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What is next? The effect of reverse logistics adoption on digitalization and inter-organizational collaboration
Publicated to:International Journal Of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. 53 (5-6): 563-588 - 2023-08-01 53(5-6), DOI: 10.1108/IJPDLM-06-2022-0173. 2
Authors: Rasool, F; Greco, M; Morales-Alonso, G; Carrasco-Gallego, R
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Purpose: This study aims to examine and understand the impact of reverse logistics adoption on firms' digitalization and collaboration activities. Specifically, leveraging the knowledge-based view, this study examines how adopting sustainable logistic practices (reverse logistics) prepares firms to embrace digitalization and encourages them to collaborate with other organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The study used longitudinal survey data from two waves (2017 and 2019) from the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research. The authors used the negative binomial regression analyses to test the impact of reverse logistics adoption on the digitalization and inter-organizational collaboration dependent count variables. Findings: The study's findings highlight the usefulness of reverse logistics in enabling digitalization and inter-organizational collaboration. The results show that the firms investing in sustainable supply chains will be better positioned to nurture digitalization and inter-organizational collaboration. Practical implications: For resource-bound managers, this study provides an important insight into prioritizing activities by highlighting how reverse logistics can facilitate digitalization and collaboration. The study demonstrates that the knowledge generated by reverse logistics adoption can be an essential pillar and enabler toward achieving firms' digitalization and collaboration goals. Originality/value: The study is among the first to examine the effect of reverse logistics adoption on firm activities that are not strictly associated with the circular economy (digitalization and collaboration). Utilizing the knowledge-based view, this study reports on the additional benefits of reverse logistics implementation previously not discussed in the literature.
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The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 65/407, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Management.
From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 3.02. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)
Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-10, the following number of citations:
- WoS: 14
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors
This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy.
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (CARRASCO GALLEGO, RUTH).