Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing as a Pathway to Supply Chain Resilience: The Roles of Green Collaboration and Environmental Governance
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https://doi.org/10.55737/trt/FL25.188Keywords:
Green Supply Chain Collaboration, Organizational Environmental Governance, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Supply Chain ResilienceAbstract
There is a growing pressure in the environment and supply chain domain which has increased the importance of resilient and sustainable supply chains. This paper uses the Natural Resource-Based View and the Dynamic Capabilities Theory to discuss how Green Supply Chain Collaboration (GSC) and Organizational Environmental Governance (OEG) can foster Supply Chain Resilience (SCR), and Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM) holds a mediating role. The proposed model was estimated with partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) using survey data obtained on 270 respondents at the managerial level in manufacturing companies in Pakistan in the textile and apparel sectors, food processing, chemical, and light engineering sectors. The results indicate that GSC and OEG possess major direct impact on SCR, and positive impact on ECM, which is substantial. Further, ECM also contributes greatly to the supply chain resilience and partially mediates the associations between GSC and SCR, OEG and SCR, where the latter has a stronger mediating impact than the first. The findings support the significance of the fact that environmental cooperation and governance create the resilience mainly when it is converted into the practice of manufacturing. This research contributes to the resilience and sustainability literature by placing environmental conscious manufacturing as one of the key operational processes by which strategic environmental initiatives are converted into resilient supply chain performance giving managers and policymakers in the emerging manufacturing economies valuable insights.
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