Manufacturers’ Closed-Loop Orientation for Green Supply Chain Management

Shumin Liu and Young-Tae Chang
Additional contact information
Shumin Liu: School of Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, No. 2, North Baiyun Avenue, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510420, China
Young-Tae Chang: Graduate School of Logistics, Inha University, 100 Inha Road, Nam-gu, Incheon 22212, Korea

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 1-29

Abstract: The concept of green supply chain management (GSCM) is still in its infancy and has been implemented only to a limited extent. Strategic orientation is an important factor affecting its implementation. No reliable and valid strategic orientation construct has been developed for greening a supply chain. This study proposes closed-loop orientation (CLO) as the appropriate strategic orientation to implement GSCM practices successfully and develops a valid measurement of CLO. Data collected from 296 Chinese manufacturers were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method to examine the relationships among CLO, GSCM practice and environmental and economic performance. The results show that both CLO and GSCM have positive effects on the environmental performance and economic performance and that CLO positively impacts the level of implementation of GSCM. The results also show that GSCM completely mediates the relationships between CLO and environmental and economic performance.

Keywords: closed-loop orientation; green supply chain management; closed-loop; strategic orientation; environmental performance; economic performance (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 (10)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/2/222/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/2/222/ (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:2:p:222-:d:89500

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 ().