The Impact of Government and Major Customers on Firm’s Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Considering Regional Difference

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210407.159How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), Customer concentration, Government policies and regulations, Firm’s administrative connection, Regional difference

Abstract

In the context of the Chinese government’s strategy for sustainable development, this paper studies the impact of government and major customers on firm’s sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). Drawing the data of 234 public manufacturing enterprises from CSMAR database, the results suggest that the impact of government and major customers on SSCM perform differently among China’s three economic regions. Specifically, in Eastern region, the government has significant impact on SSCM, the impact of firm’s administrative connection is negative, while the impact of government policies and regulations is positive. Major customers have significant impact on SSCM in Western region. Specifically, the short-term effect of major customers is negatively related to SSCM. While the long-term effect of major customers is in the opposite order, indicating that long-term and stable supply chain relationships with high customer concentration can promote enterprises’ SSCM level and short-term cooperation behavior with high customer concentration will hinder the implementation of SSCM.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiali Li
AU  - Lianzhi Sun
AU  - Yiming Lu
AU  - Xuan Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/08
TI  - The Impact of Government and Major Customers on Firm’s Sustainable Supply Chain Management
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 840
EP  - 849
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.159
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.159
ID  - Li2021
ER  -