TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk, risk management and the success of supply chain integration
AU - Wiengarten, Frank
AU - Humphreys, Paul
AU - Gimenez, Cristina
AU - McIvor, Ronan
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Companies have reacted to the apparent opportunities and threats of globalization through various global production practices that have increased supply chain complexity and various forms of risk. Through increasing supply chain integration, companies have attempted to manage this increased level of complexity. Supply chain integration has been identified as a key practice to manage supply chains and achieve superior performance. The intent of this paper is to explore the role of risk and risk management practices in the success of supply chain integration in terms of their impact on cost and innovation performance. By applying the relational view and through cross-country survey and secondary country data we explore differences in supply chain integration efficacy based on the risk of conducting business (measured in terms of the strength of a country׳s rule of law) and the mitigating effect of supply chain risk management practices. One of the main conclusions suggests that supplier integration is also effective in weak rule of law (i.e., high risk) environments. Furthermore, companies can complement and strengthen the performance impact of their supplier integration practices through supply chain risk management practices in risky environments.
AB - Companies have reacted to the apparent opportunities and threats of globalization through various global production practices that have increased supply chain complexity and various forms of risk. Through increasing supply chain integration, companies have attempted to manage this increased level of complexity. Supply chain integration has been identified as a key practice to manage supply chains and achieve superior performance. The intent of this paper is to explore the role of risk and risk management practices in the success of supply chain integration in terms of their impact on cost and innovation performance. By applying the relational view and through cross-country survey and secondary country data we explore differences in supply chain integration efficacy based on the risk of conducting business (measured in terms of the strength of a country׳s rule of law) and the mitigating effect of supply chain risk management practices. One of the main conclusions suggests that supplier integration is also effective in weak rule of law (i.e., high risk) environments. Furthermore, companies can complement and strengthen the performance impact of their supplier integration practices through supply chain risk management practices in risky environments.
KW - Supply chain integration
KW - Rule of law
KW - Risk management
KW - Operational performance
KW - Relational view
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/risk-risk-management-and-the-success-of-supply-chain-integration-3
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.03.020
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.03.020
M3 - Article
VL - 171
SP - 361
EP - 370
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
SN - 0925-5273
IS - Part 3
ER -