TY - JOUR
T1 - Aligning supply chain strategy with corporate environmental strategy
T2 - A contingency approach
AU - Wu, Tienhua
AU - Jim Wu, Yen Chun
AU - Chen, Yenming J.
AU - Goh, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to National Science Council of Taiwan for the financial support ( NSC 100–2628-S-110-006-MY4 ). Our deepest thanks also go to the referees for their constructive comments.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Environmental sustainability is driving firms to extend their green effort across their supply chain. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the multiple relationships among supply chain (SC) strategy, corporate environmental (CE) strategy, and firm performance. As such, this paper, adopts an alignment perspective to empirically examine the complex links between four SC strategies and four CE strategies on 172 manufacturing firms in Taiwan. Using profile deviation analysis, it is found that overall an SC strategy when properly aligned with a CE strategy leads to improved firm performance. Specifically, a risk-hedging SC strategy should be aligned with a defensive CE strategy to yield improved firm performance. Likewise, a responsive SC strategy should be aligned with an accommodative CE strategy, and an agile SC strategy with a proactive CE strategy.
AB - Environmental sustainability is driving firms to extend their green effort across their supply chain. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the multiple relationships among supply chain (SC) strategy, corporate environmental (CE) strategy, and firm performance. As such, this paper, adopts an alignment perspective to empirically examine the complex links between four SC strategies and four CE strategies on 172 manufacturing firms in Taiwan. Using profile deviation analysis, it is found that overall an SC strategy when properly aligned with a CE strategy leads to improved firm performance. Specifically, a risk-hedging SC strategy should be aligned with a defensive CE strategy to yield improved firm performance. Likewise, a responsive SC strategy should be aligned with an accommodative CE strategy, and an agile SC strategy with a proactive CE strategy.
KW - Alignment
KW - Corporate environmental strategy
KW - Performance
KW - Profile deviation
KW - Supply chain strategy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.02.027
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.02.027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84889680358
SN - 0925-5273
VL - 147
SP - 220
EP - 229
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
IS - PART B
ER -