The roles of green supply chain practices on supply chain resilience, environmental performance, and sustainability :( Evidence from textile companies in Ethiopia)

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the roles of green supply chain management practices in environmental performance, supply chain resilience, and sustainability issues. The impacting levels and burdens of traditional supply practices in production, distribution, and processed consumption on performance and sustainable developments have been investigated. The comparisons of traditional supply chains with green supply chain management practices on agility, sustainability (economic, social, and environmental), and impacts on environmental performances were studied. The results show that green supply chain management practices have the highest and most significant positive impact on environmental performance and sustainability, which then indirectly leads to improved income generation and environmental performance. Also, there is the highest significant positive relationship with supply chain resilience in terms of improving agility, flexibility, and business improvements as a whole. Periodization and ranking of the possible indicators of environmental performance, firm sustainability, and green supply chain practices were done. Also, the findings indicate that research related to green supply chain strategy and sustainability issues has not been widely disseminated or popularized in the developing nation scenario. It further reveals that textile industries predominantly operate based on traditional supply chain practices rather than actively embracing the concepts and principles of green and circular supply chain strategies. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used to gather data through a survey. Purposive sampling was used, and the study has been analysed using survey data from a sample of seven selected textile industries in Ethiopia. The SPSS tool, correlation analysis, AHP, and descriptive statistics were mainly used for the analysis and exploration of the investigations. These results significantly expand literature inceptions and shed some further spark on the sustainability miracle. The study recommends that supply chain member organizations adopt circularity-based green supply chain strategies as a mechanism for agility, flexibility, supply chain sustainability, and manufacturing performance as a whole.