Green Emerging Digital Technologies, Green Supply Chains, and the Performance of Environmentally Friendly Firms: The Underpinning Role of Human Resources
基于资源基础观，通过对211家巴西企业的调查，分析了绿色信息系统、绿色人力资源管理与绿色供应链之间的关系，并考察了这些关系对企业环境与财务绩效的影响。研究发现绿色信息系统通过促进组织流程间接提升绩效，而人力资源在信息系统与绿色供应链之间起部分中介作用。
Anchored in the resource-based view, this research analyzes the relationships between green information systems (Green IS), green human resource management (GHRM), and green supply chains (GSCM). It then examines the effects of these relationships on the environmental and financial performance of organizations. To meet the proposed objectives, a survey was carried out with 211 Brazilian companies, with the data analysis stage employing the structural equation modeling technique. The main findings include that green information systems play an important role in supporting green supply chain practices, and indirectly contribute to environmental and financial performance by facilitating organizational processes. Furthermore, our results reveal that human resources partially mediate the relationship between information systems and green supply chains, through employee engagement in environmental management and rewards based on environmental performance. This study also brings a number of theoretical and practical contributions. In terms of theory, it highlights a previously unexplored relationship between the prevailing concepts of Green IS, GSCM, and GHRM, and their impacts on firm performance, which enriches the body of knowledge in the IS, HR, and engineering management fields. For practitioners, this study reveals how they can strategically articulate HR, IS, and supply chain functions to support sustainability strategies. The findings clarify that blending technical (IS) and soft (HR) skills is pivotal to developing valuable GSCM capabilities to support and improve companies’ performance.