Contribution of components of Green Supply Chain ExecutionPackaging in Green Supply Chain Performance measurement-A Pilot Empirical Study of the Indian Automobile Manufacturing Sector

Abstract

This paper is one of the several extensions of the research works done by [5]. Green Supply Chain Practices have been known to have an impact on Green Supply Chain Performance [5].This paper tests empirically through a pilot study of the Indian Automobile Manufacturing Sector, the contribution of the four variables constituting the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging in Green Supply Chain Performance measurement. Also the paper establishes the reliability of the questionnaire instrument developed previously for measuring the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging and also for measuring the four variables that constitute the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging. Further the paper establishes the correlation among these four variables. Finally this paper conducts Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to arrive at a single factor (linear combination of four variables constituting the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging) to aid in measuring the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging. Finally the paper establishes the order of contribution of the four variables constituting the construct Green Supply Chain Execution-Packaging.

Ordering of components of Green Supply Chain Practices jointly impacting the individual components of Green Supply Chain Performance – An Empirical Study of the Indian Automobile Manufacturing Sector

“…Also the order of influence of each of the five components of GSC Practices on each of the ten components measures of GSC Performance is consistently in the descending order of influence of the GSC Practices namely LCA, EC, PP, DFE and RL. Also on the basis of communality estimates (h 2 ) of the components of each of the five GSC Practices and on the basis of the communality estimates of the components of each of the ten GSC Performance measures it is possible to rank the order of the variables constituting them as established in [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21] Fig.12 through Fig. 21 that particular GSC Practices have a pre-dominance over the other ones in influencing the individual GSC Performance measures.…”

“…Confirmatory Factor Analysis was also conducted on the variables constituting the sub-constructs GSCPLAN [15], GSCPROC [16], GSCEXPROD [17], GSCEXLOG [18], GSCEXPACK [19], GSCEXMARK [20], GSCEXSL [21], CM [22], GSCMIG [23] and GSCCI [24] in a similar manner. This helped in identifying the factors and also in establishing the communality estimates for or each of the sub-constructs in the questionnaire.…”

“…This helped in identifying the factors and also in establishing the communality estimates for or each of the sub-constructs in the questionnaire. By sorting the component variables of each sub-construct in descending order of value of their communality estimates, it was possible to establish the order of contribution of component variables constituting each sub-construct [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23] and [24]. The major survey consisted of 103 samples including the 50 samples taken during the pilot survey.…”