Antecedents and Outcomes of Green Supply Chain Management – A Survey of Food Processing Companies in Ghana

Abstract

Amidst a growing concern regarding global warming, there have been fingers pointed at manufacturing organizations to be in the middle of it all. Manufacturing organizations have been accused of pollution of all sorts, which degrades the environment. In an attempt to salvage the situation, a major solution emphasized is "Green Supply Chain Management." There has been strong advocacy for organizations in general to inculcate this concept in their operations. Therefore, the researchers assessed "The Antecedents and Outcomes of GSCM Practices—a survey of Food Processing Companies. As part of the specific objectives, the researchers examined the effect of institutional pressures on GSCM practices and determined the effect of GSCM practices on social, economic, and environmental performance. An online survey was conducted, which gathered 83 responses from food processing companies to conduct this study. The data collected were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 26, Andrew Hayes Process Macro 3.5, and SPSS Amos version 23. The validity and reliability of the instruments were assessed. Also, the study's findings were presented in descriptive and inferential statistics based on the hypothesis to be tested in the study. These hypotheses were developed with reference to the study's objectives. The study's findings revealed that institutional pressures had a significant positive effect on the adoption of GSCM practices. In addition, the results showed that the adoption of GSCM practices had a significant positive effect on a firm's social, economic, and environmental performance. However, GSCM practices had a weak predictive power for economic performance; therefore, it was recommended that firms should not overindulge in investing in GSCM practices as it might not translate into enhanced economic performance. Also, other recommendations were made to future researchers to increase their sample size and expand the industrial focus of this study.