Research on the Impact of Sustainable Supply Chain Management on Frugal Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises
From the sustainable supply chain management perspective,this study conducts a quali-tative exploration of 6 enterprises and an empirical test of 295 manufacturing SMEs to analyze the main influencing factors of frugal innovation in manufacturing SMEs.Conclusions are drawn as fol-lows:In the internal management of sustainable supply chain,internal environmental management and internal social responsibility management promote enterprise frugal innovation;In external man-agement of sustainable supply chains,sustainable cooperation between firms and suppliers promotes frugal innovative behavior,but monitoring and assessing supplier sustainable practice does not affect firms'own frugal innovative behavior;Firm size only plays a positive moderating role in the influence of internal management of sustainable supply chains on frugal innovative behavior.
frugal innovationsustainable supply chain managementfirm sizesmall and medi-um-sized manufacturing enterprises