The impact of reverse logistics practices on the organization's environmental performance (An applied study)

This research aims to identifythe reverse logistics practices that ‎actually applied in the Egyptian business organizations in general, and ‎business organizations within the industrial goods, services and ‎automobiles sector in particular,and the extent of the application,besides ‎measuring the degree of impact of the application of those practices on ‎the environmental performance of the organizations under study. ‎ The analytical and descriptive approach has been used,and a field ‎study was conducted using questionnaires as a key tool for collecting the ‎primary data of the research. Moreover, a complete census method for ‎determining number of observations from managers of the three ‎administrative levels (top, middle, and direct) of the eleven organizations ‎under study was used, where the number of collected observations were ‎‎289 observations.‎ The results of the research showed that there are no statistically ‎significant differences between the points of views of the sampling units ‎regarding the application of reverse logistics practices in the ‎organizations under study, as managers in the top, middle and direct ‎management pointed out that the practices are in the final planning ‎phase and about to be applied.The results of the research also showed ‎that the reverse logistics practices have a significant impact on the ‎environmental performance of the organizations under study.‎