Supply chain resilience and performance of manufacturing firms: role of supply chain disruption

Abstract

PurposeThe current study sought to investigate the moderating effect of supply chain disruptions (SCD) (supply chain – supply disruption, catastrophic disruption and infrastructure disruption) on the relationship between supply chain resilience (SCR) and supply chain performance (SCP) of manufacturing firms in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe quantitative research approach and explanatory research designs were utilised. A sample of 345 manufacturing firms were drawn from a population of 2,495 manufacturing firms in the Accra metropolis. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed to accomplish the research objectives.FindingsFirst, the study revealed that SCR has a significant positive effect on SCP. Second, the authors found reasonable evidence to support that SCD have a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between SCR and SCP, except for supply chain catastrophic disruption which had a negative impact. It can be concluded that the components of SCD have heterogeneous impact in the SCR and SCP nexus.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to manufacturing firms in Ghana and does not make a distinction among resilience strategies.Practical implicationsIncreased SCR boost manufacturing companies' supply chains' performance and aid to lessen the adverse effects of SCD relating to infrastructure and supply. It implies that supply chain managers are able to reduce the effects of infrastructure and supply disruptions. Also, techniques that reduce the adverse impact of SCD relating to catastrophe would be beneficial for supply chain managers in Ghana and other countries with comparable economic environments.Originality/valueThe study provides a unique contribution on the moderating role of the dimensions of SCD (supply, infrastructure and catastrophic) on the nexus between SCR and SCP in a developing economy context in a dynamic changing environment. Policymakers would get better insights into instituting the required policies needed to revamp firms with weak supply chains as a result of supply chain disruption.

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“…Cross-loading above 0.7 indicates that all indicators with different constructs contribute well to measuring this variable [25]. Cronbach alpha, rho_A, and Composite reliability (CR) values above 0.7 indicate a high level of consistency between indicators in measuring their variables [26]. A value of AVE larger than 0.5 indicates that most of the variance of the indicators has been explained through the variables themselves, which is further proof of the high quality of the measurements [27].…”

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“…Change is facilitated by temporal linkages between institutional projects and vertical linkages between institutional projects and sector-level development programs (Pizzi et al, 2023). Hamidu et al (2023) examined the moderating effect of supply chain disruption on the relationship between supply chain flexibility and supply chain efficiency for manufacturing firms in Ghana and showed that SCR has a significant positive effect on SCP. Second, the authors found sufficient evidence that SCD has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between SCR and SCP, except for supply chain disruption, which had a negative effect (Patidar et al, 2022).…”

“…SCR originally referred to the ability of a supply chain to recover after a disruption and appears to have been adopted from engineering (Nikookar and Yanadori, 2021). In related study, Hamidu et al (2023) examined the moderating effect of supply chain disruption on the relationship between SCR and SCP for manufacturing firms in Ghana and showed that SCR has a significant positive effect on SCP. Second, the authors found sufficient evidence that SCD has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between SCR and SCP.…”

Does technological innovation matter in the nexus between supply chain resilience and performance of manufacturing firms in a developing economy?

“…A plethora of studies have envisaged that SCR is a crucial factor influencing supply chain performance (SCP) (Chowdhury et al ., 2019; Ekanayake et al ., 2021; Gu et al ., 2020; Hamidu et al ., 2023; Hasani and Khosrojerdi, 2016; Mandal et al ., 2016; Piprani et al ., 2020; Wong et al ., 2020; Zhang et al ., 2021). However, prior studies are silent on the role technological innovation plays in intervening or enhancing the relationship between SCR and SCP (see, Parast et al ., 2019; Sabahi and Parast, 2020; Yu et al ., 2022).…”

“…Supply chains compete with one other and support environmental sustainability at the same time, according to Blackwell and Blackwell (1999). For this reason, supply chain management development and improvement have received a lot of attention from academics and business professionals with the aim of minimizing supply chain disruption (Hamidu et al, 2022(Hamidu et al, , 2023. This notion is referred to as supply chain resilience (SCR).…”