International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 7, No 5 (2018): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

The Influence of Institutional Policies and Information Technology Adoption towards Sustainable Logistics Transportation

Nur Fadiah Mohd Zawawi (Universiti Malaysia Kelantan)
Sazali Abd Wahab (Putra Business School (PBS), Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Suzana Idayu Wati Osman (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Ahmad Shaharudin Abdul Latiff (Putra Business School (PBS), Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Syed Ali Fazal (Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan Locked Bag 36, City Campus, Pengkalan Chepa, 16100 Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2018

Abstract

Logistics is the movement engine for cargos and merchandises both for domestics and international. People complete their business process through logistics transportation, especially to move cargos and merchandises reaching their end users around the world, hence transportation also can be considered as the backbone to business supply chain. Unfortunately, their operations produced negative impacts to our environment and society. Thus, business activities nowadays goes beyond sustaining economic sustainability solely. They are concern dearly on the environmental quality and human well-being as well. The objective of this paper is to review the influence of institutional policies and information technology (IT) adoption towards sustainable logistics transportations in the economic, environmental and social performance. Through understanding of Institutional Theory and Resource-Based View (RBV) Theory, institutional policies and IT adoption can be considered as the enabler for logistics performance and their sustainability. This paper expects to provide new insights to the logistics practitioners and policy makers in sustaining logistics sector in parallel with todays world demand, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

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Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...