An empirical study of green management and performance: The moderating roles of circumstance uncertainty and total quality environmental management in Taiwanese electronics firms

• Main Authors: Wen-Bo Wang, 王文博
• Other Authors: Ying-Chin Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77845489692069420750

博士 === 國立中央大學 === 企業管理學系 === 105 === Global warming and increased pollution from electronics production highlight the importance of green management (GM). In order to mitigate environmental pollution damages and to satisfy the escalating expectations from customers, society and governments for excellent environmental management, green management (GM) has received increasing attention across electronics corporations. The electronics enterprises play an important role in contributing Taiwan economic development and modernization. A great deal of enterprises in the electronics industry have also sought to enhance their environmental management capabilities owing to environmental laws requirements or customer pressure. Effective environmental management, which includes all efforts to minimise the adverse environmental impacts of an enterprise’s processes and products throughout their life cycles, has become a priority in virtually all industries in Taiwan. In order to reduce harmful substance discharging and maintaining a clean pipeline along material flows, it’s important to develop green products and green processes for the purpose of effectively diminishing the wastes produced from all activities throughout supply chain. Therefore, two primary assignments of GM as technology-driven, environmentally sensible practices are identified for consolidating operations management and environmental management: Green product development (GPD) and green supply chain management (GSCM). Through a survey of 213 Taiwanese electronics manufacturers, this research empirically examines the influence of GM on organisational performance improvement. Drawing on a moderated hierarchical regression analysis, we evaluate the general relationship between specific GM practices and performance. The findings indicate that GM has a significant impact on firm performance. We then investigated how moderators - circumstance uncertainty (CU), and total quality environmental management (TQEM) influence the relationship between GM practices and organizational performance. Several crucial relationships are derived from our results. The moderating effects of CU and TQEM demonstrate that in some cases with certain GM practices, the inclusion or exclusion of CU and TQEM might reduce or improve performance. Our study demonstrates that CU is a facilitator of effective cooperative behavior in inter-firm relationships. We also found that when the CU factor intensified, it has a partial positive moderating effect on the relationship between supplier integration and operational performance by exerting a positive moderating effect, which contrary to the original hypothesis. In addition, this paper discusses the managerial implications of the study results, managerial implications are also being detailed.