Environmental management competitive pressure effect on SME environmental innovation activities: A green supply chain perspective
The idea of assimilating green supply chain is to integrate and establish environmental management into the supply chain practices. The study aims to explore how environmental management competitive pressure influences a SME company in Malaysia to incorporate green supply chain integration, which...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English English |
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2018
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| Summary: | The idea of assimilating green supply chain is to integrate and establish
environmental management into the supply chain practices. The study aims to explore
how environmental management competitive pressure influences a SME company in
Malaysia to incorporate green supply chain integration, which is an efficient platform
to develop environmental innovation. This study further advances green supply chain
management research in Malaysia by using the method of quantitative analysis to
analyze the model developed which data will be collected based on a sample of SMEs
in Malaysia in manufacturing sector. The model developed in this study illustrates how
environmental management competitive pressure from main competitors affects three
fundamental dimensions of green supply chain integration. The research findings
suggest that environmental management competitive pressure is a vital driving force
for a SME company to incorporate internal and external collaboration in developing
green product innovation. From the analysis conducted, the study strongly
demonstrated that the best way for a company to counteract competitor’s
environmental management success is to first implement strong internal green product
development process then move to incorporate external environmental management
innovation between their suppliers and customers. The findings also show that internal
integration of green product innovation fully mediates the relationship of
environmental management competitive pressure and the external integration of green
product innovation. |
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