Strengthening effects of managerial innovativeness in promoting sustainable supply chain management in tourism business

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate sustainable tourism supply chains by examining the roles of environmental management, social support, and financial performance of tourist destination agencies. By placing the mediating role of innovativeness, this study developed a theoretical framework to explore the antecedents of tourism supply chain management. This research was conducted in a national park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with 176 samples from tourism business actors. By using purposive sampling method, data analysis was performed using Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results of the analysis show a positive and significant influence of environmental management, social support, and financial performance on managerial innovation. These variables in the next analysis are estimated as antecedents of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in tourism, indicating positive and significant effects resulting from the analysis. In particular, the analysis also raises the important role of managerial innovation in improving the performance of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in tourism. Empirically, these findings underscore that the greater capabilities of the tourism organization in consolidating organizational resources, organizational performance and social support is more likely to increase the sustainability of SCM.

Exploration of the impact of green supply chain management practices on manufacturing firms’ performance through a mediated-moderated model

“…Specifically, the beneficial effect of GSCM on business performance was amplified when information sharing was substantial (Shaharudin et al, 2019). This shows that efficient information exchange improves GSCM procedures' performance results, research concentrated on the moderating role of supply chain integration in the link between GSCM and business performance, including information sharing (Thahir et al, 2022). The research discovered that this link was positively reduced by supply chain integration.…”

“…(2022) environmental or green purchasing refers to incorporating environmental considerations into purchasing policies, initiatives, and practices. Others have put forth more purchasing-focused definitions, contending that the term "green supply activities" refers to the purchasing process's role in facilitating internally driven environmental activities like recycling, reuse, and source reduction (Thahir et al, 2022). To improve supply chain performance, research into shifting production objectives from customers to suppliers has grown over the past 15 years.…”