Supplier integration, operational capability and firm performance: an investigation in an emerging economy environment
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The literature on supplier integration’s (SI) impact on firm performance is intertwined with mixed findings in terms of definitional differences, study context, specific integration components, and the types of relationships examined. This study contributes to the supplier integration and firm performance (SI-FP) literature by investigating how and when supplier integration influences firm performance. Drawing on the relational view, the resource-based view, and the Dynamics Capability theories, we suggest that improvements in firm performance from the supplier integration perspective are dependent on gains in operational capabilities. We test this dependency with survey data from firms in Ghana, a developing economy. The results show positive significant relationships between supplier integration and competitive operational capabilities and between supplier integration and firm performance. Our results highlight the importance for managers in developing economies and elsewhere to improve their firms’ operational capabilities and competitiveness by investing in supplier integration. We also discuss implications of these findings for research.Citation
Amoako-Gyampah, K., Boakye, K.G., Famiyeh, S. and Adaku, E. (2019) Supplier integration, operational capability and firm performance: an investigation in an emerging economy environment, Production Planning and Control, 31(13), pp. 1128-1148.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Production Planning and ControlAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09537287.2019.1700570?journalCode=tppc20Type
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Production Planning and Control on 12/12/2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2019.1700570 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
0953-7287EISSN
1366-5871ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09537287.2019.1700570
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