Abstract
The micro-foundation of how environmental regulations will affect firms’ adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices remains unclear in the literature. This study examines whether entrepreneurship and resource commitment will mediate the relationship between environmental regulation intensity and the adoption of GSCM practices. Based on a sample of 231 manufacturers, this paper demonstrates that environmental regulation intensity has no direct effect on GSCM practices but has indirect effect on GSCM practices through the entrepreneurship and resource commitment of firms. Drawing on institutional theory, our study contributes to a better understanding of the effect of environmental regulations on firms’ GSCM by unpeeling the micro-foundations of firm-specific factors in terms of entrepreneurship and resource commitment.