The Impact of Institutional Pressures, Top Managers’ Posture and Reverse Logistics on Firm Performance
Pearl River Delta (PRD) is one of the most developed districts in China and the most important manufacturing base of electronics products in the world, but it is also one of the most seriously polluted areas. Reverse logistics has strategic importance to cope with the pollution of environment. Organizations often adopt reverse logistics practices due to institutional pressures. Three institutional pressures may influence top managers’ posture to implement reverse logistics practices. The government, competitor and consumer pressures are explicitly in this study. We propose and empirically test a model using data collected from 209 manufacturing companies in the PRD. The results show that government, competitor and consumer have a significant positive influence on top managers’ posture to implant reverse logistics practices. However, we only find significant positive impact of top managers’ posture on waste material logistics practice, do not find significant impact on returned logistics practice. And the waste material logistics practice has significant positive impact on both economic and social performance. Conversely, the study finds that returned logistics practices negatively impacts firm’s economic performance.
Reverse logistics Institutional pressures Top managers posture Performance
Xiande Zhao Fei Ye Carol Prahinski
Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Faculty of Business Administration, The Ch School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1122
国际会议
The Third International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management(第三届运营与供应链管理国际会议)
武汉
英文
206-211
2009-07-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）