The impact of institutional pressures on Green Supply Chain Management and firm performance - from the perspective of top management role and social capital

Abstract

This study investigates the impacts of three institutional pressures, government, customer, and competitor pressures, towards firms environmental and operational performance from implementing green supply chain management, considering the role of top management and social capital between buyers and suppliers in supply chain. Data was collected through electronic mail survey from buyer firms in manufacturing industry in Korea, and with 241 complete and usable responses, we used Structural Equation model to confirm our hypotheses. We revealed that majority of our hypotheses were supported which confirms the existing literature, while the impact of coercive pressure on top management support, and structural social capital on performance were found to be insignificant. The major contribution of our study is that it broadens the framework of GSCM by integrating major and recent constructs in the GSCM theory, and provides instructive managerial implications through empirical evidence.