A LITERATURE REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ON REVERSE LOGISTICS PRACTICES: THE PERSPECTIVE AND IMPACT

Abstract

Managing environmental performance is essential for an organization’s value creation. Nonetheless, due to certain considerations that lead to socioeconomic and institutional factors, this process sometime become complicated. Reverse logistics is a green activity that can make a big difference in terms of environmental performance. Nowadays, most competitive countries tend to have better environmental performance. Reverse logistics can simply define as the return, exchange, refurbishment, remarketing, and disposition of products. The implementation of reverse logistics practices into business became a competitive advantage and it became strategic goals for the organization’s economic benefits and somehow effects the environment legislation. Therefore, it is very important to understand how environmental performance can be improve through reverse logistics practices. The purpose and objective of this study is to understand the reverse logistics practices on environmental performance in view of comprehensive literature perspectives. To reach the objective, this study only explores secondary data which is review the literature as the research methodology. The findings of this research suggest that two factors namely the socioeconomic factor and institutional factor, can be used indicators and measurements for environmental performance in reverse logistics practices. The results are provided in a table.