Mastos Theofilos D, Gotzamani Katerina, Ieromonachou Petros, Tsiotras George
Business Excellence Lab, School of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Connected Cities Research Group, School of Business, Operations and Strategy, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9LS, UK.
Foods. 2024 Nov 21;13(23):3713. doi: 10.3390/foods13233713.
This paper presents a model designed to measure and investigate the relationships between critical factors, practices, and performance of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in the food industry. A survey of 423 firms in the Greek food industry was conducted to meet these objectives. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis, followed by confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, to explore the relationships between the model's constructs. The results indicate that "firm-level critical sustainability factors" and "supply chain critical sustainability factors" significantly enhance "supply chain collaboration" and "supply chain strategic orientation". Additionally, "supply chain strategic orientation" positively influences "social performance" and "environmental performance", while "supply chain collaboration" positively affects "economic performance" and "environmental performance". Furthermore, "social performance" is found to have a significant positive impact on "economic performance". This study provides empirical evidence that helps managers understand the importance of the relationships among SSCM critical factors, SSCM practices, and SSCM performance, and enables them to allocate resources effectively and design SSCM strategies. Finally, the developed constructs offer a measurement tool useful for both practitioners implementing SSCM in their firms and researchers who wish to apply or test the proposed scales in other projects or use them as benchmarks.
本文提出了一个模型，旨在衡量和研究食品行业可持续供应链管理（SSCM）的关键因素、实践与绩效之间的关系。为实现这些目标，对希腊食品行业的423家公司进行了一项调查。使用探索性因素分析对数据进行分析，随后进行验证性因素分析和结构方程建模，以探索模型各构念之间的关系。结果表明，“企业层面的关键可持续性因素”和“供应链关键可持续性因素”显著增强了“供应链协作”和“供应链战略导向”。此外，“供应链战略导向”对“社会绩效”和“环境绩效”有积极影响，而“供应链协作”对“经济绩效”和“环境绩效”有积极影响。此外，“社会绩效”被发现对“经济绩效”有显著的积极影响。本研究提供了实证证据，有助于管理者理解SSCM关键因素、SSCM实践和SSCM绩效之间关系的重要性，并使他们能够有效地分配资源和设计SSCM战略。最后，所开发的构念为在其公司实施SSCM的从业者以及希望在其他项目中应用或测试所提出的量表或将其用作基准的研究人员提供了一种有用的测量工具。
