Effect of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environmental Performance: Case of Mexican Manufacturing Companies

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, José Roberto Díaz Reza, Karina Cecilia Arredondo Soto, Guadalupe Hernández Escobedo, Ari Happonen, Rita Puig I Vidal and Emilio Jiménez Macías
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Jorge Luis García Alcaraz: Department of Industrial Engineering, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez 32310, Mexico
José Roberto Díaz Reza: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez 32310, Mexico
Karina Cecilia Arredondo Soto: Department of Industrial Engineering, Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico/IT Tijuana, Tijuana 22414, Mexico
Guadalupe Hernández Escobedo: Department of Industrial Engineering, Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico/IT Tijuana, Tijuana 22414, Mexico
Ari Happonen: LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
Rita Puig I Vidal: Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, University of Lleida, 08700 Igualada, Spain
Emilio Jiménez Macías: Department of Electric Engineering, University of La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Managers implement several Green Supply Chain Management ( GSCM ) practices to improve sustainability and economic performance, such as environmental management systems ( EMS ), eco-design ( ED ), source reduction ( SR ) and attending to external environmental management ( EEM ) requirements; however, the relationship among them requires a deep study. This paper reports the case of the Mexican maquiladora industry, analyzing the main relationships among GSCM practices with environmental impact ( EI ) and environmental cost savings ( ECS ). The analysis reports three structural equation models (SEM) developed as simple, second-order, and mediating models. Those relationships are tested using 160 responses to a survey applied to the Mexican maquiladora industry and with partial least squares algorithms (PLS), where conditional probabilities for different scenarios in latent variables are also reported. Findings indicate that EMS has a direct effect on EI (β = 0.442) and ECS (β = 0.227), indicating that EMS reduces EI and cost associated with the production process; however, ED has no direct effect on EI (β = 0.019) and ECS ((β = 0.006), and it can be due to the maquiladora nature as foreign companies focused on manufacturing and not to product design.

Keywords: green supply chain practices; Mexican maquiladora; environmental impact; causal analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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