A Study to Explore the Link between Green Purchasing Initiatives and Business Performance

Integrating environmental management into the purchasing function of an organization, called green purchasing, is not unfamiliar in today's world (Hamner, 2006). As more and more consumers are expected to be aware of environmental issues in this decade (Carter and Narsimhan, 1998), organizations would consistently be implementing environmentally conscious purchasing practice, which would endeavor to reduce the generation of pollution and waste at the source and increase the volume of recyclable, reusable, and environment friendly materials in the product content. Of course this would have to be done without sacrificing the quality performance of the end product or service that the organization is producing (Min and Galle, 2001).