Corporate Spirituality and Sustainability Performance of Logistics Service Providers: A Pilot Study

Abstract

This study examines the effect of corporate spirituality on the sustainability performance of logistics service providers (LSPs) and to investigate whether company’s demographic is a factor for the LSPs to possess corporate spirituality. Governed by Spirituality Leadership theory and Resource-Based View theory, this study quantitatively used 31 pilot data gathered from LSPs in Malaysia. The results found that corporate spirituality has a significant positive relationship with the sustainability performance of LSPs. Yet, company’s demographic is not a factor for the leaders in the LSPs to possess corporate spirituality in the leadership. This study adds empirical evidence on the examined relationship, especially in logistics companies which is found to be very limited in existing literature. Thus, this study expects to provide early insights into the research of corporate spirituality and organizational sustainability, as well as to motivate LSPs promoting corporate spirituality values among their leaders, thus can result in sustainability erformance.