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Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences of Green Supply Chain Strategy

Nelson, Dave M. , Dr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449867998

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Operations Management.
As supply chains evolved adapting to market complexity businesses experienced more constraints via government regulations, competitors, industry certification, and market fluctuations, increasing dependence on suppliers. Green chains surfaced with the strategy of three dimensions: environmental, societal concerns and economic viability. This approach paralleled the logic of Corporate Social Responsibility, with performance exhibited by the Triple Bottom Line. Not all firms follow this path, yet still exhibit positive performance. Extant literature shows a gap in distinguishing why not all firms seek the route of CSR Strategy towards TBL performance. To help bridge this, the dissertation research reflects on why some firms pursue such strategy, yet others do not, when both exhibit financial performance. In other words, why do some firms go `green’, while others do not? This study provides a model to investigate factors affecting such strategy with pre-cursor forces: corporate approach; government regulation; industry pressures; consumer influences. For effective implementation, supplier integration and buy-in of the focal firm’s directives must take place. When this is coordinated with management practices of the firm, performance potential is optimized for each of the three dimensions. A research instrument was developed with Q-Sort Testing by experts, representing specific survey industrial sectors. The Qualtrics survey results exhibited respondents from senior-level positions in North American manufacturing companies involved with industry standards in chemical, oil and gas, automotive/light truck, and large equipment production. Overall, 210 responses were received and analyzed with Exploratory Factor Analysis in SPSS for construct evaluation. Most of the constructs were supported. Structural Equation Modeling was then utilized (AMOS), based on EFA results, exhibiting good construct support for most of the proposed hypotheses.
Mark Vonderembse, Dr. (Committee Chair)
263 p.
Management; Sustainability
Supply Chain Sustainability, Green Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • Nelson, D. M. (2015). Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences of Green Supply Chain Strategy [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449867998

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nelson, Dave. Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences of Green Supply Chain Strategy. 2015. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449867998.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nelson, Dave. "Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences of Green Supply Chain Strategy." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1449867998

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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