TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of environmental uncertainty on supply chain integration in Chinese manufacturing industry
AU - Xu, Dehui
AU - Zhao, Li
AU - Li, Gang
AU - Sun, Linyan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Supply chain integration nowadays is considered as an important approach to building and sustaining advantages. Many previous empirical researches focus on the effect of supply chain integration on the firms' performance, yet, the antecedence of supply chain integration is still largely unknown. This paper investigates the relationship between environmental uncertainty (including demand uncertainty, supply uncertainty and technology uncertainty) and supply chain integration (including customer integration, supplier integration and internal integration) with 139 samples from Chinese manufacturing industry. The results reveal both supply uncertainty and technology uncertainty significantly influence supply chain integration; the effect of supply uncertainty is negative, while that of technology uncertainty is positive. However, demand uncertainty just has a significant effect on internal integration. The relationship between demand uncertainty and external integration (including customer integration and supplier integration) is mediated by the internal integration.
AB - Supply chain integration nowadays is considered as an important approach to building and sustaining advantages. Many previous empirical researches focus on the effect of supply chain integration on the firms' performance, yet, the antecedence of supply chain integration is still largely unknown. This paper investigates the relationship between environmental uncertainty (including demand uncertainty, supply uncertainty and technology uncertainty) and supply chain integration (including customer integration, supplier integration and internal integration) with 139 samples from Chinese manufacturing industry. The results reveal both supply uncertainty and technology uncertainty significantly influence supply chain integration; the effect of supply uncertainty is negative, while that of technology uncertainty is positive. However, demand uncertainty just has a significant effect on internal integration. The relationship between demand uncertainty and external integration (including customer integration and supplier integration) is mediated by the internal integration.
KW - Empirical study
KW - Environmental uncertainty
KW - Supply chain integration
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77955968509
U2 - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2010.5530165
DO - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2010.5530165
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:77955968509
SN - 9781424464876
T3 - 2010 7th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, Proceedings of ICSSSM' 10
SP - 623
EP - 628
BT - 2010 7th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, Proceedings of ICSSSM' 10
T2 - 7th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, ICSSSM'10
Y2 - 28 June 2010 through 30 June 2010
ER -