The aim of this study is to explore the link between green manufacturing practices, operational competitiveness, firm reputation and sustainable performance dimensions as well as advance a mediation approach.,The study resorted to structured questionnaire to collect data from 158 manufacturing firms from different industries, and partial least square–structural equation modelling is used to test all hypothesized relationships.,The results indicate that green manufacturing has a positive significant impact on social, economic and environmental performance. However, firm reputation and operational competitiveness were found not to significantly influence economic performance. The mediation analysis also showed that operational competitiveness, firm reputation and environmental performance play no mediation role between green manufacturing and economic performance. Furthermore, social performance is found to mediate the relationship between green manufacturing and economic performance.,The study did not consider any moderator variables. Also, the universal applicability and generalizability are somewhat a problem since data was mainly collected from Ghana, an emerging country.,The results provide managers with reasonable evidence to proactively implement and invest in green manufacturing practices because such practices will not only have a positive impact on their sustainable performance dimensions but further enhance operational competitiveness and provide firms with superior reputation.,The study provides significant findings that contribute to and expand the literature on green manufacturing, and it is among the relatively few studies that has investigated the link between green manufacturing, sustainable performance dimensions, firm reputation and operational competitiveness, especially from a mediation analysis perspective.

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探索绿色制造、运营竞争力、企业声誉和可持续绩效维度之间的联系：一种中介方法

本研究的目的是探索绿色制造实践、运营竞争力、企业声誉和可持续绩效维度之间的联系，并提出一种调解方法。该研究采用结构化问卷收集来自不同行业的 158 家制造企业的数据，并使用偏最小二乘-结构方程模型来检验所有假设关系。结果表明绿色制造对社会、经济和环境绩效具有积极的显着影响。然而，公司声誉和运营竞争力并未显着影响经济绩效。中介分析还表明，运营竞争力、企业声誉和环境绩效在绿色制造和经济绩效之间没有中介作用。此外，发现社会绩效在绿色制造与经济绩效之间的关系中起中介作用。本研究未考虑任何调节变量。此外，由于数据主要来自新兴国家加纳，因此普遍适用性和可推广性也有些问题。结果为管理者积极实施和投资绿色制造实践提供了合理的证据，因为这些实践不仅会产生积极影响在可持续的绩效维度上，但进一步提高运营竞争力并为公司提供卓越的声誉。