The Impact of Institutional Pressures on Green Supply Chain Management and Firm Performance: Top Management Roles and Social Capital

Soh Hyun Chu, Hongsuk Yang, Mansokku Lee and Sangwook Park
Additional contact information
Soh Hyun Chu: Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea
Hongsuk Yang: Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea
Mansokku Lee: School of Business, State University of New York at Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454, USA
Sangwook Park: Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: This study investigates the impact of three institutional pressures, namely government, customer, and competitor pressures, on the environmental and operational performance of firms. These three institutional pressures are examined by implementing green supply chain management, considering the role of top management and studying social capital between buyers and suppliers in the supply chain. Data were collected through an electronic mail survey from buyer firms in the manufacturing industry in Korea. With 241 complete and usable responses, we used structural equation modeling to test our hypotheses. Our findings revealed that the majority of our hypotheses were supported, which is in line with the existing literature. However, the impact of coercive pressure on top management support and the impact of structural social capital on performance were found to be insignificant. The major contribution of our study is that it broadens the framework of green supply chain management (GSCM) by integrating major and recent constructs in the GSCM theory, while also providing instructive managerial implications through empirical evidence.

Keywords: institutional pressures; green supply chain management; firm performance; top management role; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (37)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/5/764/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/5/764/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:9:y:2017:i:5:p:764-:d:97808

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().