Relationships among supply chain strategies, organizational performance, and technological and market turbulences
The International Journal of Logistics Management
ISSN: 0957-4093
Article publication date: 9 May 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a relational view of supply chain management strategy (RSCMS) and its impact on organizational performance and examine the moderating role of technological and market turbulences on these relationships.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors propose a conceptual model that links supply chain (SC) strategies to operational and relational outcomes of organizational performance. The authors follow an interdisciplinary approach by integrating insights from domains such as supply chain management (SCM), operations, marketing, management, management information systems, and technology management.
Findings
The proposed RSCMS framework presents 15 propositions that examine SCM strategies and their interrelationships, and examine how these strategies result in superior organizational performance.
Research limitations/implications
Through the RSCMS framework, the authors conceptualize transformation as a higher order SC strategy resulting from collaborative and integrative SCs, and tie the relational SC mix first to operational and relational outcomes and then to organizational performance.
Practical implications
The research provides a better understanding of SC strategies of collaboration, integration, and transformation, along with market and technological turbulences for more efficient and effective SCs.
Originality/value
In this research, the authors propose a unified RSCMS framework of SC mix strategies of collaboration, integration, and transformation and their influence on organizational performance; and explore how the RSCMS framework contributes to theory development, provide insights for managers, and explore avenues for further research.
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Acknowledgements
The authors appreciate the guidance of the Editor and the constructive comments of the anonymous reviewers on prior drafts of the manuscript. They also appreciate useful comments from Zach Zacharia on a previous version of the paper. The authorship appears in alphabetical order.
Citation
Arora, A., Arora, A.S. and Sivakumar, K. (2016), "Relationships among supply chain strategies, organizational performance, and technological and market turbulences", The International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 206-232. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-09-2013-0103
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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