Stakeholder Pressures, Internal Drivers and Sustainable Logistics Practices on Environmental and Financial Performance in Thai food and beverage manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Conceptual Framework

ผู้แต่ง

  • Siritida Songkhwan Faculty of Business Administration University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
  • Aannicha Thunyachairat Faculty of Business Administration University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
  • Sopida Woranin Faculty of Business Administration University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce

คำสำคัญ:

Stakeholder pressures, Internal drivers, Sustainable logistics practices, Environmental performance, Financial performance

บทคัดย่อ

The purpose of this article is (1) To integrate framework for stakeholder pressures on sustainable logistics practices (2) To present conceptual framework stakeholder theory and internal drivers on sustainable logistics practices and effect to financial and environmental performance in Thai food and beverage manufacturing in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). For academics and practitioners alike, understanding the driving forces behind the adoption of sustainable logistics practices and their effect on firm performance has become essential. The motivation and impact of stakeholder demands on the adoption of sustainable logistics practices and the performance of SMEs in the context of developing nations particularly Thai SMEs, however, remains largely unexplored. Leveraging the stakeholder theory, internal motivations and firm performances which is divided into two parts, namely environmental performance and financial performance.

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