The impact of organisational conflict on green supplier integration: the moderating role of governance mechanism

ABSTRACT

Although green supplier integration is vital, our understanding of how to govern the conflict in this supplier-manufacturer relationship is still limited. This study explores the impacts of three types of organisational conflict (relationship conflict, task conflict and process conflict) on green supplier integration and the moderating roles of two types of governance mechanisms (i.e. contract control and relational norms). Using survey data collected from 206 Chinese manufacturers, we examine the hypotheses. Our findings indicate that relationship conflict, task conflict and process conflict all have negative impacts on green supplier integration. Furthermore, contract control weakens the negative impact of process conflict on green supplier integration, while relational norms alleviate the negative impacts of relationship conflict and process conflict on green supplier integration. This research provides novel insights for better understanding the organisational conflict governance mechanism in green supplier integration in China.

KEYWORDS:

• Organisational conflict
• green supplier integration
• governance mechanism
• moderating effect

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was partially supported by Soft Science Research Project in Shaanxi Province (No. 2019KRM142), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71702148), Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province (tsqn201909154), Science and Technology Program for Innovation of Shandong Universities (2020RWG003), and Social Science Planning Research Project in Shandong Province (19CGLJ03).