturity levels of environmental management Electro-electronic sector Brazil |
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