Reprint of Green Supply Chain Collaboration implementation in China The mediating role of guanxi》.pdf

Transportation Research Part E 74 (2015) 37–49 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Transportation Research Part E journal homepage: www.else /l ocate/tre Reprint of ‘‘Green Supply Chain Collaboration implementation in China: The mediating role of guanxi’’ q Jun Luo a,⇑, Alain Yee-Loong Chong a, Eric W.T. Ngai b, Martin J. Liu a a Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China b Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This study aims to understand how buyer–seller relationship, competitive environment Received 8 October 2013 and guanxi affect Chinese manufacturers’ decision to implement Green Supply Chain Received in revised form 6 August 2014 Collaboration (GSCC). We also examine whether guanxi is able to mediate the buyer–seller Accepted 9 September 2014 relationship and GSCC implementation. Data collected from 222 Chinese manufacturing Available online 8 January 2015 organizations were analyzed using the partial least squares method of structural equation modeling. The result shows that buyer–seller relationship influences Green Supply Chain Keywords: Collaboration through asset specificity, volume uncertainty, transaction frequency and Green Supply Chain Collaboration (GSCC) comp