Feng, M, Yu, W, Chavez, R et al. (2 more authors) (2023) How do institutional forces affect firm agility through organisational justice? Differences between Chinese and foreign firms in China. Production Planning and Control. ISSN 0953-7287
Abstract
While institutional environment is increasingly affecting supply chains, the effects of institutional forces on firm agility remains largely unexplored. This paper integrates institutional theory with the organisational justice and agility literature to explore whether institutional forces (i.e. legal protection, the importance of guanxi, and government support) affect agility of local and foreign firms in China through organisational justice. Results from structural equation modelling of survey data from 241 manufacturers in China demonstrate that Chinese firms gained agility through procedural, distributive, and interactional justice created by the three institutional forces. Gaining less justice from all three institutional forces (especially guanxi), the agility of foreign firms relied on only distributive justice. Legal protection and guanxi worked for Chinese firms, whereas foreign firms are somewhat disadvantaged in this regard and relied mostly on government support to provide distributive justice for building agility.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Institutional forces; organisational justice; firm agility; firm ownership; China |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2023 15:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 May 2023 22:37 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09537287.2023.2170293 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195835 |