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This paper focuses on the interrelationships between the different dimensions of supply chain integration. Specifically, it examines the relationship between employee commitment and supply chain integration dimensions to explain several performance measures (flexibility, delivery, quality, inventory and customer satisfaction). Very little research has been conducted into this topic, since employee commitment is rarely included as an antecedent of the effect of supply chain integration on performance. Seven research models have been analysed with Structural Equation Models using a multiple-informant international sample of 266 mid-to-large-size manufacturing plants. The findings suggest that the relationship between employee commitment and operational performance is fully mediated by supply chain integration. Employee commitment contributes to improving internal integration, and internal integration affects performance both directly and indirectly. Moreover, obtaining internal integration helps to achieve supplier and customer integration. As a result, companies should strive to achieve both employee commitment and internal integration, as they mutually reinforce each other. Similarly, managers should achieve internal integration before external integration and include external integration at the strategic level in order to reap the greatest advantages from supply chain integration. Meanwhile, managers should promote employee commitment not only for better supply chain success, but also to mitigate the barriers of supply chain management implementation.

Although the Supply Chain Management (SCM) concept was born at the beginning of the 1980s, research in the field was almost non-existent until the mid-1990s. Since then, the growth of SCM research has been exponential. Currently, SCM is making the change from being an emerging research field to becoming a consolidated one. The aim of this paper is to analyse the way SCM has developed from its origins and to determine whether its present development corresponds to the needs that companies are experiencing. This article provides a frame of reference for SCM research, which is essential for the definitive consolidation of a fledgling field such as this. It also allows any possible gap between SCM research and practice to be minimised.Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operations Management (OM), history review, research agendas, bibliometric studies,

El presente trabajo pretende ser una guía para la realización de búsquedas sistemáticas de bibliografía que sirvan para conocer en profundidad un determinado campo de estudio, desarrollar un marco teórico y establecer las hipótesis adecuadas sobre las que centrar la investigación. Con tal objetivo hemos buscado concretar las acciones a realizar en diferentes fases, que han quedado definidas en cinco etapas a seguir en este proceso: identificación del campo de estudio y del período a analizar, selección de las fuentes de información, realización de la búsqueda (qué, dónde y cómo),  gestión y depuración de los resultados de la búsqueda  y análisis de los resultados. Cada una de las ellas han sido descritas con detalle y ejemplificadas sobre la base de nuestra propia experiencia. Dada la importancia que la búsqueda sistemática de bibliografía tiene en la investigación, resultan de interés trabajos como el que presentamos, que ayudan a realizar esta actividad mejorando la eficiencia en tiempo e incrementando la calidad de los resultados obtenidos.

(This paper pretend to be a guide to the systematic literature review useful to know a particular field of study, develop a theoretical framework and establish the appropriate hypothesis on which to focus research. To this end we have sought to specify the actions to take in different phases, which have been defined in five steps to follow in this process: identifying the field of study and analysis period, selection of sources of information, conducting the search (what, where and how), management and treatment of search results and analysis of results. Each of them have been described in detail and exemplified on the basis of our experience. Due to the importance of the systematic review on research, papers like the presented here, help to perform this activity while improving efficiency and increasing the quality of the results)

Competitive pressure, high development costs, long lead times, rapidly changing technologies and the risks inherent in projects combined with the delays seen in the latest aircraft models (with the rise in costs that these have entailed) highlight the need to reorganise the supply chain in the aeronautics sector paying special attention to an improvement in inter-and intra-organisational integration. The aim of this study is to analyse the situation of supply chain integration (SCI) in the aeronautics sector using three dimensions (information integration, coordination and resource sharing and organisational relationship linkage), considering both internal integration and external integration with customers and suppliers. A group of first-tier supplier experts analyse the dimensions and assess the degree to which the factors that define SCI have been achieved. The results enable strengths and weaknesses to be determined and indicate possible improvements to the situation that is detected with clear managerial implications.