- Title
- Green supply chain practice adoption: theory development and empirical evidence
- Creator
- Namagembe, Sheila
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- There is a lot of evidence from the literature indicating that supply chains of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) greatly contribute to environmental pollution. Within the manufacturing supply chains, environmental pollution occurs in the inbound logistics activities, outbound logistics activities, investment recovery activities and internal operations such as production. As a result of the great environmental impact, adoption of green practices has been seen as a remedy to reducing environmental pollution. Although green practices and their drivers have been covered at length in the green supply chain management (GSCM) literature, the concept of enviropreneurial orientation (EO) has not been given significant attention as an internal driver for green supply chain practice adoption (GSCPA). The aims of this study are therefore to advance EO as an additional driver for GSCPA; develop factors that motivate EO; examine the relationships between EO and GSCPA and between GSCPA and firm performance; and to examine the mediating role of GSCPA behavioural intentions on the relationship between EO and GSCPA, and the mediating role of GSCPA on the relationship between EO and firm performance. The research was conducted among owner/managers of SME manufacturing firms in Uganda with owner/managers being taken as the unit of analysis. A quantitative cross sectional survey research design was used. A sample size of 300 was used and a response rate of 67% was obtained. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents from the sampling frame where the respondents were selected without replacement. Survey data was collected using a hard copy questionnaire which, was dropped off to the owner/managers and picked up on completion. Findings from the correlation analysis show that all the motivating factors have significant positive relationships with EO while regression results show that all motivating factors apart from competitive aggressiveness are significant predictors for EO; EO positively influences GSCPA; GSCPA positively influences firm performance; a partial mediation exists when GSCPA behavioural intentions mediate the relationship between EO and GSCPA; and a full mediation exists when GSCPA mediates the relationship between EO and firm performance. Findings provide theoretical, practical and government implications. Theoretical implications include contributions to theory development in the GSCM literature, practical implications involve firms developing cheaper solutions to solving environmental problems through developing EO while government implications look at development of policies that can promote an attitude change among owner/managers. Areas of further research include investigating the role of teams in adoption of GSCPA and conduction of a comparative study on the impact of EO on GSCPA.
- Subject
- enviropreneurial orientation; green supply chain practice adoption; behavioural intentions; firm performance; SMEs; theory of reasoned action
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351739
- Identifier
- uon:30766
- Rights
- Copyright 2017 Sheila Namagembe
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
- Hits: 636
- Visitors: 1932
- Downloads: 1257
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT01 | Thesis | 4 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download | ||
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT02 | Abstract | 309 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |