Green Production Attributes and Its Impact in Company’s Sustainability

The process of selection of a supplier plays a fundamental role in the supply chain. With the emergence of the so-called green attributes this process has become more complicated. Besides, it is unknown if the attributes have an impact on the performance of the company. This chapter presents a structural equation model using four latent variables: green policy attributes, green attributes preproduction, green attributes in production processes, and green attributes postproduction to determine the dependence among them. The relationships define six hypotheses. To validate the model, a sample of 253 interviews to managers of firms located in Mexico was taken. To reduce dimensionality the partial least squares (PLS) method was used. The results indicate that there is a direct and positive impact among the variables analyzed. However, the most significant is the relationship between the green policy and the green attributes preproduction.