A relação da multinacionalidade, da terceirização e da colaboração ambiental com fornecedores com o desempenho ambiental: uma análise em plantas de manufatura metal-mecânicas e eletroeletrônicas

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the environmental performance with outsourcing, environmental cooperation with suppliers and multi-nationality. The research proposed three hypotheses derived from the literature, and tested from by a database survey on manufacturing plants. To this end, the constructs used have been taken from the international research project called High Performance Manufacturing (HPM). The sample consists of companies out of a database in the fourth round of the project, collected in three sectors (electronics, motor vehicles and machinery and equipment). After processing the data, we obtained a total of 257 valid surveys. The data have been statistically analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. As for the results, this identifies that the environmental cooperation with suppliers has a positively influence to the environmental performance in the plants. However, there was no significant relationship between multinationality and outsourcing with environmental performance. This present work contributes to the theoretical and practical discussions for manufacturing strategy in studies to empirically demonstrate that the environmental practices of collaboration with suppliers may result in an improvement of environmental performance.