Does R&amp;D intensity promote the adoption of circular supply chain management? Evidence from China

Chen, Xiaohong; Chen, Lujie; Jiang, Mengqi; Yan, Ji

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.10.015

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“…In this sense, this study offers a new angle to investigate the interactions of the circular economy and Industry 4.0 from the perspective of enhancing delivery efficiency using a personnel configuration approach. The findings of our study demonstrate the important role of technology in the circular economy (Chen et al. , 2021b, 2022b).…”

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Enhancing online-to-offline delivery efficiency facilitated by Industry 4.0: a personnel configuration perspective

Dai

Wen

Zhou

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe overuse and scarcity of resources emphasize the importance of the circular economy. The technology facilitated by Industry 4.0 stimulates the implementation of the circular economy that aims to reduce resource use and enhance operational efficiency. This study focuses on enhancing delivery efficiency in an online-to-offline (O2O) context from an Industry 4.0 technology-facilitated personal configuration perspective, that is, comparing in-house and crowdsourced delivery efficiency in China's O2O on-demand food delivery context.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collect 128,152 orders from 38 restaurants of an online restaurant chain in China. The authors adopt multiple regression analysis to examine the delivery efficiency gap between in-house and crowdsourced deliverymen and the determinants of this efficiency gap.FindingsThe findings of this study reveal that crowdsourced deliverymen exhibit higher delivery efficiency, in terms of a shorter delivery time, than in-house deliverymen. In addition, the authors find that platforms providing monetary incentives or implementing late delivery penalties enlarge this efficiency gap. Furthermore, the authors show that external factors, such as working on weekends and bad weather conditions, contribute to the narrowing of this performance efficiency.Practical implicationsThe study's findings suggest that platforms should use advanced technologies facilitated by Industry 4.0 to optimize their personnel configuration to enhance their delivery efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. The effective approaches include using financial incentives and improving working schedules.Originality/valueThe authors' findings contribute to the online fulfillment literature by focusing on delivery efficiency in the O2O context from the Industry 4.0 technology-facilitated personnel configuration perspective. The authors examine how internal and external factors moderate the performance efficiency between these two types of deliverymen.

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundsupporting

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Enhancing online-to-offline delivery efficiency facilitated by Industry 4.0: a personnel configuration perspective

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Zhou

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“…The CE has become central to Chinese policy (McDowall et al ., 2017), and Chinese companies are vigorously pursuing it (Zhu et al ., 2019). China is now faced with how to achieve sustainable and digital development, and Chinese companies are responding well by combining the digital economy with the CE (Tseng et al ., 2018; Chen et al ., 2021).…”

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Guest editorial: The role of Industry 4.0 in enabling circular economy

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Chong²,

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2023

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“…Compared with other reduction strategies, the adoption of cross-industry standards is 'basic' -simple and less resource-intensive. Such basic action, however, is not dominant in mature companies whose practices are often characterized by more formal and complicated approaches, such as collaboration with NGOs, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and strategic alliances (Chen et al, 2021b;Russo and Tencati, 2009). These approaches require substantial investment of time, financial resources and competencies to implement new organizational routines, which companies in the growth stage are not able to provide.…”

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The Impact of Supplier Instability on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance over the Firm Lifecycle: A Social Systems Theory Perspective

Yang

Yan

Jia

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British J of Management

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Managing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the supply chain context requires companies to consider complex issues embedded in their supply chains, one of which is the complexity caused by unstable suppliers. However, prior studies have focused primarily on how supplier instability affects a firm's operational or financial performance. Grounded in social systems theory, we aim to enrich this body of literature by investigating the impact of supplier instability on CSR performance throughout the firm lifecycle. Using a large panel dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2018, we find that the relationship between supplier instability and CSR performance varies throughout a firm's lifecycle. At the growth and maturity stages, supplier instability can negatively affect a firm's external and internal CSR performance, respectively. At the decline stage, this negative relationship is insignificant. Further, we unravel the moderating effects of different complexity reduction practices. This paper has significant implications for both research and practice in the increasingly important domain of CSR management in supply chains.

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Does R&D intensity promote the adoption of circular supply chain management? Evidence from China

Cited by 30 publications

References 118 publications

Enhancing online-to-offline delivery efficiency facilitated by Industry 4.0: a personnel configuration perspective

Enhancing online-to-offline delivery efficiency facilitated by Industry 4.0: a personnel configuration perspective

Guest editorial: The role of Industry 4.0 in enabling circular economy

The Impact of Supplier Instability on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance over the Firm Lifecycle: A Social Systems Theory Perspective

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