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Linking Green Supply Chain Management Skills and Environmental Performance

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This chapter investigates the link between green supply chain management skills and performance outcomes in the logistics sector. Relationships between green supply chain management skills and two performance outcomes, environmental performance and innovation performance, are examined. Survey data were collected from the Finnish, Russian, Puerto Rican and Panamanian logistics sectors and the theoretical framework was subjected to analysis using structural equation modeling. The results show a positive link between green supply chain management skills and environmental performance in all four countries, whereas the link between green supply chain management skills and innovation performance was found only in Caribbean countries.

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  1. Department of Information and Service Management, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland

    Pinja Raitasuo & Markku Kuula

  2. Department of Management, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Alex J. Ruiz-Torres

  3. Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Max Finne

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Raitasuo, P., Kuula, M., Ruiz-Torres, A.J., Finne, M. (2019). Linking Green Supply Chain Management Skills and Environmental Performance. In: de Boer, L., Houman Andersen, P. (eds) Operations Management and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93212-5_14

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