Enhancing supply chain resilience in SMEs: the role of business and political ties

Alghababsheh, Mohammad

doi:10.1108/bpmj-02-2023-0076

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“…In addition, the sharing of information and collective learning help organisations understand the market and predict the future with great accuracy through the efficient processing of information, which in return enhances their AC [47]. Regarding supporting services, any support, such as government funding, infrastructure delivery [72] and political support [73], will help organisations enhance their competitiveness [72], as they provide technical support and specialised training [74]. This, in return, promotes the development of employees' skills and helps make new investments and applies innovative techniques that enhance resilience [44] and AC [47].…”

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Empowering Clusters: How Dynamic Capabilities Drive Sustainable Supply Chain Clusters in Egypt

Barakat,

Wu,

Tipi

2023

Sustainability

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Drawing on systems theory, the extended resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this research develops an integrated framework to offer a more nuanced understanding of the mediating role of dynamic capabilities between supply chain cluster design characteristics and economic, social and environmental sustainability. Data were collected from organisations in Egypt through a questionnaire survey and were analysed using structural equation modelling. Based on 811 responses, a multi-mediation model analysis using Smart-PLS recognises that geographical concentration, networked collaboration and supporting services systems are critical supply chain cluster design characteristics that offer a pool of resources and collective knowledge that help organisations build absorptive capacity and resilience, which, in turn, help in protecting, reconfiguring and developing the shared resources to achieve high levels of environmental, social and economic sustainability. The findings affirm that supply chain clusters can be used as a tool to maintain desired sustainability levels in a dynamic business environment as it will allow organisations to cope with sudden changes in the market quickly and efficiently. This will allow organisations to improve sustainability performance by developing their dynamic capabilities with enhanced supporting services and network collaboration, thereby adequately exploiting external knowledge and opportunities, as well as effectively mitigating business vulnerability. This will also help in extending the three theoretical lenses through contextualising their abstract ideas in a supply chain cluster context and analyse data from a developing market. This is particularly important as further investigation is needed regarding supply chain clusters and the relationship between dynamic capabilities and sustainability in different contexts, especially since previous studies focused on developed economies and did not use the combination of these variables.

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Empowering Clusters: How Dynamic Capabilities Drive Sustainable Supply Chain Clusters in Egypt

Barakat,

Wu,

Tipi

2023

Sustainability

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Understanding whether, how and when circular supply chain management influences firm performance

Alghababsheh

2024

Bus Strat Env

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Integrating circular economy (CE) principles into supply chain management (SCM) plays a key role in accelerating the transition to CE and realising its sustainability potential. This integration has recently attracted increased attention and emerged formally as circular SCM (CSCM). As with other business practices, economic feasibility is a major deciding factor with regard to CSCM adoption. Therefore, understanding whether, how and when firms can benefit from CSCM is of paramount importance for theory, practice and policy. However, the relationship between CSCM and firm performance and the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions that could explain this relationship have received limited empirical attention. Drawing on multiple theoretical perspectives, this study examines the mediating role of employees' organisational identification in the relationship between CSCM and firm's operational performance and the moderating effect of employees' pro‐environmental attitude on this role. To achieve this, a multi‐respondent cross‐sectional research design was used in which data from managers and employees of 163 Jordan‐based manufacturing firms was obtained using two separately administrated surveys. The results reveal that CSCM has a positive impact on firm's operational performance. CSCM was also found to indirectly improve firm's operational performance through enhancing employees' organisational identification. Further, the results indicated that, unexpectedly, employees' pro‐environmental attitude does not amplify the positive relationship between CSCM and their organisational identification, or indeed the mediating effect of employees' organisational identification in the nexus between CSCM and firm's operational performance. These results have important implications for advancing the theory and practice of the CE.

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Managing supply chain risk through inter-organisational justice

Khamaiseh,

Alghababsheh,

Lekhavat

et al. 2024

IJPPM

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PurposeThis study examines the impact of inter-organisational justice (i.e. distributive, procedural and interactional) in the buyer–supplier relationship on supply risk and, in turn, on a firm’s marketing and financial performance.Design/methodology/approachA structured survey was administered both online and in-person to Jordan-based manufacturing companies. The 137 responses received were analysed using partial least structural equation modelling.FindingsThe study found that while establishing both procedural and interactional justice in the relationship has a negative impact on supply risk, promoting distributive justice, surprisingly, has no impact. Moreover, supply risk was found to be detrimental to the firm’s marketing and financial performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study considers only the direct role of inter-organisational justice in reducing supply risk. Future research could enhance our understanding of this role by exploring the underlying mechanisms and conditions that could govern it.Practical implicationsManagers can alleviate supply risk by ensuring procedural and interactional justice in the relationship through involving suppliers in the decision-making processes, consistently adhering to established procedures and communicating transparent and ample information.Social implicationsAddressing supply risk can help in maintaining community resilience and economic stability.Originality/valueThe study highlights inter-organisational justice as a new approach to mitigating supply risk. Moreover, by examining how supply risk can affect a firm’s marketing performance, it also highlights a new implication of supply risk. Furthermore, by exclusively examining the impact of supply risk on a firm’s financial performance, the study provides a more nuanced interpretation of the effect of supply risk and how it can be reduced.

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Enhancing supply chain resilience in SMEs: the role of business and political ties

Cited by 4 publications

References 108 publications

Empowering Clusters: How Dynamic Capabilities Drive Sustainable Supply Chain Clusters in Egypt

Empowering Clusters: How Dynamic Capabilities Drive Sustainable Supply Chain Clusters in Egypt

Understanding whether, how and when circular supply chain management influences firm performance

Managing supply chain risk through inter-organisational justice

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