TY - JOUR
T1 - The supply-side of environmental sustainability and export performance : the role of knowledge integration and international buyer involvement
AU - LI, Ling Yee, Esther
AU - ZHOU, Lianxi
AU - WU, Aiqi
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - Most of previous studies seek to understand buyer perspectives in green supply chain relationships and devote inadequate attention to the strategic role of upstream suppliers. Drawing on a market-oriented approach to sustainability, this paper examines the enabling factors and processes that underpin how export suppliers from emerging economies leverage their strategic intent to develop knowledge integration capacity for achieving improved export performance. The results from a sample of Chinese exporters show that the relational capacity of knowledge integration mediates the performance impact of market-oriented environmental sustainability, and such a mediating process of leaning is further enhanced by international buyer involvement. We reveal that relationship efforts should be directed at developing integrative capacity involving key partners for implementing proactive environmental strategy in international business-to-business (B2B) markets. This study contributes to the research of supply chain sustainability in a global context.
AB - Most of previous studies seek to understand buyer perspectives in green supply chain relationships and devote inadequate attention to the strategic role of upstream suppliers. Drawing on a market-oriented approach to sustainability, this paper examines the enabling factors and processes that underpin how export suppliers from emerging economies leverage their strategic intent to develop knowledge integration capacity for achieving improved export performance. The results from a sample of Chinese exporters show that the relational capacity of knowledge integration mediates the performance impact of market-oriented environmental sustainability, and such a mediating process of leaning is further enhanced by international buyer involvement. We reveal that relationship efforts should be directed at developing integrative capacity involving key partners for implementing proactive environmental strategy in international business-to-business (B2B) markets. This study contributes to the research of supply chain sustainability in a global context.
KW - Buyer-supplier relationships
KW - Export performance
KW - International buyer involvement
KW - Knowledge integration
KW - Market-oriented environmental sustainability
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/5514
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85011002689&doi=10.1016%2fj.ibusrev.2017.01.002&partnerID=40&md5=d03558e3fd82282b3c6c850373579872
U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.01.002
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0969-5931
VL - 26
SP - 724
EP - 735
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
IS - 4
ER -