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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies, conceptualises and measures the extent of logistics resources acquired by Malaysian logistics service providers (LSPs) and further examines the impact of such logistics resources on logistics performance in terms of customer service innovation and cost leadership. Based on data from interviews and a survey of 123 LSPs in Malaysia, this paper uses factor analyses to establish five components of logistics resources and capabilities – technology, physical, management expertise, relational and organisational resources. Further regression analyses suggest that each logistics resource is positively associated with both customer service innovation and cost leadership, and some of these resources are bundled together to enhance the two performances. The paper contributes to the development of constructs and measurements for logistics resources from LSPs’ perspective and provides theory-driven empirical evidences to explain the performance of LSPs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]