Despite increasing awareness of the importance of organisations to join venture, research on the relationship among supply chain Partnership, collaboration, integration, relationship commitment and performance has received little attention. Therefore, using a data set of 450 from the small medium enterprise (SMEs) in South Africa, this study examines the influence of supply chain partnership on collaboration, collaboration on integration, integration on relationship commitment and relationship commitment on performance. All the proposed five hypotheses were empirically supported indicating that supply chain performance positively influence manufacturing SMEs' collaboration, integration, relationship commitment and performance in a significant way. Interesting to note from the results is the fact that supply chain partnership has the most significant impact on integration than collaboration and relationship commitment respectively.Managerial implications, limitations and future research directions are suggested.
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