Environmental Supply Chain Collaboration:Exploring the Moderating Effects of Location and Sourcing

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Increasing awareness of climate change has deeply altered the competitive landscape of the automobile industry and automakers have been pressured to produce more ecofriendly products. In this context, the decisions of co- location and sourcing that characterize the inter-firm relationship between automakers and their first-tier suppliers in the production organization are critical. Using as a unit of the analysis 222 dyadic relationships, this study examines the moderating effects of the co-location decision of being in a supplier park and the decision of using multiple sourcing on the relationship between environmental R&D cooperation and the production of ecofriendly products. Ecofriendly products are defined, for empirical purpose, as the production of vehicles with lower CO2 emissions over time. The findings suggest that the effects of environmental R&D cooperation on performance are amplifying under the presence of using multiple sourcing. Opposite as we argue, the decision of co-location in supplier parks jeopardizes the outcomes derived from environmental R&D cooperation, resulting in a production of vehicles with high CO2 emissions