Conceptual paper on the Relationships among Green Supply Chain Integration, Green Innovation and Green Performance

Abstract

The preservation of the natural environment has been an important issue for the last few decades. Nearly every industry has embraced environmental protection practices. Nowadays, organizations pay more attention on the green supply chain management practices to increase their positive environmental impact and mitigate their negative environmental impact. In this context, this review aims to examine the relationships among green supply chain integration, green innovation, and green performance. In order to achieve the review objectives, a systematic review of literature was conducted by using the archival method as recommended by Tranfield and others (2003). This review process includes classifying the literature from sources such as journal articles, edited works, and other research papers relating to the review topic, analyzing, reflecting, and reporting the findings of the review. This review has used the archival method for data collection, because it enabled the researcher to structure research and build a reliable knowledge base on existing literature on and related to green supply chain integration, green innovation, and green performance, and also applied reflections. Findings of the review suggest that there is a positive relationship between green supply chain integration and green performance. Similarly, green supply chain integration leads to green innovation. Moreover, findings of the review suggest that green innovation has a positive relationship with green performance. Finally, findings of the review suggest that green innovation mediates the relationship between green supply chain integration and green performance. Based on the above findings, this review proposes a mediation model that is useful to test and understand the relationships among the green supply chain integration, green innovation, and green performance empirically in the future.