Journal
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Volume 151, Issue 4, Pages 1081-1095Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3228-1
Keywords
Environmental performance; Financial performance; Green human resource management; Green supply chain management
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Balancing environmental, social, and economic performance is today considered a key responsibility that firms have toward society. As a result, academics, practitioners, and political decision makers are increasingly paying attention to environmental management systems improving a full spectrum of environmental performance. In that regard, even if recent literature suggests that environmental management should be deployed through a cross-functional approach, extant literature mostly focuses on independent functional systems. This paper addresses this gap investigating how the deployment of environmental management in the human resource functionadopting green human resource management (GHRM) practicesand the supply chain functionadopting green supply chain management (GSCM) practicesimpact on environmental and financial performance. We draw from a multiple-respondent survey of human resource and supply chain managers in multiple industries in Italy. The study suggests that GHRM and GSCM impact on both environmental and financial performance and shows that GHRM and GSCM exert those impacts in a joint fashion. Indeed, our results show that GSCM plays a mediating role in the relationship between GHRM and performance. Overall, our results provide researchers and managers with relevant insights into the cross-functional deployment of the environmental values and principles across functions.
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