Presenting an Integrated Model to Explain the Effects of Both Lean and Green Supply Chain on Corporate Sustainability

The aim of this research is to theoretically integrate the lean and green concepts in the context of supply chain management and to present a model to explain the effects of the lean and green concepts on corporate sustainability. The current study conducted a comprehensive review of the existing research to identify operational dimensions for each research concept: including lean supply chain, green supply chain and corporate sustainability. Data were collected from 255 medium-sized Iranian food industry companies. Partial Least Square technique was applied to examine the study model.Results confirmed the core idea of the research: The findings indicated that the green supply chain has significant direct effects on four dimensions of corporate sustainability: The economic dimension, the social dimension, the environmental dimension, and the governance dimension. Furthermore, results affirmed the impacts of lean supply chain on all dimensions of corporate sustainability except governance. Moreover, data supported the influence of lean on green supply chain in Iranian food industry.