Motivating low-carbon initiatives among suppliers: The role of risk and opportunity perception

Damert, Matthias; Ying-jun, Feng; Zhu, Qinghua; Baumgartner, Rupert J.

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.05.002

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“…From the relational view, when the customers had stricter environmental requirement, to establish, maintain, and foster the buyer-supplier relationships, the LSPs would face more external pressure and, thereby, be more motivated to adopt the strategy of low-carbon SCI. This result is also consistent with previous research in low-carbon SCM showing that buyer requests or environmental criteria may have positive effects on suppliers' decisions of green supply chain practices or low-carbon initiatives in supply chains [12,38].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Low-carbon SCM is defined as "a strategy that integrates CO 2 or CO 2 equivalent or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, either as a constraint or as an objective in supply chain design and planning" [11] (p. 399). It is considered as the combination of low-carbon operations management and SCM in response to climate change, focusing on activities that reduce the carbon footprint in supply chains [12], such as low-carbon products, production, processes, and logistics. A substantial amount of research has been conducted on low-carbon SCM, mainly focusing on the functional and operational aspects of SCM concerning carbon performance and emission issues, as well as the measurement issues of carbon footprint [13].…”

Section: Low-carbon Supply Chain Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While green SCM is concerned with a broad scope of environmental problems such as pollution control, natural resource conservation, and waste management, low-carbon SCM mainly focuses on GHG emission reduction [11]. Although some researchers argue that the drivers, barriers, and performance outcomes of low-carbon SCM should be similar to those of green SCM [12], the empirical findings on the determinants and effectiveness of low-carbon SCM have been inconclusive. For instance, although environmental regulation has been shown to be a determinant of low-carbon initiatives [12], they are not found to motivate extended supply chain practices for energy saving and emission reduction [15], and are not found to determine inter-firm collaborations on carbon emission reduction either [16].…”

Section: Low-carbon Supply Chain Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One is on the internal and external drivers of green or low-carbon initiatives in the supply chain. Previous literature on green SCM has identified a variety of drivers of green supply chain initiatives, such as clear environmental vision and policy statement [30], customer pressure [12,31], and regulatory pressure [18,32]. Damert et al [12] empirically show that buyer requests to reduce GHG emissions (as a source of normative and coercive forces) and climate change regulation can motivate the suppliers to implement low-carbon initiatives.…”

Section: Drivers Of Lsps' Low-carbon Scimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous literature on green SCM has identified a variety of drivers of green supply chain initiatives, such as clear environmental vision and policy statement [30], customer pressure [12,31], and regulatory pressure [18,32]. Damert et al [12] empirically show that buyer requests to reduce GHG emissions (as a source of normative and coercive forces) and climate change regulation can motivate the suppliers to implement low-carbon initiatives. The other stream of research is on the antecedents of SCI, such as selection criteria [24], organizational cultures [33], strategic supply chain relationship [34], and dependence [7].…”

Section: Drivers Of Lsps' Low-carbon Scimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Low-Carbon Initiatives of Logistics Service Providers: The Perspective of Supply Chain Integration

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Logistics service providers (LSPs) are under tremendous pressure in the fight against global climate change. While existing research has examined the operational importance of LSPs in decarbonizing supply chains, the strategic perspective of LSPs on low carbon supply chains has not received enough attention. Motivated by the evolving role of LSPs from a service provider to a resource integrator in the supply chain, drawing on the relational view of inter-organizational competitive advantage, this paper focuses on LSPs’ low-carbon supply chain integration (SCI) and empirically investigates its drivers and outcomes. Data from 124 Chinese LSPs shows that LSPs’ corporate environmental responsibility and customer environmental requirement have positive relationships with LSPs’ low-carbon SCI, and that LSPs’ low-carbon SCI is positively related to LSPs’ environmental and financial performance. In addition, LSPs’ environmental performance is found to have a positive relationship with LSPs’ financial performance. These findings not only provide new insights for LSPs’ low-carbon supply chain initiatives, but also highlight the importance of SCI as a strategic approach in low-carbon supply chain management.

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Section: Drivers Of Lsps' Low-carbon Scimentioning

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How eco‐control systems enhance carbon performance via low‐carbon supply chain collaboration? The moderating role of organizational unlearning

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Despite the increasing awareness of eco‐control systems (ECS), whether and how a firm's deployment of ECS affect carbon performance is not known. Drawing on organizational learning theory, this study investigates how a firm's implementation of ECS enhances carbon performance via low‐carbon supply chain collaboration, and examines the moderating effect of organizational unlearning. To verify these hypotheses, we conduct hierarchical regression analyses using survey data from 297 Chinese manufacturers. Our results indicate that both supplier and customer low‐carbon collaborations mediate the impact of ECS on carbon performance. In addition, organizational unlearning strengthens the impact of ECS on customer low‐carbon collaboration, but weakens the impact of ECS on supplier low‐carbon collaboration. This study extends the digital transition and sustainability literature by unpacking the “black box” of transforming ECS into carbon performance and considering the contingency role of organizational unlearning. Our findings provide managers with new digital technologies to improve low‐carbon supply chain management and guide governments to appropriately extend policies that accelerate the manufacturing industry's transition to sustainability.

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Customer base environmental disclosure and supplier greenhouse gas emissions: A signaling theory perspective

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As suppliers' emissions contribute to a significant portion of the global environmental footprint, achieving supply chain wide carbon neutrality largely depends on suppliers' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Although suppliers' customers are increasingly signaling their commitment to tackling climate change through environmental disclosure, whether this signal contributes to supplier emissions reduction remains a question. Using signaling theory, this research proposes an emissions‐reducing effect of customer base environmental disclosure on a supplier's GHG emissions level. Using a 2010–2017 panel dataset from multiple sources, we find empirical evidence supporting the upstream emissions‐reducing effect of customer base environmental disclosure. Further, we identify two customer‐base characteristics that affect this relationship: customer base climate innovation and competition. These findings contribute to the sustainable supply chain management literature by illustrating the effects of the customer base on supplier emissions performance. Specifically, customers could motivate a supplier's engagement in emissions reduction by collectively signaling their environmental commitment through enhanced disclosure. However, the effectiveness of this signaling effect can be contingent on the green innovation and competitive dynamics of the customer base.

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Motivating low-carbon initiatives among suppliers: The role of risk and opportunity perception

Cited by 48 publications

References 55 publications

Low-Carbon Initiatives of Logistics Service Providers: The Perspective of Supply Chain Integration

Low-Carbon Initiatives of Logistics Service Providers: The Perspective of Supply Chain Integration

How eco‐control systems enhance carbon performance via low‐carbon supply chain collaboration? The moderating role of organizational unlearning

Customer base environmental disclosure and supplier greenhouse gas emissions: A signaling theory perspective

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