Effect of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environmental Performance: Case of Mexican Manufacturing Companies
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2022-05
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García-Alcaraz, Jorge Luis
Díaz-Reza, José Roberto
Arredondo-Soto, Karina Cecilia
Hernández-Escobedo, Guadalupe
Happonen, Ari
Puig, Rita
Jiménez Macías, Emilio
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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.
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Mathematics, 2022, vol.10, núm. 11, núm. art. 1877