The effects of agro-food supply chain integration on product quality and financial performance: Evidence from Chinese agro-food processing business

Zhao, Xiaofei; Wang, Ping; Pal, Raktim

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107832

Cited by 102 publications

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“…Supply chain integration can be a process integration between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers to benefit supply chain partnership [11,[28][29][30][31]. The demand for finished products that increase substantially and suddenly from customers affects its production planning, which is increasingly complicated in fulfilling customer demand [32].…”

Section: Supply Chain Management (Scm) Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The company's management is still focused on the company's operational and financial accomplishments. The company's financial performance can be measured by comparing with similar companies that the company is higher than its competitors including market share, return on sales and return on investment [31]. The process of activities within the organization over particular times concerning predetermined requirements generates company results.…”

Section: Business Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Supply Chain Integration Enables Resilience, Flexibility, and Innovation to Improve Business Performance in COVID-19 Era

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a sudden change from normal conditions to disruption conditions, and industrial sectors have experienced eroded growth. In particular, the manufacturing industry experienced a slowdown due to the sudden disruption in supply and demand. This situation stimulates the manufacturing industry to recover from this current challenging disruption. This study investigates the impact of supply chain integration on business performance through supply chain resilience, supply chain flexibility, and innovation system in Indonesia’s manufacturing companies. Data collection has obtained as many as 470 questionnaires considered valid for further analysis. Data analysis used the partial least square (PLS) technique using smartPLS software version 3.0. The results show that supply chain integration affects innovation system, supply chain flexibility, and supply chain resilience because of its ability to share complete product information and share production planning. Innovation systems and supply chain flexibility enhance supply chain resilience through the ability to deal with sudden changes in customer demand and production problems. Supply chain integration improves business performance through innovation, supply chain flexibility, and supply chain resilience in the COVID-19 era. This research could be the best practice for managers in restoring manufacturing performance quickly. This study also contributes to the current research in supply chain management.

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Section: Supply Chain Management (Scm) Integrationmentioning

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“…The study of Istudor, Ion [ 13 ] and Mirel, Florentin [ 14 ] points out that agricultural co-operatives can improve farmers’ status in the supply chain, increasing product sales, reducing farmers’ costs, and even playing a positive role in protecting the environment. In the relevant studies in South Korea [ 15 ], China [ 16 ] and other Asian countries, we also find that people lay more and more emphasis on how to connect agricultural co-operatives with other individuals in ASC and attach great importance to the economic and social benefits they may bring. From the concepts and characteristics above, we can find that the agricultural co-operative is likely to be an active part of ASCI.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Internal integration for a specific organization refers to the synergies across departments for information, data and resources to meet consumer demands and improve product quality with low costs in the material purchase, technology upgrade, market operation, and logistics transportation, etc. [ 16 , 20 – 22 ]. External integration (i.e., supplier and customer integration) refers to the inter-organization systematic and forward-looking coordination between a specific agricultural organization and its ASC partners, such as suppliers, customers, and others.…”

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“…Depending on its government’s power, the trinity federation can set up Service Center to connect the suppliers and retailers, helping farmers buy agricultural materials at a lower price, cutting down procurement costs, and guaranteeing the food safety. This method of using co-operatives and other relevant organizations to gather farmers’ power and strengthen their status in ASC can be seen in Europe [ 42 ], Asia [ 16 ] and many other places.…”

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Agricultural co-operatives participating in supply chain integration in China: A qualitative comparative analysis

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Agro-food supply chain integration (ASCI) plays a growingly important role in the stable and sustainable development of agriculture. However, it is challenging for core firms to integrate the small-scale and scatted farmers due to complex transaction processes and volatile relationships in China. Agricultural co-operatives are organizations that unite farmers’ power and help them achieve economic benefits. Our research focuses on ASCI from the perspective of co-operatives. A comprehensive cooperative framework, including trinity co-operatives and trinity federations, is conducted to figure out the position and process of agricultural co-operatives in ASCI, while QCA provides detailed collaborative patterns for agricultural co-operatives to adopt. Results show that agricultural co-operatives can achieve high economic and social/environmental performance when participating in ASCI. This study further completes the ASCI literature and offers many managerial and academic implications to co-operatives’ members and policy-makers.

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The short‐ and long‐term impacts of overinvestments on the profitability of agri‐food processing firms in China

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This study examines the short‐ and long‐term impacts of overinvestments on the profitability of Chinese agri‐food processing firms. We construct an overinvestment age variable measured as the number of years since the most recent overinvestment and use a two‐way fixed effects model based on firm‐level data for the Chinese agri‐food‐processing industry from 1998 to 2013 to conduct the research. We find that the profitability of firms improves during the first and second years following the most recent overinvestment. However, from the third year onward, profitability declines, and the restraining effect increases year by year. In addition, we find that regional differences and differences in financing constraints can explain the heterogeneity of the overinvestment age affecting firm profitability. [EconLit Citations: D22, L25, L66].

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The effects of agro-food supply chain integration on product quality and financial performance: Evidence from Chinese agro-food processing business

Cited by 102 publications

References 94 publications

Supply Chain Integration Enables Resilience, Flexibility, and Innovation to Improve Business Performance in COVID-19 Era

Supply Chain Integration Enables Resilience, Flexibility, and Innovation to Improve Business Performance in COVID-19 Era

Agricultural co-operatives participating in supply chain integration in China: A qualitative comparative analysis

The short‐ and long‐term impacts of overinvestments on the profitability of agri‐food processing firms in China

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