Promoting logistics performance in Vietnam-based manufacturing firms: The role of service-oriented high-performance work systems and mediation mechanisms

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWSs) contribute to logistics performance and the mediation mechanisms underlying this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

Employees and their managers from logistics departments and/or business departments of manufacturing firms in the Vietnamese business setting were recruited as participants in the data collection. Structural equation modeling was employed for the data analysis.

Findings

Service-oriented HPWSs demonstrated the positive effects on logistics performance via serving culture. Serving culture was found to have the positive link with logistics performance via the mediating roles of collective role breadth self-efficacy and collective customer knowledge.

Originality/value

The current research extends the logistics management research by identifying service-oriented HPWSs as an antecedent of logistics performance as well as the mediation mechanisms underlying this effect.

Citation

Luu, T. (2019), "Promoting logistics performance in Vietnam-based manufacturing firms: The role of service-oriented high-performance work systems and mediation mechanisms", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 49 No. 1, pp. 52-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-07-2017-0238