Purpose – This research aims to extend the “collaborative paradigm” proposed by others in prior research beyond a supply chain's core operations. To date, this paradigm has generated relatively little empirical research on peripheral, non‐core areas such the natural environment. Antecedents (both plant‐level and supply chain characteristics) of green supply chain practices (GSCP) are examined. Among possible antecedents, prior research pointed to supply chain integration – both logistical (tactical level) and technological (strategic level) – as a potentially important determinant of green practices.Design/methodology/approach – Green practices are defined along the two dimensions of environmental collaboration and monitoring. The empirical analysis used data from 84 plants in North America surveyed in 2002. Validity and reliability of scales for new and existing constructs were assessed through factor analysis. Hierarchical linear regression was used to test the hypotheses for the antecedents of GSCP.Fin...

Extending green practices across the supply chain: the impact of upstream and downstream integration

This study reviews quantitative empirical studies of change recipients’ reactions to organizational change. The authors reviewed studies published between 1948 and 2007, out of which 79 met the cri...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Vakola/publication/241652311_Change_Recipients%27_Reactions_to_Organizational_Change_A_60Year_Review_of_Quantitative_Studies/links/0046352010ac4ac816000000.pdf

Change Recipients’ Reactions to Organizational Change: A 60-Year Review of Quantitative Studies

http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2012/12/The-Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing-Effect-in-Management.pdf

The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management

Work Stress and Employee Health A Multidisciplinary Review

Purchasing organizations are exposed to risk in their interactions with suppliers, whether it is recognized and managed, addressed in a cursory manner, or altogether ignored. In order to understand the supply risk that exists, purchasing organizations can proactively assess the probability and impact of supply risk in advance, or reactively discover risk after a detrimental event occurs. The purpose of this study is to explore, analyze, and derive common themes on supply risk assessment techniques. Findings from this research indicate that purchasing organizations can assess supply risk with techniques that focus on addressing supplier quality issues, improving supplier processes, and reducing the likelihood of supply disruptions. From an agency theory perspective, these risk assessment techniques facilitate the obtaining of information by purchasing organizations to verify supplier behaviors, promoting goal congruence between buying and selling firms, and reducing outcome uncertainty associated with inbound supply.

An analysis of supply risk assessment techniques

Outsourcing affects thousands of companies and employees every year. Recent studies indicate that 85 per cent of all companies outsource at least one function generating billions of dollars in outsourcing contracts (ElmutiElute, KathwalaKithara & Monippallil, 1995). Transportation is one of outsourcing's biggest players. Many outsourcing attempts have proved unsuccessful and recent articles blame these failures on failed outsourcing relationships. This paper addresses these failed relationships and suggests two possible solutions to the problem. The first solution is to diagnose the relationship from both sides of the contract. The second suggestion is to engage agency theory to help design the types of contracts and relationships necessary to provide and support an environment of trust.

Using Agency Theory to Design Successful Outsourcing Relationships

This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment that tested the effects of an empowerment intervention among unit managers of a large trucking company. The intervention was designed to increase participants' beliefs in their personal control and self-efficacy with regard to key aspects of their jobs. Individuals who managed geographically dispersed profit centres were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (N = 38) or a no-treatment control group (N = 30). The intervention significantly increased perceptions of maintenance control and impact at four months after the intervention, but only for those managers who felt that their supervisors were supportive. The intervention also improved archival measures of unit performance and affected work attitudes (depending upon the level of perceived supervisory support). The data point out the key role that perceived supervisor social support plays when implementing such organizational change interventions.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/joms_711.pdf?abstractid=1065898&mirid=1

The Effects of Empowerment on Attitudes and Performance: The Role of Social Support and Empowerment Beliefs

An Experimental Evaluation of a Control Intervention to Alleviate Job-Related Stress

In the past decade, thousands of employees have been affected by outsourcing. It is estimated that, in 2001 American companies alone, over $300 billion will be spent on this type of organizational change (Greco, 1997). Despite outsourcing's high profile, very little has been done to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of the outsourced employees or to determine ways to ease their transition ( Kessler et al., 1999, Due, 1992, Khosrowpour et al., 1996, Benson, 1998). Our research analyses employee attitudes and behaviour both before and after outsourcing in the transportation industry. The type of outsourcing studied was one in which current employees in the companies' fleet operations are taken over by a major trucking firm which is acquiring responsibility for the transportation function. In a survey, eighty truck drivers were questioned about their pre- and post-acquisition attitudes. Contrary to what managers might predict, a satisfied and involved workforce could prove to be the most difficult to...

Mary S. Logan

Papers

Using Agency Theory to Design Successful Outsourcing Relationships

The Effects of Empowerment on Attitudes and Performance: The Role of Social Support and Empowerment Beliefs

An Experimental Evaluation of a Control Intervention to Alleviate Job-Related Stress

Outsourcing a satisfied and committed workforce: a trucking industry case study