| Creators: |
Maas, Steffen and Schuster, Tassilo and Hartmann, Evi |
| Title: |
Stakeholder Pressures, Environmental Practice Adoption and Economic Performance in the German Third-party Logistics Industry - A Contingency Perspective |
| Item Type: |
Article or issue of a publication series |
| Journal or Series Title: |
Journal of Business Economics |
| Page Range: |
pp. 167-201 |
| Date: |
2018 |
| Divisions: |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Abstract (ENG): |
This study explores how companies adopt environmental practices when they are exposed to stakeholder pressures and how those practices affect economic performance within the German third-party logistics industry. The relationships are tested against a random sample of 192 German third-party logistics providers by using a higher-order partial least squares approach. The study reveals that perceived stakeholder pressures, especially internal, market, and regulatory pressures, strongly influence third-party logistics providers’ environmental practice adoption and that environmental practice adoption improves economic performance. Moreover, by introducing complexity of service offerings as an important firm-related contextual variable, the study advances our knowledge as it highlights that companies with basic service offerings can benefit more from adopting environmental practices than companies with advanced service offerings. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Environmental sustainability ; Third-party logistics ; Partial least squares ; Contingency perspective |
| Citation: |
Maas, Steffen and Schuster, Tassilo and Hartmann, Evi
(2018)
Stakeholder Pressures, Environmental Practice Adoption and Economic Performance in the German Third-party Logistics Industry - A Contingency Perspective.
Journal of Business Economics, 88 (2).
pp. 167-201.
ISSN 0044-2372
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