TITLE:
Impact of SMEs Green Supply Chain Practice Adoption on SMEs Firm and Environmental Performance
AUTHORS:
Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Dibyendu Choudhury, K. S. Venu Gopal Rao
KEYWORDS:
Green Purchasing, Eco Design, SMEs Firm Performance, Environmental Performance
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.9 No.6,
August
20,
2019
ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to examine the impact
of SMEs green supply chain practice adoption on SMEs firm and
environmental performance. This study used data from owners/managers from different Industry
Associations and clusters in the SMEs domain in South India and used a two-step approach for
data analysis. In the first step, a measurement model was used to assess the
validity and reliability of the measures, then in the second step structural
model was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results indicate that green
purchasing impacts on SMEs firm performance and environmental performance, and
eco design impacts on SMEs firm performance. To author’s knowledge, this paper
is unique in the terms of finding impacts of green purchasing and Eco design on
SMEs firm performance and environmental performance.