The Impact of Employees’ Demographic Factors and External Business Enviorment on Green Supply Chain Adoption: A Case of Small-Medium Enterprises with High Growth Rate in Thailand

Sarakul Sukortpromme, Suraporn Onputtha, Putthiwat Singhdong, Nichakorn Tantivanichanon

Abstract


Due to the importance of green supply chain
influencing business performance, there should be an
interest in finding factors affecting green supply chain
adoption. Accordingly, the objectives of this research were
to study about the factors including employees’
demographic factors and external business environment
factors influenced green supply chain adoption in Thai
small-medium enterprises with high growth rate. The data
was collected from 400 from employees, managers, and
owners in Thai small-medium enterprises with high growth
rate by using questionnaires. The purposive sampling
method followed by convenient sampling method were
used for data collection. Statistics used in the data analysis
include descriptive statistics covering frequency,
percentage, mean, standard deviation, and multiple
regression analysis. The findings indicated that different
employees with age, position, education, monthly income,
and experience in organization had different degree of
green supply chain adoption. In addition, the external
business environment factors influenced green supply
chain adoption in Thai small-medium enterprises with high
growth rate at the statistically significant level as of 0.05.
The result from this study can help entrepreneurs to
manage the related factors in order to promote adoption of
green supply chain management in the company.
Keywords – Green Supply Chain Management, Adoption,
Small-Medium Enterprises with High Growth Rate


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