An exploration of relationships between environmental practice and manufacturing performance using the PLS path modeling

Abstract

Many manufacturers turn to highlight the concept to improve product development, quality goals, waste reduction, energy conservation, and to enhance manufacturing performance. Environmental practices involve complex components ranging from planning the product/process design, top management support, production practice to organizational design. Only few works concern about the relationship between environmental practice and manufacturing performance. However, there is lacking of a model to facilitate the comprehensive relationships between environmental practice components and manufacturing performance. In this study, the conceptual framework is proposed and tested between an environmental practices and the manufacturing performance. This empirical assessment collects 616 respondents from Taiwanese high-tech manufacturing firms and modelizing used partial least squares path.