Public administration strategies that stimulate reverse logistics within the construction industry: a conceptual typology

Abstract

PurposeReverse logistics (RL) is a waste revaluation process aimed at reintroducing once-used materials back into the production cycle. Public administration (PA) plays a strong role in influencing the implementation of RL in the construction industry through policy and laws. While much research identifies PA as an important driver in RL, no research yet describes how this occurs.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review was conducted on the theme PA in RL with 93 relevant publications retrieved.FindingsSix strategies used by PA to promote RL were extracted: (1) legislation, (2) government subsidies, (3) landfill disposal fee, (4) government inspection, (5) use in public construction works and (6) penalties and fines. Moreover, a typology built on these six strategies was developed, mapping 15 interactional relationships between strategies, according to three levels of influence: (1) encouragement (2) requirement and (3) regulation.Practical implicationsIt was found that legislation and government subsidies prove to be the more effective strategies, with the remaining strategies greatly neglected. Importantly, however, this study reveals that a combination of strategies are most effective when appropriately combined.Originality/valueThis study confirms the importance of PA in RL, in construction, while documenting the extent of current research. The resulting proposed typology, along with 15 identified future research priorities, is expected to be of value to academics and policy makers looking to advance understanding in this domain.

Role of Reverse Logistics Activities in the Recycling of Used Plastic Bottled Water Waste Management

“…According to this survey, the legislative drive aids in the improvement of waste management to boost company performance. This study's findings are consistent with [58,60,61], which suggested that businesses are affected by regulatory and environmental legislation. The chi-square statistic would seem in the value column right portion of "Pearson chisquare" in the result shown in Table 14.…”

Information-centric influence strategies for quality assurance in reverse logistics supply chains: external stakeholders' perspective

“…This result corroborates Huang et al (2018)'s findings that regulatory bodies' monitoring plays a significant role in promoting waste management in China. Brandão et al (2021a) posited that government incentivizing schemes advocate controlling illegal dumping while encouraging RL processes. The current study found that, as custodian, the state government organizations incentivize the RLSC of DW and inform the internal stakeholders of new technologies and infrastructure to enhance their operations' quality.…”

“…The internal stakeholders in the RLSC always try to minimize their cost of operations rather than following QA practices to yield a maximum waste recovery (Ghisellini et al , 2018). Within this context, Brandão et al (2021a) mentioned that a forceful and stringent influence should be available for the CI actors to change their attitudes and behaviors toward adopting QA practices in waste management. For instance, in the absence of strict regulatory mandates, the study found that the external stakeholders were only induced to follow QA practices due to aggressive fiscal triggers like landfill levy, gate fees and market demand.…”

“…Useful information is needed to form knowledge used to make an array of decisions and guided actions (Lotfi et al , 2013; Roba et al , 2018). Many previous studies claimed that the external stakeholders generate useful information to make informed decisions in an organization (Aschehoug et al , 2012; Brandão et al , 2021a; Wijewickrama et al , 2021c). For instance, Aschehoug et al (2012) underpinned that the external stakeholders generate product development related environmental information to enhance organizations' competitiveness in the manufacturing industry.…”

“…For instance, while Chileshe et al (2018) found drivers for adopting RL in the CI, Correia et al (2021) identified barriers for the implementation and plans to overcome them. In addition to these studies, many systematic literature reviews have been done around the area, highlighting existing trends and further directions to promote RL in the CI (Jayasinghe et al , 2019; Brandão et al , 2021a; Tennakoon et al , 2021; Wijewickrama et al , 2021a, b). Among all these studies, most recurrently underpinned that the RLSC in the CI is encountered with two major issues: inferior quality of reprocessed products and dearth of useful information (Chileshe et al , 2018; Jayasinghe et al , 2019; Pushpamali et al , 2021; Wijewickrama et al , 2021a, b).…”