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Assessing the role of green supply chain management in enhancing Pakistan manufacturers’ performances

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The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of success factors of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) dimensions (i.e., green purchasing, internal environmental management, cooperation with customers, eco-design, and investment recovery) and their impact on the Organizational Performance of Manufacturers in Pakistan on three pieces of levels of execution (i.e., Environmental Performance, Economic Performance, and Operational Performance), whereas GSCM practices in developing countries like Pakistan need to be explored. Data was collected from managers of 220 business firms in Pakistan through survey questionnaires with a purposive sampling technique. The target population consisted of managerial employees (business experts and executives) from private business firms, and partial least square-structural equation modeling was used for analysis. All GSCM dimensions were found significant in at least one of the performances, except eco-design on environmental performance and green purchasing on economic performance, either clearly or indirectly. The proposed model assembles and provides the respondents’ distinctive working areas: electronic gadgets, automobile process and machinery sectors. Moreover, the appraisal of the connection between five developments of GSCM practices and three builds with the effect of the green distribution of authoritative execution in the Pakistan assembling setting offers an extraordinary theoretical commitment to exploring the green supply chain management field. First, this research is done by studying the green supply chain management dimensions of different performances of manufacturing firms in Pakistan, which has never been done before. Second, it contributes to the existing literature on critical success factors of GSCM. Manufacturing firms should implement GSCM practices to improve all three types of performance, i.e., environmental, economic, and operational.

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  1. Department of Business & Management Sciences, The Superior University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Ibrahim Tariq & Yasir Hussain

  2. Riphah School of Business and Management, Riphah International University Lahore, Raiwind Campus, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Kashif Abbass

  3. Finance Department, School of Business, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, 31982, Saudi Arabia

    Kaouther Chebbi

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Muhammad Ibrahim Tariq and Kashif Abbass wrote the first draft. Kashif Abbass composed the presentation, writing survey, and observational results areas. Yasir Hussain and Kashif Abbass helped gather and imagine information on noticed factors. Kaouther Chebbi and Kashif Abbass developed the procedure segment in the review. All authors read and approved the final draft of the manuscript.

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Tariq, M.I., Abbass, K., Chebbi, K. et al. Assessing the role of green supply chain management in enhancing Pakistan manufacturers’ performances. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 78495–78506 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27473-5

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