Green Low-Carbon Transition in the Automotive Supply Chain: An Integrated Sustainability Framework

As the fast-moving of global climate change, automobiles industry has to go through a really important change in pattern, cannot just depend on simple operational efficacies, needs a full move to a Green low-carbon transformation (GLCT).Automotive industry belongs to the greenhouse gas emission of the globe, more importantly itself is quite complex and many supplies of chains so it's very obvious that we need a comprehensive sustainability strategy.But the current literature tends to break up the transition process, concentrating on individual aspects like green procurement or reverse logistics instead of giving an integrated structural model.This study closes this gap by putting forward and verifying an ISF designed for the automotive supply chain.Utilizing a hybrid method of literature review and structural equation modeling (SEM) on the data from 358 automotive companies, an investigation on the influence and the interconnection between regulatory force and technology, and the supply chain cooperation was made.From the result, we can see even technology innovation plays an important role but it is still depended on the level of supply chain integration to a great deal.More specifically, there is a green decoupling that occurs initially, it will hold off on financial performance until there is a long-term dividend to sustainability.The paper also contributes to the literature by providing a strong theoretical model which incorporates institutional theory with the resource-based view (RBV).The policy recommendations can be useful to the industry players and the policymakers who want to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.