Knowledge and human resources management enhance green supply chain management and circular economy performance

Through a survey administered to around 800 environmentally certified organizations and using partial least squares structural equation modelling, this paper studies how the green supply chain management integrates sustainable environmental processes within the traditional supply chain. This study is based on the knowledge-based theory and provides an original perspective of both circular economy and circular economy. The study explores the interconnectedness between knowledge management, green human resource management and green supply chain management and assesses their effects on organizational performance and the diffusion of the circular economy. The results highlight the importance of these linkages together with the crucial role of the circular economy context. This study thus proved that internal commitment and efforts, organizations are conditioned by external forces.