| dc.description.abstract | The business world today is moving towards the “Green Concept” and most firms aim
at cost reduction and waste reduction in their procedures while reducing the
consequence on the environment. Tea production in the East of Rift region dropped
from 20.99 million Kgs in 2020 to 17.39 million Kgs in 2021. The output also in the
East of Rift region declined by 10.06%. The decline in output has been attributed to
climate change which raises global warming cases. There has been rising cost of
production which include energy, water, and pollution costs. The general objective of
the study was to establish the effect of Green Supply Chain Management practices on
the performance of tea processing firms in the East of Rift region. The study was guided
by the following specific objectives; to assess the effect of ecological design on the
performance of tea processing firms in the East of Rift region, to assess the effect of
green information systems on the performance of tea processing firms in the East of
Rift region, to determine the effect of green innovation on the performance of tea
processing firms in East of Rift region, to assess the moderating effect of managerial
support on tea processing firms in East of Rift region and to assess the joint effect of
green supply chain management practices and performance of tea processing firms in
East of Rift Region. The study appropriated the following theories to elucidate its data;
Natural Resource-Based Theory, Ecological Modernization Theory, and Institutional
Theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design; a census survey technique
was adopted on the target population of 39 tea factories in the East of Rift region.
Structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data. The factory production
manager was the respondent in this study. Data was analyzed using inferential statistics
of pooled data with the help of SPSS version 28. Multiple regression analysis was used
to analyze the relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable, a
t-test was used to test the significance of hypotheses at a 5% level of significance, F test was used to test the overall significance. R square showed the variation of the
dependent variable explained by the independent variables jointly. The results of the
pilot study were above 0.7 which is the acceptable range for reliability. The study
established a negative significant effect of ecological design on performance with
regression coefficient 0.015 and a p-value 0.017 Further it was found that green
information system had a positive regression coefficient of 0.094 and a p-value of
0.031. Green innovation had a regression coefficient of 0.251 and a p-value of 0.010
indicating it is significant. The interaction between managerial support and green
supply chain management practices had a regression coefficient of 0.456 and a p-value
of 0.030 and adjusted R2
of 0.301. The study concluded that ecological design, green
information system and green innovation had a significant effect on performance of tea
processing firms in East of Rift and recommends that companies should encourage the
practice of ecological design since it minimizes on cost and enhances performance of a
firm. Managerial support alters the relationship between green supply management
practices and performance implying that ecological design, green information system
and green innovation is enhanced by management support hence affecting performance.
Consequently, this research calls for a more proactive effort from the supply chain
managers and other procurement staff on the need to introduce a typical framework for
the mandatory involvement all stakeholders in green information system so as to
minimize on waste of resources in the organization. On the other hand, managerial
support was found to be significant. The findings of the study will form a basis for
future researchers in this field of procurement and supply chain in Kenya. | en_US |
