Purpose – The paper aims to examine the impact of information technology (IT) on the financial performance of third‐party logistics (3PL) firms in China. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire‐based mail survey was conducted in mainland China. Path analysis and spline regressions...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of backward supply chain information sharing (SCIS) on the performance of different parties along supply chains. Design/methodology/approach: Using data collected from 617 Chinese manufacturers, this study examines the effect of...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impacts of product modularity (PM) and multiskilled employees (MEs) on new product development (NPD) outcomes and explore the moderating effect of supply chain involvement. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used data collected from 317...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore the relationships among supply chain risks (SCRs), supply chain integration (SCI), and company performance in a global context. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on the High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) project...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of various supply chain integration (SCI) practices under different competitive strategies in terms of cost leadership and differentiation. Design/methodology/approach – Survey methodology was used to collect data...

Purpose – This study aims to bridge the gap in understanding the effects of organizational culture on supply chain integration (SCI) by examining the relationships between organizational cultures and SCI. The extant studies investigating the antecedents of SCI focus mainly on environments,...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the impacts of relational capital on supply chain quality integration (SCQI) and operational performance from the holistic perspective of the entire supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: Structural equation modeling with LISREL was used to test the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and empirically test a model of different aspects of ISO 9000 implementation in terms of their relationships with three key supply chain (SC) management practices (internal processes, supplier relationships, and customer relationships). In...

Purpose – This paper aims to simultaneously examine the impact of three types of supply chain integration (SCI) on three types of company performance from the perspective of organizational capability. Design/methodology/approach – Using data collected from 617 companies in China and the...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the antecedents of supply chain information integration (SCII) and their consequences on company performance from the perspective of resource-based view (RBV). Design/methodology/approach Based on empirical survey data collected from 202 Australian...