Purpose

While the three interconnected aspects of the triple bottom line -environmental, social and economic sustainability- are well-established, these aspects have insufficiently been addressed together in the supply chain management literature. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether environmental and social performance mediates the relationship between environmental management practices and operational performance and whether operational performance mediates the relationship between environmental and social performance and financial performance.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on a data set of 208 firms operating in a wide range of manufacturing industries, the authors test the hypotheses using structural equation modeling. The research context for the study is Turkey, an important emerging market and one of the nexuses of European and Asian supply chains.

Findings

The findings indicate that all three aspects of sustainability have mutually supportive relationships as demonstrated by positive mediating mechanisms between environmental management practices and operational performance and between environmental and social performance and financial performance. The mediation results correspond with the resource-based view. They indicate that building up capabilities and resources in the form of environmental management practices supports three areas of the triple bottom line and boosts firms’ financial performance.

Originality/value

Research on sustainability is well-established, yet supply chain management research has, thus, far paid insufficient attention to all three aspects. This paper, thus, sets itself apart by explicitly considering all three aspects of sustainability and contributes to understanding how they relate to one another.

中文翻译：

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全面了解企业的​​可持续性：基于资源的可持续供应链管理观

目的

虽然三重底线的三个相互关联的方面——环境、社会和经济可持续性——已经确立，但这些方面在供应链管理文献中没有得到充分解决。因此，本文的目的是检验环境和社会绩效是否介导了环境管理实践和运营绩效之间的关系，以及运营绩效是否介导了环境和社会绩效与财务绩效之间的关系。

设计/方法/方法

作者利用在广泛的制造业中运营的 208 家公司的数据集，使用结构方程模型来检验这些假设。该研究的研究背景是土耳其，这是一个重要的新兴市场，也是欧洲和亚洲供应链的纽带之一。

发现

研究结果表明，可持续性的所有三个方面都具有相互支持的关系，正如环境管理实践和运营绩效之间以及环境和社会绩效与财务绩效之间的积极中介机制所证明的那样。中介结果与基于资源的视图相对应。他们指出，以环境管理实践的形式建立能力和资源支持三重底线的三个领域并提高公司的财务绩效。

原创性/价值

关于可持续性的研究已经很成熟，但供应链管理研究对这三个方面的关注还远远不够。因此，本文通过明确考虑可持续性的所有三个方面而脱颖而出，并有助于理解它们之间的关系。