Green Manufacturing for a Green Environment from Manufacturing Sector in Guangdong Province: Mediating Role of Sustainable Operations and Operational Transparency
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Abstract
This work investigates the manufacturing operations of focal firms to manage the enhancement of environmental sustainability (EnS). To achieve this, indirect and direct effects of operational transparency (OPT) and sustainable operations (SUP) between environmental business practices (EBPr) and EnS are proposed. By leveraging the resource-based view theory, this study seeks to clarify how integrating transparency and sustainable operations can enhance a firm’s ability to manage environmental challenges effectively. Aligning environmental business practices with sustainable operations and transparency concepts appears to be an appropriate choice for environmental sustainability. A well-designed questionnaire was formed and used to collect the observations from 1214 focal firms. FsQCA and SEM approaches are employed to analyze one of the research questions of operations management: How do OPT and SUP mediate the effects of EBPr on the environmental sustainability of a firm? The final results clarify that the indirect effects of OPT and SUP significantly completely exist and are positive. The findings describe that firms with operational transparency and sustainability perform well in resolving operational and sustainable issues.
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OpenAlex topics: Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Sustainable Industrial Ecology
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Affiliations
College of Applied Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
College of Urban Transportation and Logistics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China
Funding
Department of Education of Guangdong Province · Guangdong University Engineering Technology Research Center for Precision Components of Intelligent Terminal of Transportation Tools · Shenzhen UAV Test Public Service Platform and Low-altitude Economic Integration and Innovation Research Center
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