Antecedents and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Environmental Sourcing: An Investigation of Resource‐Based Process and Contingency Effects
研究了美国制造业中战略环境采购的前因（制度压力与环境参与）及其对产品开发、产品质量和环境绩效的影响，发现环境参与是制度压力与战略环境采购之间的关键过程要素，环境绩效是连接战略环境采购与产品绩效的重要中介。
This study develops an understanding of the antecedents and performance‐related consequences of strategic environmental sourcing ( SES ). Institutional pressure and the firm's environmental engagement serve as antecedents to SES , with performance dimensions including environmental, product development, and product quality performance. While direct relationships between these dimensions and SES have been studied in prior work, the present research adds greater specificity and depth by investigating process and contingency effects on product‐level outcomes. The resource‐based theory provides the theoretical motivation for these relationships, which are tested via survey data collected from sourcing professionals in the U . S . manufacturing industry. The results emphasize environmental engagement as an important process element between institutional pressure and SES , and highlight the ability of institutional pressure to strengthen the relationship between environmental engagement and SES . Environmental performance was found as an influential conduit in the relationship between SES and both product quality and product development performance, with SES also serving as a contingency.