Improving reverse supply chain performance: The role of supply chain leadership and governance mechanisms. (10th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mokhtar, Ahmad Rais Mohamad; Genovese, Andrea; Brint, Andrew; Kumar, Niraj
• Is Part Of: Journal of cleaner production. Volume 216(2019)
• Page Start: 42
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2019-04-10
• Subjects: Supply chain leadership -- Governance mechanisms -- Suppliers' performance -- Buyer-supplier relationship -- Reverse supply chains; Factory and trade waste -- Management -- Periodicals; Manufactures -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Déchets industriels -- Gestion -- Périodiques; Usines -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Périodiques; 628.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.045
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0959-6526

Abstract

Abstract: Recently, a growing interest has been devoted to the role of buying firms in promoting sustainability across supply chains. However, relatively little attention has been given to how the behaviour of a buying firm affects the performance of reverse supply chains. Within this context, this paper investigates the role of Supply Chain Leadership styles on suppliers' performance dimensions related to reverse product flows. Furthermore, the mediating role of two governance mechanisms (namely trust and legal-legitimate power) on this relationship is examined. This study employs structural equation modelling to analyse data collected from 190 manufacturing companies in Malaysia. The paper concludes that transformational and transactional leaderships are significant and positive contributors to suppliers' reverse supply chain performance; trust and power significantly mediate these relationships.