The impact of supply chain concentration on integration and business performance

DOI码：

10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108781

发表刊物：

International Journal of Production Economics

项目来源：

This work is funded by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China [grant number 2020AAA010380

关键字：

Supply chain concentration, Supply chain integration, Business performance, Environmental turbulence

摘要：

Although supply chain integration is critical to enhancing business performance, achieving effective integration with major suppliers and customers remains a challenge. While current scholarship suggests supply chain integration can be enabled by concentrating business to a few major suppliers and customers, scholars have yet to reach a consensus on this effect. We address this gap by examining the impact of supply chain concentration on integration and business performance with the consideration of the contingent role of environmental turbulence. Using archival and matched survey data from 1008 senior managers of 336 firms collected at two points in time, we find supplier concentration does not have a significant effect on supplier integration while customer concentration has a positive effect on customer integration. We also find market turbulence weakens the concentration-integration relationship for both supplier and customer sides while technological turbulence strengthens it. Supplier and customer integration have significantly positive effects on business performance. Our study offers a comprehensive view for achieving integration with major suppliers (customers) via the management of supplier (customer) concentration to improve business performance.

备注：

This work is funded by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China [grant number 2020AAA0103804] and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 72001155 and 71971202].

合写作者：

Chen, Meng, Tang, Xinlin, Liu, Hefu*, & Gu, Jibao

学科门类：

管理学

文献类型：

J

卷号：

257

页面范围：

15

ISSN号：

0925-5273

是否译文：

否

发表时间：

2023-01-01

发布期刊链接：

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108781