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Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Organizational Performance: The Role of Buyer-Supplier Relationship

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Norzawani Ibrahim, Razli Che Razak, Nur Najjah Abd Rahim, Norasekin Abd Rashid, Noor Azlina Mohamed Yunus

Pages 337-352 Received: 11 Nov, 2022 Revised: 13 Dec, 2022 Published Online: 15 Jan, 2023

http://dx.doi.org/10.46886/IJARBSS/v13-i1/10239
To achieve competitive advantage in the global market, the manufacturing sector are now concern towards economic performance and environmental performance. The role of green supply chain management practices become a role of strategy to improve both economic and environmental performance. Nevertheless, lack of relationship between buyer and supplier caused the organization takes a long time to achieve the positive outcome even though the green supply chain management practices has been implemented. The main objective of this study is to perform the conceptual model to investigate the relationship between green supply chain management practices, buyer-supplier relationship, and organizational performance. The originality of the research is its investigation of buyer-supplier relationship as the moderator and predictor in the proposed conceptual framework, something that has been unnoticed in previous research. The results support extensive inputs into resource-based view theory, and expand the growing literature related to supply chain and firm performance in a developing country.
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