The mediating role of sustainable supply chain practices in improving the environmental and financial performance of the organization with application on a number of Egyptian industrial organizations

The objective of this study is to analyze the intermediary role of sustainable supply chain practices in improving environmental and financial performance for industrial companies in Egypt.The study identified the motives for implementing the practices of sustainable supply chain in instrumental motives, relational motives and ethical motives. It identified four practices for sustainable supply chain management: sustainable product design, sustainable process design, the supply- side sustainability collaboration and finally demand- side sustainable collaboration.The study also identified performance in the environmental and financial performance dimensions of the organization. To achieve this goal, five hypotheses were developed, Based on the questionnaire developed by the researcher to collect the primary data that serve the purpose of the study, and using the Kronbach Alfa scale was verified the stability of the parameters of the variables of the study, and using the method of modeling structural equations (SEM) to test the hypotheses and model of the study. The study concluded that there is a positive relationship between the motives of interests and the practices of sustainable supply chain on the one hand and the environmental and financial practices and the other on the other. The results of the study rejected the mediator role of these practices between the sustainability motives and the environmental and financial performance of the organization. The study model was validated and accepted.