The impact of institutional pressures, top managers' posture and reverse logistics on performance—Evidence from China

2013

179 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Based on institutional theory, this study investigates the effects of three institutional pressures on top managers' posture towards reverse logistics implementation: government, customer, and competitor pressures. Survey data from 209 manufacturers of Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China reveal that institutional pressures have a statistically significant positive influence on top managers' posture towards reverse logistics implementation. In addition, while top managers' posture is strongly related to product recovery, it is not related to product return. We also find that product recovery has a significant positive effect on a firm's economic and environmental performance. Conversely, the results suggest that product return negatively affects a firm's economic performance and has no effect on environmental performance. We highlight the managerial implications.

Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d2cef876bb847108b599fe015ba6e9ca3c4df04f

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Institutional Pressures on Green Supply Chain Management and Firm Performance: Top Management Roles and Social Capital (2017, background): “, [15], which investigated the effect of institutional pressures, posture of top managers and reverse logistics on performance; and Lee [16], which investigated the role of social capital in the GSCM and performance.”
• Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future (2015, methodology): “…2009), engineering economics techniques (Krikke, 2010), combining input–output analysis and Laplace transforms (Bogataj & Grubbström, 2013), theory of production frontier (Lai et al., 2013), institutional theory (Ye et al., 2013), and novel neighborhood rough set approach (Bai & Sarkis, 2013).”
• The relationship between green supply chain management and performance: A meta-analysis of empirical evidences in Asian emerging economies (2017, result): “Our results con fi rm previous studies arguing that successful adoption of GSCM practices by a company depends on the intra-organizational environmental management (Kuei et al., 2013; Youn et al., 2013).”