Green Suppy Chain Management Practices and Sustainable Performance of County Governments in Kenya

Abstract

This study aimed at ascertaining the effect of green supply chain management on sustainable performance of the county governments in Kenya. The 3 objectives which steered the research are; to establish the level that green supply chain management practices have been adopted by county governments in Kenya; to establish the correlation between green supply chain management and sustainable performance of county governments in Kenya and to find out the challenges encountered in the implementation of green supply chain management by the county governments of Kenya. The methodology adopted was descriptive research design and primary data was acquired through questionnaires which were sent by electronic mails. The population was made up of all the 47 county governments in Kenya and thus census was carried out as per the small population. Descriptive statistics was used in the analysis of objective one and three wile objective two was analyzed through regression analysis. The findings indicate that green procurement was adopted to a large extent whereas green packaging, green distribution and supplier integration were adopted to a medium extent by the county governments in Kenya. Green supply chain management (green procurement, green distribution, green packaging, and supplier integration) were also found to influence sustainable performance through economic, environmental and social performance of the county governments in Kenya. some of the challenges faced in the implementation of green supply chain management include high costs linked with implementation of green supply chain management practices, absence of clear government regulations on adopting green supply chain management, lack of resources for investing in human capital and new technologies to implement green supply chain management practices, inadequate skilled labor and lack of top management support. It is recommended that green procurement, green packaging, green distribution and supplier integration should be adopted to a maximum extent as they have been established to influence social, economic and environmental performance of the county governments in Kenya. Future studies can introduce a third variable be it mediating or intervening variable to see how the outcome will be.