Determinants of supplier‐retailer collaboration: evidence from an international study

Sheu, Chwen; Yen, HsiuJu Rebecca; Chae, Bongsug

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“…Without trust, there can be no engagement in inter-firm information-sharing and joint collaboration. Some researchers [6,20,31,45,48] found that, when facing stressful and uncertain situations, the managers might develop distrust and fear toward their supply chain partners. If so, it is very possible that manufacturers, in the case of environmental uncertainty, are discouraged to rely on informal social ties to protect their interests.…”

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Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Yang

Lien

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The literature has recognized the value of green supply chain management in achieving the goals of environmental management. Yet developing and fostering sustainability partnerships among supply chain organizations remains challenging. Bounded rationality and opportunistic behaviors are likely to hinder joint sustainability collaboration and performance. The literature has called for a better understanding of the governance of green supply chain collaboration. This study applies transactional cost economics as a conceptual framework to investigate the relationships among transaction features, governance mechanisms, and environmental performance. Using the data collected from 969 plants in 17 countries, the statistical analysis compares and validates the effectiveness of three alternative governance mechanisms: contractual governance, problem-solving cooperation governance, and information-sharing governance. The statistical results reveal significant performance differences in how firms apply alternative governance mechanisms to mitigate opportunism, manage adaptation problems, and improve green supply chain collaboration and performance. Overall, this study makes research contributions by confirming the mediation effects of governance mechanisms on green supply chain practices. For green supply chains to be a viable practice, firms should apply governance mechanisms in proper alignment with the nature of the collaborative and environmental conditions.

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“…Specifically, asset specificity could potentially cause opportunism, as both supplier and buyer could engage in hold-up behavior [5,19,31]. On the one hand, buyers may leverage the supplier's dedicated assets to lower prices.…”

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Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Yang

Lien

2018

Sustainability

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“…A growing body of literature suggests that successful capacitybuilding programmes entail cooperation and involvement of key stakeholders including customers, governments, suppliers, and supply chain partners (Airike, Rotter, & Mark-Herbert, 2016;Benton & Maloni, 2005;Clarke & MacDonald, 2016;Sheu, Yen, & Chae, 2006; Tu, Vonderembse, Ragu-Nathan, & Sharkey, 2006). It has been suggested that government actions are essential in inducing firms' capacity-building activities and the corresponding firm behaviour (Song, Dwyer, Li, & Cao, 2012).…”

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Business and government interdependence in emerging economies: Insights from hotels in Ghana

Amankwah‐Amoah

Debrah

Honyenuga

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Journal of Tourism Research

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Although social science research is replete with scholarly works on capacity building, relatively few studies have focused on how government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises in emerging economies. We seek to fill the lacuna in our understanding by examining how a government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises.The study adopted a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with hotel owners, employees, and managers, as well as government officials in Ghana to examine the issue. We identified three unique stages through which such capacity-building initiatives unfold encompassing diagnosing, renewal, and customer centricity. The study revealed that capacity building through collaborative partnership was partly motivated by desire to overcome societal resistance to services seen as "tainted." The concluding section outlines a number of theoretical and practical implications. KEYWORDSAfrica, capacity building, Ghana, government, hotels | INTRODUCTIONOver the past four decades, accelerated globalization has been accompanied by the increasing contribution of services to the global economy (Jayaraman & Luo, 2006;Vargo & Lusch, 2004). In parallel, many governments have formulated and implemented industrial policies geared towards opening up their economies to capture the benefits of globalization. In many developing countries, capacity building is one such policy (Farazmand, 2009;Tjosvold, Peng, Chen, & Su, 2008). In general, such policy is consistent with findings from prior studies that have highlighted the view that governments can play a role in firm-level capacity building (Cammett, 2007;Cull, Navajas, Nishida, & Zeiler, 2015;Farazmand, 2009;Ha & Kang, 2015;Shao, Hernández, & Liu, 2015;Tjosvold et al., 2008). In many instances, governments in collaboration with companies, industries, customers, and suppliers have engaged in capacity-building initiatives to create a sustainable business model (see also Suntikul & Dorji, 2015).Yet a closer look at the existing literature suggests that, despite some research on business and government interdependence and collaboration (Tian, Shi, Hafsi, & Tian, 2017;Tjosvold et al., 2008;Wong, Wei, & Tjosvold, 2015) and capacity development (e.g., Farazmand, 2009;Stephens et al., 2017;Victurine, 2000), our understanding of capacity building through collaborative partnership between government and business remains severely limited (see Shao et al., 2015). By capacity building through collaborative partnerships, we are referring to a situation where multiple stakeholders are mobilized and resources marshalled towards building firms' capabilities and fulfilling their role within the national economy.Against this backdrop, the main purpose of this study is to examine how a government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises in an emerging economy. We focus on Ghana and the hotel industry for a number of reasons. Since the late 1950s, when Ghana gained independence, it has been touted as a "Bea...

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“…It is key to establishing a seamless supply chain to ensure undistorted and real-time market data access at every node within the supply chain (Towill, 1997). Information sharing is an essential requirement (Sheu, Yen & Chae, 2006), is the foundation of SCI (Lee & Whang, 2001), and improves firms' overall performance (Yang & Burns, 2003). "Process integration" refers to the extent to which a firm can structure its operational processes, as well as the sharing of resources, rewards and risks across organizations, into consensus agreements in order to achieve competitiveness (Yeung et al, 2009 (Kanda & Deshmukh, 2008) and also refers to the extent to which partners standardise and synchronise inter-firm processes (Zhou & Benton, 2007).…”

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The synergistic and complementary effects of supply chain justice and integration practices on supply chain performance: A conceptual framework and research propositions

Ziaullah

Feng

Akhter

2015

SAJEMS

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In recent years, firms have been using their supply chain integration (SCI) as a competitive weapon in the intensive, globalised competitive arena. The contingent perspective in supply chain management maintains that it is necessary to observe the interaction between SCI practices and supply chain justice. A critical issue to be resolved is whether this fit leads to synergistic and complementary effects on supply chain performance. In order to contribute to this research problem, we analysed supply chain justice instances in order to determine the importance of supply chain justice, as well as highlights complementary role in SCI and its influences on supply chain performance. A conceptual framework has been developed and five propositions established to verify the contents of a theoretical study. Accordingly, balancing the adoption of SCI practices and supply chain justice will lead to the generation of greater benefits relative to the effect of both independent driving forces on supply chain performance. Furthermore, the proposed framework has been analysed in order to examine its applicability in the South African context. The study thereby suggests the empirical research guidelines and the paper concludes with a discussion of future research.

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Determinants of supplier‐retailer collaboration: evidence from an international study

Cited by 350 publications

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Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Governance Mechanisms for Green Supply Chain Partnership

Business and government interdependence in emerging economies: Insights from hotels in Ghana

The synergistic and complementary effects of supply chain justice and integration practices on supply chain performance: A conceptual framework and research propositions

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