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Abstract:- This study aims to determine the effect of In today's global competition, all resources can move
green organizational culture, green innovation, and freely. To face these challenges, quality resources are
environmental performance on competitive advantage needed to create various advantages, both competitive
moderated by GSCM on SMEs in Solo Raya. SMEs are advantage through creative and innovative processes. In
the most significant contributor to GDP in Indonesia, so competition in the business world, it is necessary to involve
they must be aware of taking advantage of various parties to respond to a situation. Individual
environmental issues to achieve economic growth and companies and other productive industrial sectors such as
competitiveness. The study method used is quantitative small and medium enterprises are expected to compete in
by distributing online questionnaires to SMEs in Solo global competition.
Raya. Data were collected using convenience sampling
with a sample of 250 SMEs in Solo Raya. The data One of the most discussed issues related to SMEs is
obtained will be analyzed using the Structural Equation environmental pollution due to the disposal of production
Model (SEM). Green organizational culture and green waste. One of the environmental damage is waste pollution.
innovation applied in SMEs in Solo Raya achieve a In Indonesia, waste pollution is mainly caused by
tremendous competitive advantage. Green supply chain companies, home industries, and SMEs. The next issue that
management contributes implicitly and explicitly to becomes a problem for SMEs is how SMEs target
influencing green organizational culture and green consumers with their products. In other words, SMEs must
innovation in improving environmental performance compete and market their products appropriately. The
and competitive advantage. This study can improve Indonesian Retail Entrepreneurs Association (Aprindo) said
innovation strategies in achieving competitive advantage that the obstacle faced by SME actors is inappropriate
creatively on SMEs by paying attention to the marketing that affects their income.
surrounding environment.
SMEs are one of the most significant contributors to
Keywords:- green organizational culture, Green Innovation, the GDP of non-oil exports in Indonesia. Solo Raya is one of
Environmental Performance, Competitive Advantage, the areas where SMEs are increasing, helping local incomes,
GSCM, SMEs. and reducing poverty and unemployment. In the Solo Raya
areas, SMEs can contribute 31.18% lending.
I. INTRODUCTION
Several MSMEs in various fields in Solo Raya are
Environmental issues have become the most discussed recommended to implement environmentally friendly
issue in recent years. This is evidenced by the level of public products. This encourages MSMEs to survive and create
awareness of environmentally friendly products. The new strategies to compete with other industries. Such as
existence of a class of public awareness of environmentally utilizing existing natural resources in the production process.
friendly products then encourages industry players to apply Using natural resources is one proof to realize an
the concept of caring for the environment into their business. environmentally friendly approach.
Industrial companies, large and small, have an essential This study uses the concept of research development
role in building the country's economy. The development from several existing studies. Several variables include
and growth of the current industry cause the rapid pace of green organizational culture and green innovation as
the economy and increasing public demand for products to independent variables, environmental performance as a
meet their needs. Currently, the increasingly competitive mediation, competitive advantage as the dependent variable,
and open global competition creates many challenges that and GSCM as a moderating variable.
must be faced. Challenges of international competition,
unemployment, population growth, social responsibility, and Based on the preliminary study results, Green
employment diversity. organizational culture is a development of organizational
Environmental performance as a mediating variable in H2: Green innovation has a positive effect on
the company is described as follows: reducing air emissions, competitive advantage
reducing wastewater and solid waste produced that can H4: Green innovation has a positive effect on
worsen the environment, and decreasing consumption of environmental performance
hazardous materials. Companies that implement GSCM will
deliver good environmental performance so that GSCM C. Environmental Performance
affects improving environmental performance (Purba Rao, Environmental performance refers to environmental
2018). damage caused by activities carried out by the company or
organization. In contrast, a low level of environmental
Competitive advantage is a company strategy that damage refers to a high and better environmental
cooperates to compete more effectively than its competitors performance. (Lankoski, 2000).The company's
(Porter, 1993). The increasing competition of companies environmental performance is described as follows:
makes companies compete in improving their innovations reducing air emissions, reducing wastewater and solid waste
and strategies. The success of strategy and innovation in a produced that can worsen the environment, and decreasing
company can be measured by its competitiveness. consumption of hazardous materials. Companies that
Competitive advantage has several indicators, one of which implement GSCM will deliver good environmental
is superior products. performance so that GSCM affects improving environmental
performance (Purba Rao, 2018).
Green supply chain management (GSCM) is an
outgrowth of regular SCM with environmental awareness, H5: Environmental Performance has a positive effect on
emphasis on green productivity, and reducing environmental competitive advantage.
impact ((Wang, H.F. and Gupta, 2011). The GSCM variable
as a moderator in this study has a role in determining D. Competitive Advantage
whether GSCM strengthens or weakens the relationship According to (David, 2006), Competitive advantage is
between other variables. anything a company does very well compared to its
competitors. When a company can do something, and
This study uses the concept of research development another company can't do it, or has something that its
from several existing studies. In this study, a model was competitors won't, it represents a competitive advantage.
built to explain the influence of green organizational culture Having and maintaining a competitive advantage is critical
and green innovation on competitive advantage, which then to the long-term success of an organization. Generally, a
environmental performance as mediator and GSCM as a company can maintain a competitive advantage only for a
moderator. certain period due to being imitated by competitors and
weakening that advantage.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
E. Green Supply Chain Management
A. Green organizational culture Supply chain management can integrate environmental
Culture as a mindset and behavior from basic management practices into the entire supply chain
assumptions that have been determined or developed to management to achieve green supply chain management,
learn ways to integrate, which function well and are maintain a competitive advantage, and increase business
considered new and therefore must be taught to new profits and market share objectives. (Seman et al.,
members as a great way to think about, perceive, and feel 2012)Green supply chain management (GSCM) has
interested in the problem (Gibson, 2006). Green continued to develop to build awareness of the environment
organizational culture is a process of organizational and understand mechanism theory as a form of
F. Conceptual Framework
H1
Green
organizationalcu H3
lture
H5
Environmental Competitive
H4 performance advantage
Green innovation
H6a
H2
H6b H6c
III. METHODOLOGY of 140 for the minimum value, and 280 for the maximum
value. So that this study uses a sample of 250 samples. This
A. Sampling and Data Collection method using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation
The population in this study are the owners of Micro, Modeling (PLS-SEM)
Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Solo Raya,
which are engaged in packaged food that are willing to Individuals selected as samples can be described as
achieve competitive advantage through green organizational presented in Table 1. The research results that have been
culture and green innovation. Because the city of Solo Raya processed show that the majority of the respondents' last
is very large, the data collection is divided into 7 regions, education was at the Senior High School (SMA) level with a
namely, Surakarta, Sukoharjo, Karanganyar, Sragen, total of 144 or 57.6%. While the minority of respondents'
Wonogiri, Boyolali and Klaten. It is recorded in the Welfare education level is at the Postgraduate level, as evidenced by
Department of the government in Solo Raya that there are the number of respondents as much as 4 or 1.6%.
712 MSME owners engaged in packaged food.
The company's age, the majority are in the number 5 to
Data collection was carried out through an online 10 years with a total of 100 or 40%. The number of
questionnaire method to 250 MSMEs. The sampling method employees, the majority of companies have 6 to 20
in this study used Convenience Sampling by searching for a employees, as evidenced by the number of respondents as
list of Solo Raya SMEs engaged in the packaged food many as 150 or 60% of the amount of annual income
industry on the Solo Raya SME website, then recording data generated by the company. The majority of the company's
in the form of cellphone numbers and contacting via yearly income is in the range of more than IDR 50,000,000
WhatsApp for availability in the questionnaire. to less than IDR 200,000,000, as evidenced by the number
of respondents as many as 148 or 59.2%.The last
Then the sampling that will be used in this study will characteristic of respondents is based on the number of
be adjusted based on the theory of Hair et al, in the second agents or distributors owned by the company. The majority
point for the number of samples can be obtained from the of companies have 5 to 15 agents or distributors, amounting
number of variable indicators multiplied by 5 to 10, where to 167 or 66.8%.
there are 28 variable indicators multiplied by 5 with a total
B. Questionnaire Design and Measurement Product quality, Product-market fit, Product prices can be
The process of determining the score in the questionnaire competitive, Long life cycle (expired) (Bharadwaj et al.,
uses an interval scale with a 5-point Likert scale approach. 2015). Green supply chain management (GSCM) is defined
Green organizational culture is defined as a way of thinking, as distribution management/agent support for product
values, and norms that exist within the organization to distribution to customers by taking into account the
support organizational processes and goals that are more surrounding environment. which is then measured using the
environmentally oriented, which is then measured using the following five items; Appeal for preservatives, Call for
following five items; Don't litter, Emphasis on using natural environmentally friendly packaging, Notice of expiration
ingredients, Sort the trash properly, Energy saving date, Rejection of dyes, Support natural-based products
(electricity and water), Socialization of healthy life ((Chiou et al., 2011).
(Banerjee, 2002) and (Fraj et al., 2011). Green Innovation is
defined as a new idea to continue adapting without C. Data Analysis
damaging the surrounding environment and maintaining Data obtained through the survey were analyzed with
environmental balance. Green innovation has two Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-
dimensions: green product and green process (Chen et al., SEM) using Smart-PLS 3. The analysis comprised of
2006). which is then measured using the following ten validity, reliability, model, and hypotheses testing. Test The
items; Products made from nature, Environmentally friendly analysis results begin by testing the validity and reliability
product packaging, Product materials can be recycled, The of research instruments. Items are declared valid if they have
product is free from chemicals, The product does not contain a factor loading value greater than 0.5. (Hair et al., 2010).
coloring agents, Use of environmentally friendly This assumption must be met because it is one of the
technology, Production waste is not dangerous, Production requirements to analyze the model with Structural Equation
process with recyclable materials, Environmentally friendly Modeling (SEM). Table 1 indicates that all variables have
production process materials, Energy-saving production convergent validity > 0.50. The reliability test was carried
process (Chen, 2008)(Chen et al., 2006); (Roper & Tapinos, out with the Alpha Cronbach reliability technique. An
2016). Environmental performance is defined as the instrument is considered reliable if it has a reliability
company's ability to reduce air emissions, waste, and coefficient greater than 0.7. (Hair et al., 2010).
consumption of hazardous and toxic materials to the
surrounding environment (Menguc & Ozanne, 2005), which Model testing was performed to test the quality of the
is then measured using the following four items; model used in this study and see whether it could represent
Management of production waste pollution, Management of the data obtained through surveys empirically (Tenenhaus et
pollution due to production, Recovery of environmental al., 2005). This test was accomplished by calculating the
pollution due to production waste, Reduction of hazardous average AVE and R square (R2) values of the model used in
materials (Larrán Jorge et al., 2015). Competitive advantage this study. The resulting value is called the Goodness of Fit
is defined as a collection of different and/or better strategies (GoF) index. A model should have a minimum value of .36
to achieve an advantage over competitors (David, 2006). to be considered valid (Tenenhaus et al., 2005).
which is then measured using the following four items;
Discriminant validity indicates the extent to which a with other latent variables in the model (Chin, 1998).
given construct differs from other constructs (Hulland et al., Discriminant validity was assessed through cross-loading
1996). This follows the rule that indicators have a higher analysis. Overall, the results of the discriminant validity
correlation with latent variables and should be measured testing of this study can be seen in the following Table 3.
B. Hypothesis Testing and Discussions convergent validity meets the requirements (Huang et
a) The goodness of Fit Model Testing al., 2013).The GoF index can be calculated using the
The purpose of GoF is to measure the performance of following formula: GoF = √AVE × R2. The AVE and
the PLS model both on measurement and on the R2 values of each indicator and their averages are
structural model with a focus on predicting the shown in the following table.The initial step is testing
overall performance of the model (Chin, 2010). The the goodness-of-fit model; the results indicate the
recommended minimum AVE value is 0.5, but 0.4 is GoF value = .405. The minimum GoF Value that
acceptable because if the AVE is less than 0.5, but needs to be met is 0.36.Table 4 describes that the
composite reliability is higher than 0.6, and model is a good fit.
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