Purchasing's contribution to supply chain emission reduction |
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Authors: | Julius Eggert Julia Hartmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of San Diego, CA, USA;2. Bond University, QLD, Australia;3. CQ University, QLD, Australia |
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Abstract: | Does environmental purchasing and supplier management (EPSM) help to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the supply chain and, thereby, mitigate climate change? And, if so, under which conditions? Taking these two questions as a starting point, we hypothesize that heightened environmental protection efforts targeting the upstream value chain should lead to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the buying companies' supply chain. We continue to delineate three contingency factors that might affect the relationship between EPSM and supply chain GHG emissions: The power of the buying firm over supply chain partners, prior experience in EPSM, and materiality of environmental supply chain management in a certain industry. We collect longitudinal data from 260 companies and analyze them using hybrid panel data analysis. We find that the increase of EPSM leads to a significant reduction of the GHG emission intensity of buying firms’ supply chains and that this reduction is stronger for companies operating in industries where emission management is more material. |
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Keywords: | Sustainable supply chain management Environmental purchasing Environmental performance Emission reduction Climate change mitigation Hybrid modelling |
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