Supply Chain Practitioners’ Perception on Sustainability: An Empirical Study

Shaheera Haroon, Muhammad Wasif, Rameez Khalid and Sana Khalidi
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Shaheera Haroon: Department of Management, School of Business Studies, Institute of Business of Administration, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Muhammad Wasif: Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Rameez Khalid: Department of Management, School of Business Studies, Institute of Business of Administration, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Sana Khalidi: Department of Management, School of Business Studies, Institute of Business of Administration, Karachi 75270, Pakistan

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: The sustainability of supply chains is now one of the major global issues due to the vision of the United Nations (UN). By 2030, it is the primary focus of the UN to attain all the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDG). Hence, the primary goal of this study is to examine how practitioners think about sustainable supply chains. Five hypotheses are established to assess the perceptions of supply chain professionals. Forty-two (42) indicators are gathered from the existing literature to establish the survey instrument to collect the responses from supply chain practitioners. Finally, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to evaluate the mediation effects. It is found that social aspects are significantly impacted by the environmental aspects, as compared to the economic aspects. None of these indicators play any mediation effect, as all three are equally important for the sustainable supply chains.

Keywords: sustainable supply chain; green supply chain; perception; structural equation modelling; economic indicator; environmental indicator; social indicator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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