AMBIDEXTROUS SUSTAINABILITY AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF POTENTIAL NON-ECONOMIC BENEFITS AS MEDIATION PATHWAYS

Journal Title: Polish Journal of Management Studies - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 2

Abstract

Due to the tensions created between short term economic benefits with longer term nature of environmental and social benefits within sustainability management in organization, another convincing evidences need to be introduced as drivers to encourage managers in sustainability implementation. This paper aims to discuss the effect of implementing ambidextrous sustainability to organizational performance, through mediating role of organizational image, employee satisfaction, and sustainability performance as potential non-economic benefits obtained. Data were collected from web-based self administered survey in a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional setting. The main sample were chosen by purposive sampling method and consisted of 216 manufacturing organizations in Indonesia. SPSS 21.0 and LISREL 8.8 were utilized to analyze the data. The results showed that ambidextrous sustainability has a direct and positive significant effect on organizational image, employee satisfaction, and sustainability performance. Additionally, this research also found no significant direct relationship between ambidextrous sustainability and organizational performance. However, it was mediated by sustainability performance as the first pathway and altogether by employee satisfaction, organizational performance, and sustainability performance as the second pathway. This paper is one of the very few studies to empirically tested the influence of ambidextrous sustainability implementation in manufacturing organizations.<br/><br/>

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Fendy Susanto, Willy Arafah, Zulkifli Husin

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  • EP ID EP248690
  • DOI 10.17512/pjms.2017.16.2.24
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Fendy Susanto, Willy Arafah, Zulkifli Husin (2017). AMBIDEXTROUS SUSTAINABILITY AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF POTENTIAL NON-ECONOMIC BENEFITS AS MEDIATION PATHWAYS. Polish Journal of Management Studies, 16(2), 278-289. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-248690