Green Purchasing: Capabilities, Practices and Effects on Firms’ Triple Bottom Line Performance

<jats:p>Sustainability and the concept of environmental concern have become a mainstream matter triggering firms to utilise green opportunities in their supply chain strategy. However, many firms have concentrated sustainability efforts only in their internal operations. They have disregarded the need to scrutinize the sustainability practices of their supply base, by developing the internal green purchasing capabilities and by embracing green purchasing practices for firm sustainability. One of concern for most firms is what green capabilities do the firms need to be equipped with in order to implement the green purchasing practices. Using 163 Malaysian manufacturing firms and PLS technique was used to empirically test the hypotheses. The findings indicate that there is a significant positive effect of green manufacturing, integration, intra-organisational and financial capabilities towards green purchasing practices. The study also revealed that green purchasing practices have a significant positive effect on the firms’ triple bottom line performance.Keywords: Green purchasing capabilities; green purchasing practices; Triple Bottom Line performance.</jats:p>