CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAMESE LOGISTICS ENTERPRISES: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF GREEN INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility is an important issue towards sustainable development, especially in developing countries such as Vietnam. Most studies have been conducted to explore the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial or organizational performance; however, the environmental aspect has not been much focused on much. Combining the resource-based view theory and the natural resource-based view theory, this study proposed and examined the mediating role of green inclusive leadership in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and environmental performance using partial least squares structural equation modeling. Analytical results from 193 managers of Vietnamese logistics enterprises showed the direct impact of corporate social responsibility on environmental performance, and the indirect impact through green inclusive leadership in the context of Vietnamese logistics enterprises. Some implications and conclusions are given for administrators, experts and policy makers to improve the effectiveness of social responsibility and firm activities for the environmental performance through emphasizing the role of green inclusive leadership.