Operações sustentáveis e desempenho : revisão sistemática e metanálise

Abstract

Sustainability is rapidly emerging as one of the most important topics for business strategy and have been explored in a lot of research lines. However, the relation between sustainable practices and performance shows divergent results and still there are studiesthat can’t prove a direct relation between the variables. Thus, the literature about this issue shows an inconclusive feature, providing opportunity for this search that aimedto determine whether there is a relationship between sustainable operations practices and performance categories and whether there are moderatingacting in this relationship. Sustainable operations practices considered include ecodesign, green supply chain, cleaner production and reverse logistics, while the performance was divided into environmental, economic, operational and organizational.Connect these sustainable operations practices with performance categories there was obtained 16 hypothesis. Due to the goal of this research to seek a theoretical consensus that contributes to the evolution of knowledge about a specific issue, the methodology applied was a systematic review followed by a meta-analysis. The systematic review initially found 3.825 studies of which 37 had the parameters required to perform the meta-analysis and were effectively used.As results, thehypothesis of the relationship between reverse logistics and organizational performance can’t be tested due to insufficient data and, among the others hypotheses, only one was not accepted: the relationship between green supply chain practices and economic performance. About the moderating , they don’t acting in two relationships: ecodesign and operational performance and cleaner production and organizational performance, showing that in these relations there aren’t factors interfering in their results.