Top-management environmental support and environmental performance: a moderated-mediation role of supplier environmental management and adaptability

Abstract

This study examines how and when top management’s environmental support influences firms’ environmental performance and investigates a moderated mediating role of external supplier factors in environmental management practices. A multinational data set collected from 289 manufacturing companies was used to examine the proposed hypotheses empirically. The results demonstrate that top management environmental support promotes environmental performance directly but also indirectly through supplier environmental management. Besides, the results show that supplier adaptability strengthens the indirect effect of top management environmental support on environmental performance via supplier environmental management. By combining external supplier factors with internal top-management environmental support, this research contributes to a better understanding of how to promote environmental performance more effectively.