Nigatu Tilahun, Degoma Aschalew, Tsegaye Abiot
Department of Management, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia.
Department of Management, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia.
Heliyon. 2024 Jul 25;10(15):e35188. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35188. eCollection 2024 Aug 15.
Incorporating green issues into business operations is indisputable, as this is mandatory in today's environmental era. The purpose of this study was to explore the structural link between green practices such as green manufacturing, green marketing orientation, green human resource management, green investment, and the economic performance of textile and leather firms in Ethiopia through green innovation. This study was carried out utilizing a quantitative method, and 201 surveys were used to gather the data from the top managers and general managers of medium and large textile and leather firms in Ethiopia using stratified random sampling. To test the hypothesis, partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used. The results of this study demonstrate that green practices, specifically green manufacturing practices (GMP), green marketing orientation (GMO), and green investment (GIV), have a positive and substantial contribution to firms' economic performance (EP) and green innovation (GIN). However, the advancement of GIN is not significantly affected by the adoption of sustainable human resources management (HRM). Moreover, green innovation facilitates the connection between economic success, GIV, and GMO. Nonetheless, when it comes to the relationship between GHRM, green manufacturing practices, and economic success, green innovation plays no mediating function. According to this research, a company's management ought to strengthen its green practices as lower expenses would boost its economic outcome.
将绿色问题纳入企业运营是无可争议的，因为在当今的环境时代这是强制性的。本研究的目的是通过绿色创新，探索绿色制造、绿色营销导向、绿色人力资源管理、绿色投资等绿色实践与埃塞俄比亚纺织和皮革企业经济绩效之间的结构联系。本研究采用定量方法，通过分层随机抽样，对埃塞俄比亚大中型纺织和皮革企业的高层管理人员和总经理进行了201份调查，以收集数据。为了检验假设，使用了偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）。本研究结果表明，绿色实践，特别是绿色制造实践（GMP）、绿色营销导向（GMO）和绿色投资（GIV），对企业的经济绩效（EP）和绿色创新（GIN）有积极且重大的贡献。然而，可持续人力资源管理（HRM）的采用对GIN的推进没有显著影响。此外，绿色创新促进了经济成功、GIV和GMO之间的联系。尽管如此，在GHRM、绿色制造实践与经济成功之间的关系上，绿色创新并未起到中介作用。根据这项研究，公司管理层应该加强其绿色实践，因为较低的成本将提高其经济成果。
