Green Supply Chain Integration And Sustainable Supply Chain Performance: The Mediating Roles Of Green Innovation And Supply Chain Resilience, And The Moderating Roles Of Green Value Co-Creation And Absorptive Capacity
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18553989
Abstract
The research focuses on how the Green Supply Chain Integration (GSCI) affects the Sustainable Supply Chain Performance (SSCP) and the parallel mediating role of Green Innovation (GInv) and Supply Chain Resilience (RES) in particular, and the possible moderating role of Green Value Co- Creation (GVCc) and Absorptive Capacity (AC) in particular. The study was based on the resource-based view, relational view and the knowledge-based perspective, and had a quantitative approach where primary data was gathered through a web-based survey of managers engaging in the supply chain and sustainability practices working in different industries. The mediated- moderated conceptual model was empirically constructed and analyzed with the help of the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) in SmartPLS software.
The results show that, the direct relationship between the three dimensions of GSCI, which include Green Internal Integration, Green Customer Integration and Green Supplier Integration and SSCP, was not found to be significant after adjusting some factors between them therefore indicating that the relationship between them is largely indirect. Green Customer Integration (= 0.345, p = 0.001) and Green Internal Integration = 0.210, p = 0.037) became significant positive predictors of Green Innovation and no significant impact of Green Supplier Integration was noticed. The direct positive impact of Supply Chain Resilience on SSCP was the most consistent and strong (β = 0.296, p = 0.001), which emphasized the importance of the latter in the attainment of sustainable results in unstable conditions.
Absorptive Capacity turned out to be a critical organization competency, with a strong positive direct impact on both the Green Innovation (0.245, p = 0.019) and Supply Chain Resilience (0.444, p < 0.001), and a significant indirect impact on SSCP through the resilience pathway ( 0.131, p = 0.011). Green Innovation, in its turn, showed a comparably non-significant positive impact on SSCP (= 0.208, p = 0.092), and no mediation by Green Innovation was established. Also, the moderating effects of Green Value Co-Creation (on the GSCI–SSCP relationship) and Absorptive Capacity (on the GSCI–Green Innovation and GSCI–Resilience relationships) were not found as all terms of interaction were not statistically significant.
In sum, the structural model was moderate to high in explanatory power, considering that it explained 47.8% to 52.4% of the variance in the endogenous constructs. The findings emphasize the fact that the role of green supply chain integration in sustainable performance is majorly indirect in nature with Supply Chain Resilience being the predominant means of transmission and Absorptive Capacity acting as an important enabling factor. These results criticize the simplistic direct-effect approaches and stress the strategic significance of building organizational resilience capacity and knowledge acquisition systems in making successful conversion of green integration initiatives into long-term sustainability benefits in a business world that is becoming more uncertain and disruptive.
