Business strategy, spiritual capital and environmental sustainability performance: mediating role of environmental management process
Business Process Management Journal
ISSN: 1463-7154
Article publication date: 28 November 2022
Issue publication date: 13 January 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the influence of business strategy and spiritual capital on environmental sustainability performance. Furthermore, it investigates whether the influence is mediated by environmental management process.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is designed as a quantitative research. A survey method is employed for collecting 454 data from the managers/owners of Indonesian manufacturing micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to test the hypothesis. A mediation research approach is employed to describe the relationship between research variables.
Findings
The findings demonstrate the following important results. First, business strategy affects environmental sustainability performance. Second, spiritual capital affects environmental sustainability performance. Third, environmental management process fully mediates the effect of business strategy on environmental sustainability performance. Fourth, environmental management process partially mediates the effect of spiritual capital on environmental sustainability performance.
Originality/value
This study addresses the issue of previous research gaps. By employing a mediation research framework, this study argues that environmental management process has a mediating role in business strategy–environmental sustainability performance relationships. Furthermore, it addresses the lack of empirical studies regarding the effect of spiritual capital on environmental sustainability performance via environmental management process. Thus, this research emphasizes the role of management or business process in developing resource-based view (RBV), natural resource-based view (NRBV), sustainability theory and MSMEs' management practices.
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Acknowledgements
Authors would like to thank Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture), Indonesia, for funding this research.
Funding: This research has received funding from Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture) Indonesia number 4/E1/KP.PTNBH/2021.
Citation
Tjahjadi, B., Soewarno, N., Karima, T.E. and Sutarsa, A.A.P. (2023), "Business strategy, spiritual capital and environmental sustainability performance: mediating role of environmental management process", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 29 No. 1, pp. 77-99. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-11-2021-0718
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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