Impact Of Institutional Pressures Research Articles

Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective

ABSTRACT The lack of clear explanations about the impact of institutional pressures on adopting Circular Economy (CE) practices in regions is justified by the early stage of CE development. The conditions of CE implementation need to be explored to better understand the drivers of successful transformation. We employed a neo-institutional approach, which encompasses institutional isomorphism and regional absorptive capacity, to elucidate factors determining the extent of CE implementation at the regional level. We hypothesize that normative pressure leads to a more advanced adoption of new policy concepts. As a research method, we used content analysis and coding derived from institutional isomorphism and absorptive capacity, applied to all regional strategies in Poland between 2020 and 2021. The novelty of this study resides in its contribution to elucidating the regional implementation of CE concepts and discerning patterns of institutional adaptation. The study demonstrates that establishing a normative environment should precede the anticipation of adopting novel policy ideas.

Impact of institutional pressures and security on blockchain technology adoption and organization performance: an empirical study

Impact of institutional pressures and security on blockchain technology adoption and organization performance: an empirical study

The impact of institutional pressures on corporate social responsibility and green marketing adoption: an empirical approach in Vietnam banking industry

PurposeInstitutional pressure and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are gaining increasing recognition in scholarly works; however, there is an apparent and unsettled relationship between these concepts and the concept of green marketing adoption (GMA) that influences efforts to gain a relative competitive advantage (RCA). This study is aimed at examining the roles of institutional pressure and CSR on GMA and RCA and proposes recommendations for promoting green marketing management and CSC in the banking industry in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, partial least squares structural equation modeling is utilized to investigate the evolution of the structural model, while the hypotheses are evaluated using structural equation modeling (SEM). The data are scrutinized from 288 banking employees through an online survey.FindingsThe results show that the components of institutional pressure exert a significant impact on GMA and RCA, but the level and type of this impact differ. Additionally, the mediating role of the CSR variable in this relationship is revealed. Under the influence of institutional pressure, companies tend to increase their implementation of CSR activities, thereby promoting their GMA and RCA.Originality/valueThis study offers both theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, this study adds to the extant evidence concerning the significance of CSR integration and institutional pressure to the advancement of GMA. In addition, maintaining a focus on fostering holistic GMA practices has enabled the banking industry in Vietnam to achieve an RCA.

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on BIM Identity Formation in the Construction Industry and the Mediating Role of Perceived Usefulness

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on BIM Identity Formation in the Construction Industry and the Mediating Role of Perceived Usefulness

Impact of Institutional Pressures on Socially Responsible Collective Action Behaviors for Major Water Transfer Projects

Impact of Institutional Pressures on Socially Responsible Collective Action Behaviors for Major Water Transfer Projects

Impact of Institutional Pressures on External Program Manager Involvement: Evidence from Large Projects in China

Impact of Institutional Pressures on External Program Manager Involvement: Evidence from Large Projects in China

Experimental evaluation of using pyrolyzed carbon black derived from waste tires as additive towards sustainable concrete

Waste tires (WTs) are one of the most critical environmental problems worldwide. Since the WTs cannot be landfilled or burned, innovative solutions and proper solid waste management are needed. Therefore, several methods have been proposed for WTs treatment. Among these methods, the pyrolysis process is considered the most favorable. Pyrolysis is a process of converting WTs in absence of oxygen into pyrogas, fuel oil, and a by-product, which is pyrolyzed carbon black (PCB). To introduce the idea of eco-friendly and sustainable concrete, it is proposed to use PCB as an additive in concrete structures. In this experimental investigation, PCB samples are obtained from a local pyrolyzed WTs plant. Several concrete properties are investigated considering different mixes of different weight percentage ratios of PCB to cement (PCB/c); 0% (control sample), 3%, 3.5%, 4%, 4.5%, 5%, 7%, and 10%. Typically, fixed amounts of cement, water, sand, aggregate, and superplasticizer are prepared following international preparation standards, and then, mixed with the aforementioned PCB/c ratios. Afterward, an array of mechanical tests are performed investigating properties enhancements. These tests are slump, compressive strength, and abrasion resistance, along with water absorption. Results show a noticeable increase in the compressive strength for tested samples of 29.3 and 38.4 MPa were obtained at a ratio of 4% for 7 and 28 days, respectively. This is combined with a slight reduction of slump results; however; slump values are still within standard limits for most of the mixes. In addition, abrasion resistance results suggest a vital improvement in the PCB/c mixes. Also, water absorption measurements reflect enhancement of concrete mixes up to a specific percentage of PCB. Amongst tested PCB/c ratios, the study highlights the optimal value to be between 3% and 5%. In addition, a multi-level framework on the impact of institutional pressures on the adoption of PCB as an additive to cement has been addressed to rationalize and raise awareness towards the applicability of such a feasible approach. Thus, the overall results reflect the promising horizons of using PCB as an improving additive material in concrete mixes.

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on the Use and Maintenance of E-Commerce in Brazilian Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on the Use and Maintenance of E-Commerce in Brazilian Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)

A Study on the Impact of Institutional Pressures on Utilization Level of Green Supply Chain Management and Green Supply Chain Management Performance

A Study on the Impact of Institutional Pressures on Utilization Level of Green Supply Chain Management and Green Supply Chain Management Performance

The influence of institutional pressures and organization culture on Supplier Social Compliance Management Systems

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to use institutional theory to develop the constructs of institutional pressures for social compliance and argue for a positive relationship between institutional pressures and Supplier Social Compliance Management System (SSCMS). Moreover, the authors theorize that the impact of institutional pressures on SSCMS is moderated by the supplier’s organizational culture. This is done in a particularly salient context, which is apparel manufacturing in a developing country.Design/methodology/approachThe hypothesized model is tested using data of 164 suppliers from the apparel manufacturing sector. PLS-based structural equation modeling is used to test the direct and multi-group moderation hypotheses.FindingsEmpirical examination provides evidence that institutional pressures have a positive impact on supplier social compliance and the types of organizational culture have varied moderation effects.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is based on cross-sectional data from one industry. Future research should collect data from diverse sectors in different countries.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that consistent pressures from various stakeholders can increase supplier social compliance. In addition, the partial evidence for moderation effect of organizational culture indicates that supplier’s internal value system’s alignment with social compliance pressures plays an important role in determining how supplier acts on social compliance initiatives.Originality/valueThe issue of suppliers’ adoption of social compliance management systems has become prominent as a consequence of the shifting of manufacturing to developing countries. However, comprehensive frameworks explaining antecedents of adoption of SSCMS using large-scale empirical data are limited. In addition, findings on the relationship between supplier social sustainability practices and their antecedents are inconsistent.

Pathways for Sustainable Supply Chain Performance—Evidence from a Developing Country, Malaysia

Malaysia has recently started to adopt sustainable business best practices to benefit companies, environment and stakeholders. Therefore, this study demonstrates pathways to sustainable supply chain triple bottom line performance derived from linkages of institutional pressures (IP) and organizational identity (OI) to environment and social sustainable practices. It shows that the superordinate goal of sustainable supply chain management is met in spite of unyielding external pressures and desirable OI driving the unequivocal environmental and responsible social practices of firms. A survey approach was adopted to gather the data required for this study. A total of 118 completed questionnaires were received from respondents, who were managers and senior executives in supply chain management (SCM) in Malaysia. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with partial least squares (PLS-SEM) version 3.0. Our findings showed that all hypothesized relationships are significant except both process- and market-based social practices could not directly impact economic performance. This is in sharp contrast to environmental practices. However, the significant linkage between social practices and social performance is a pathway for the former to economic performance. Therefore, the economic benefits derived from social practices are salvaged through its performance outcomes. The novel and useful impact of institutional pressures on sustainable supply chain practices are also unearthed.

Impact of Institutional Pressures on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors for the Environment: Evidence from Megaprojects

A brisk building boom of megaprojects leads to a wide range of environmental problems, particularly in developing countries such as China. To prevent environmental problems effectively, megaprojects require proactive environmental initiatives based on individual, voluntary, and discretionary behaviors, which are also known as organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment (OCBEs). The OCBEs (e.g., sharing knowledge to prevent pollution, making suggestions to minimize waste) play an important role in improving megaproject environmental performance. However, this line of research is still in its infancy and the institutional-psychological mechanism leading megaproject practitioners to engage in OCBEs is largely unexplored. To fill this gap, this paper presents an individual-level analysis that investigates how institutional pressures impact project practitioners’ OCBEs according to the survey data collected from China’s megaprojects. The results obtained by partial least-squares analysis indicate that both mimetic and normative pressures have a significant impact on OCBEs, and such relationships are partially mediated by organizational support. Nevertheless, this paper did not find evidence for a significant impact from coercive pressures. These findings provide a new insight into making use of institutional forces to stimulate the emergence of OCBEs, improving the environmental performance in megaprojects.

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on Green Supply Chain Management and Firm Performance: Top Management Roles and Social Capital

This study investigates the impact of three institutional pressures, namely government, customer, and competitor pressures, on the environmental and operational performance of firms. These three institutional pressures are examined by implementing green supply chain management, considering the role of top management and studying social capital between buyers and suppliers in the supply chain. Data were collected through an electronic mail survey from buyer firms in the manufacturing industry in Korea. With 241 complete and usable responses, we used structural equation modeling to test our hypotheses. Our findings revealed that the majority of our hypotheses were supported, which is in line with the existing literature. However, the impact of coercive pressure on top management support and the impact of structural social capital on performance were found to be insignificant. The major contribution of our study is that it broadens the framework of green supply chain management (GSCM) by integrating major and recent constructs in the GSCM theory, while also providing instructive managerial implications through empirical evidence.

The Adoption Drivers of Web-Based B2B Systems

The purpose of this research is to examine the drivers of Web-based B2B systems adoption from an institutional perspective by means of comparison between durable and nondurable goods-producing industries. A questionnaire survey was developed to collect data from manufacturing firms. Structural Equation Modeling using EQS was conducted to analyze the data. Results revealed that the durability characteristic of goods produced plays a moderating role in the impact of institutional pressures on the top management support of Web-based B2B systems adoption. Results also indicated that top management support, and B2B relationship quality have a direct impact on the extent of adoption and use of Web-based B2B systems. The present study contributes to the continuing discussion about why organizations respond differently to institutional pressures and vary in the level of use of Web-based B2B applications.

Do institutional effects matter? The impact of institutional pressures on HQ relocation decisions

Building on prior research, I investigate theoretically and empirically the institutional factors that push top managers to relocate HQ units overseas. To this end, I discuss how coercive, isomorph...

Structure and Responsibilities of Corporate Boards in Libyan Commercial Banks: Insights from Institutional Theory.

Research Purpose: This research uses a new institutional sociology perspective to investigate how different types of institutional pressures have influenced structure and responsibilities of corporate boards in Libyan commercial banks (LCBs).Design/Methodology/Approach: For this purpose, two pieces ofempirical work, semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire survey were conducted respectively. The interviews were held with a number of stakeholders to ascertain their views on corporate governance in LCBs. A questionnaire survey were conducted to examine whether the ownership structure or any other factors have affected the governance practices of these banks and whether certain features have been institutionalized.Research Findings: The findings illustrate that different types of institutional pressures are shaping the current corporate boards practices and reforms in LCBs, especially coercive pressure from the Libyan Bank Law requirements and the Central Bank of Libya (CBL). The influences of these institutional pressures, to some extent, are deferent between LCBs according to the ownership structure, making some differences in responding to institutional pressures, and thus in corporate boards practices.Research limitations: the limitations are concerned with the research methods used in this research. For example, some participants in the interviews or questionnaire survey may have misinterpreted or not understood some of the questions because they are not familiar with them and do not want to show their lack of knowledge and thus they may not provide realistic answers. Moreover, in such research methods, the analysis of respondents’ answers depends, to some extent, on the researcher’s perspective and assessment, which can be more impressionistic and subjective. All these limitations mentioned above must be taken into account when using these findings.Research Implications: This research provides empirical evidence for understanding the New Institutional Sociology perspective of how different types of institutional pressures (coercive, normative and mimetic pressures) influence and shape the board practices in LCBs. This research suggests new avenues of research by focusing more on the impact of institutional pressures over the institutionalizing process of board practices and corporate governance practices.Practical Implications: This research helps the CBL as a regulator and policy maker of LCBs by identifying institutional factors affecting corporate governance practices in LCBs, and suggest how these practices can be improved.Originality/Value: The main contribution made by this research is the use of a new institutional sociology perspective as a theoretical framework to interpret the findings, since such a perspective has not been used frequently by researchers in the corporate governance literature. In this regard, the research provides a general understanding of how different types of institutional pressures (coercive, normative and mimetic pressures) influence and shape the current practices of corporate governance in LCBs. Moreover, it provides evidence about whether such institutional pressures influence LCBs similarly or differently according to their different ownership structure.

The Impact of External Drivers on Women Entrepreneurs Perception towards Supplier Performance in Nigerian SME Practices: The Mediating Effect of Enforcement Mechanisms

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the influence of government policies, customers, competitors as a driver and to some extent interventions to women entrepreneurship motivation in relation to its impact on social enforcement mechanism and supplier performance. The environment where women embark on entrepreneurial activities was articulated as one of the conditioned factors. Coupled with the harsh credit facilities and segregated opportunity prevailing itself to curtailed the untold hardships faced by women entrepreneurs for the success of their respective businesses which is not far from SME. This in turn influences the women entrepreneurs towards utilization of the available governance mechanism in nurturing their channel network relationship in achieving supplier performance. Even with burgeon of empirical investigation of the impact of institutional pressures on environmental practices, how these drivers affects social assets towards realization of supplier performance remains unclear. Social enforcement is seen as one of the alternatives used to curtailed supplier opportunism in realization of superior supplier performance. How does the social enforcement enhance supplier performance as a result of institutional pressures in the Nigerian women’s micro, small and medium scale enterprise is still novel and unexplored?

The impact of institutional pressures on supplier integration and financial performance: Evidence from China

With the rapid development of Chinese manufacturing industry and economy, there is an increasing emphasis on the Chinese institutional environment. In this study, we examine the impact of the three aspects of institutional pressures – normative, mimetic, and coercive – on the two dimensions of supplier integration – system and process – and their impact in turn on financial performance. We test the relationships with data collected from 617 manufacturers in China. Our results show that normative and mimetic pressures are positively related to both system and process integration; while coercive pressures are only positively related to process integration and not significantly related to system integration. The results also indicate that both system and process integration have a positive impact on financial performance. By developing and testing a theoretical model about institutional pressures, supplier integration, and financial performance in the context of the Chinese manufacturing industry, this study contributes to both the institutional and supply chain management literature, as well as providing a better understanding of Chinese manufacturing practices.

The impact of institutional pressures, top managers' posture and reverse logistics on performance—Evidence from China

Abstract Based on institutional theory, this study investigates the effects of three institutional pressures on top managers' posture towards reverse logistics implementation: government, customer, and competitor pressures. Survey data from 209 manufacturers of Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China reveal that institutional pressures have a statistically significant positive influence on top managers' posture towards reverse logistics implementation. In addition, while top managers' posture is strongly related to product recovery, it is not related to product return. We also find that product recovery has a significant positive effect on a firm's economic and environmental performance. Conversely, the results suggest that product return negatively affects a firm's economic performance and has no effect on environmental performance. We highlight the managerial implications.

The Impact of Institutional Pressures on Employee Performance Management Systems in Higher Education in the Low Countries

As a result of the 2008 financial crisis, governments' budgets for higher education and research have come under pressure. In the aftermath of the crisis, higher education institutions are likely to face significant budget constraints, as governments and society became considerably more demanding concerning the level and amount of research output to be produced. The need for increased efficiency and effectiveness pushes these institutions to consider the adoption of employee performance management systems. Starting from the contextually based HRM theory framework and institutional theory, this study examined the institutional factors associated with academic units' adoption of employee performance management systems in two institutions of higher education in the Low Countries in 2009. The results show that coercive pressures are a significant predictor of whether the academic unit adopted an employee performance management system. The results also demonstrate that the presence of an HRM department and complementary human resource management practices are associated with an increased likelihood of the presence of employee performance management systems in academic units.