Drivers for Green Purchasing: An Empirical Study

摘要：

Green purchasing is environmentally-conscious purchasing practice that takes into consideration reduction elimination of hazardous materials, recycling, reuse, and resource reduction during purchasing process. Despite the significant role that green purchasing can play in improving environmental performance of firms, little is known about the drivers that motivate firms to adopt green purchasing, especially in Malaysia. This paper examines the effect of four drivers; regulations, customer pressures, social responsibility, and expected business benefits on green purchasing in the Malaysian manufacturing sector. The empirical findings suggest that green purchasing is affected regulations, customer pressures, and expected business benefits. The results also suggest that, although Malaysian firms show high level of social responsibility, this level does not constitute genuine driver for these firms to adopt green purchasing. The results provide insight into why Malaysian firms adopt green purchasing activities. They also provide managers and policy makers with a list of drivers that can be used as directions for setting appropriate policies that encourage firms to adopt green purchasing initiatives.

关键词： Green Purchasing Drivers Malaysia

作者: Tarig Eltayeb Suhaiza Zailani

作者单位: School Of Management,Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Penang, Malaysia School Of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Penang, Malaysia

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Third International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management(第三届运营与供应链管理国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 308-314

在线出版日期: 2009-07-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）