Showing papers on "Relational view published in 2013"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the resilience domain, which is important in the field of supply chain management; they investigate the effects relational competencies have for resilience and the effect resilience, in turn, has on a supply chain's s customer value.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the resilience domain, which is important in the field of supply chain management; it investigates the effects relational competencies have for resilience and the effect resilience, in turn, has on a supply chain ' s customer value. Design/methodology/approach – The research is empirical in nature and employs a confirmatory approach that builds on the relational view as a primary theoretical foundation. It utilizes survey data collected from manufacturing firms from three countries, which is analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings – It is found that communicative and cooperative relationships have a positive effect on resilience, while integration does not have a significant effect. It is also found that improved resilience, obtained by investing in agility and robustness, enhances a supply chain ' s customer value. Practical implications – Some findings contrast the expectations derived from theory. Particularly, practitioners can learn t...
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a research model based on a relational view, delineating the factors that influence hospital supply chain performance: trust, knowledge exchange, IT integration between the hospital and its suppliers, and hospital-supplier integration.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of trust as an enabler and constraint between buyers and suppliers engaged in long-term relationships is explored, and two cases where trust development processes demonstrate a paradox of trust-building behaviors cultivate different outcomes constraining value co-creation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a survey included 189 parts and components manufacturers (suppliers) in Turkey, and hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses that interfirm knowledge sharing routines, relation-specific investments, and governance mechanisms may promote supplier innovativeness by expanding the supplier's knowledge resources.
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TL;DR: It is argued that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change fence-sitters provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them, and this cooptation increases the probability that the organization will adopt the change.
Abstract: We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change fence-sitters provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them. This cooptation increases the probability that the organization will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change outright resistors are an effective means of affective cooptation only when a change diverges little from institutionalized practices. With more divergent changes, the advantages of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker, and may turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multimethod case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which social networks operate as tools of political influence through affective mechanisms.
This paper was accepted by Jesper Sorensen, organizations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the effectiveness of relationship-specific investments in R&D outsourcing agreements from the viewpoint of the client and find that the contribution of these investments to client performance decreases the more a client's core knowledge is required to perform the service, except when outsourcing to non-profits.
Abstract: Intangible relationship-specific investments can be double-edged swords, as they facilitate not only the governance of business relationships but also undesired knowledge transfers. Building on transaction costs theory and the relational view of alliances, we analyse the effectiveness of these investments in R&D outsourcing agreements from the viewpoint of the client. We argue that, when outsourcing to business firms, the safeguards adopted by the clients to prevent spillovers may reduce the effectiveness of the supplier's specialized investments. Using original survey data from 170 European and US technology-intensive firms, we find that the contribution of these investments to client performance decreases the more a client's core knowledge is required to perform the service, except when outsourcing to non-profits. This suggests that as the appropriability hazards associated with outsourcing to business firms rise, the client is able to capture less value from the supplier's relationship-specific investments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a relational theory perspective to explore the enablers of and barriers to collaboration in purchasing, helping identify success factors for health care providers to deal with local issues and buying from small and medium sized enterprises.
Abstract: Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in many countries, yet problems with collaboration occur. This article adopts a relational theory perspective to explore the enablers of and barriers to collaboration in purchasing, helping identify success factors. The authors adopted a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology and interviewed 51 senior staffers in the United Kingdom. They found that collaborative public procurement is hindered by local politics and differing priorities, supplier resistance, reliance on suppliers for data, and a lack of common coding systems. Enabling factors for collaborating with local governments include dealing with local issues and buying from small and medium-sized enterprises. For health care providers, important themes are product innovation and ensuring supply. The authors develop a list of enabling factors and show their effect on collaboration success. This may assist policy makers in identifying areas of guidance and help practitioners prevent problems in collaboration.
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TL;DR: CARVE (Context-Aware Relational View dEfinition), a methodology for context-aware view definition, well-suited for the design of modern, dynamic applications that, in different environments and situations, need to access different portions of data.
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TL;DR: Varro et al. as discussed by the authors argue that two main factors have impeded a fruitful discussion, to the extent that even some points of convergence have been neglected, and suggest the task of conceptualization is readdressed by following consistently a discourse-theoretical relational ontology.
Abstract: Varro K. and Lagendijk A. Conceptualizing the region – in what sense relational?, Regional Studies. Recently, the question of how to conceptualize the region seems to have created a division in geographical scholarship between those propagating the primacy of a relational view, on the one hand, and those defending the relevance of a territorial view, on the other. This paper argues that two main factors have impeded a fruitful discussion, to the extent that even some points of convergence have been neglected. First, the two strands have drawn, sometimes implicitly, on incommensurable philosophical assumptions. Second, scholars in favour of a relational view have at times made statements that do not fit well (some of) their philosophical sources of inspiration. The paper suggests the task of conceptualization is readdressed by following consistently a discourse–theoretical relational ontology. 区域 相关性以及空间领域方法 Varro K. and Lagendijk A. 概念化区域-就什么而言是相关的？区域研究。目前关于如何能够概念化区域这个问题在地理学研究者中出现了分歧， 一部分研究者坚持相对性视角，另一部分则坚...
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TL;DR: The proposed theoretical framework suggests IOL can be used to develop capabilities such as innovation and flexibility that, in turn, lead to higher levels of logistics performance and contribute to a fi rm's competitive advantage.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to review literature on interorganizational learning (IOL) and related constructs systematically to develop a theoretical model of IOL. An extensive and systematic literature review was undertaken in major logistics, supply chain, operations, and strategic management journals to identify theories in which a model of IOL could be grounded and to document major relationships related to the concepts of organizational learning and IOL. Using resource-based view, relational view, and knowledge-based view as the theoretical foundations, a conceptual model depicting IOL as a source of a competitive advantage was developed. The proposed theoretical framework suggests IOL can be used to develop capabilities such as innovation and flexibility that, in turn, lead to higher levels of logistics performance and contribute to a fi rm's competitive advantage. Supply chain orientation is an important antecedent to IOL, and cultural distance is an important moderator of IOL. This article contributes to the body of knowledge on IOL by positioning IOL within the framework of received theories and constructs. Implications for managers and several directions for future research are also identified.
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TL;DR: Goodwin et al. as discussed by the authors explored what this relational view might contribute to an understanding of the region's role in promoting sustainability, using the South West region of England as a case study.
Abstract: Goodwin M. Regions, territories and relationality: exploring the regional dimensions of political practice, Regional Studies. Recent conceptual innovations in the discipline of geography have sought to establish the notion of the ‘relational region’. In opposition to the idea that regions are bounded and discrete, lying within a hierarchy of nested scales, the relational view sees a region as open and discontinuous, forged through a set of spatially stretched articulations and networks. This paper explores what this relational view might contribute to an understanding of the region's role in promoting sustainability, using the South West region of England as a case study. It concludes by arguing that regions are constituted through territoriality as well as relationality.
TL;DR: Results highlight the importance of client-specific capabilities and trust as a self-enforcing governance mechanism in a vendor's relational performance in terms of service quality and enrich the understanding of the source of outsourcing relational performance.
TL;DR: The survey results indicate that strategic sourcing significantly impacts buyer‐supplier relationships, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance of buying companies, and the study shows that supplier evaluation significantly influences buyer‐Supplier relationship.
Abstract: Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance outcomes of strategic sourcing, specifically examining how strategic sourcing affects buyer-supplier relationship, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance from the buying firm's perspective in the context of the US textile and apparel industry.Design/methodology/approach– This study provides an empirical investigation of a theory-based model integrating the resource-based view and the relational view of strategic management. The model is tested using data from 180 US textile and apparel firms by structural equation modeling.Findings– The survey results indicate that strategic sourcing significantly impacts buyer-supplier relationships, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance of buying companies. The study also shows that supplier evaluation significantly influences buyer-supplier relationship.Research limitations/implications– Given that the data are from a specific industry, the generalizability of current findings to other industries may require additional investigation.Practical implications– Sourcing becomes a key strategic consideration for textile and apparel firms to sustain or improve their competitiveness.Originality/value– The study contributes to the literature by developing a research model based on a multi-theoretical perspective and conducting a large-scale empirical survey in the textile and apparel industry and analyzing the model by structural equation modeling. The dynamic textile and apparel industry is a classical representation of global supply chain, characterized by the industry's significant contribution to the world economy and international trade, the extremely worldwide spread supply network, and the tremendous competition in global market. Examining strategic sourcing's influences in this important industry provides many valuable implications for industrial practitioners.
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29 Jan 2013TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views, which uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views and publishes a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query.
Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views. The method commences by receiving a named graph, the named graph comprising at least one RDF quad, and analyzing the named graph to produce analysis metadata. The method uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views. The method further comprises publishing a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query. The quality of the results can be quantitatively measured and reported by calculating a goodness score based at least in part on aspects of the relational view definitions. Several variants for transformation include generating relational view definitions formed using a named-graph strict variant, or a named-graph relaxed variant, or a named-graph agnostic variant. The transformations can form outputs responsive to characteristics or properties such as a number of classes, a number of single-valued properties, a number of nullability properties, or a number of type-uniformed ranges.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an integrative model on the franchisor's choice of knowledge transfer strategy by deriving hypotheses from the knowledge-based theory and the relational governance view.
Abstract: This study presents an integrative model on the franchisor's choice of knowledge transfer strategy by deriving hypotheses from the knowledge-based theory and the relational governance view. First, based on the knowledge-based view, tacitness of system-specific knowledge influences the choice of the knowledge transfer strategy of the franchisor. The higher the degree of tacitness of knowledge, the more knowledge-transfer mechanisms with a high degree of information richness (HIR) are used, such as training, seminars, visits and formal meetings, and the more likely the franchisor chooses a personalization strategy (P-S). Conversely, the lower the degree of tacitness of system-specific knowledge, the more knowledge transfer mechanisms with a low degree of information richness (LIR) are used, such as reports, emails, intranet, databases, and the more likely the franchisor chooses a codification strategy. Second, based on the relational view of governance, trust influences the choice of knowledge transfer stra...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed relational lateral IT steering committees, relational IT operational committees, and relational IT performance management systems as IT governance structures for collaborative alliances, and developed a model for approaches to governing collaborative IT, and evaluated the effectiveness for such governance structures in the ITdependent alliances.
Abstract: Organizations today invest in collaborative IT to engage in collaborative alliances to sustain or improve their competitive positions. Effective use of this collaborative IT in an alliance requires a deeper understanding of their governance structures. This effort is to ensure the sustainability of these alliances. Through the relational view of the firm, we suggest relational lateral IT steering committees, relational IT operational committees, and relational IT performance management systems as IT governance structures for collaborative alliances. We then incorporate these structures, develop a model for approaches to governing collaborative IT, and evaluate the effectiveness for such governance structures in the IT-dependent alliances. We suggest that IT governance efforts of an alliance should contribute to their collaborative rent. We also suggest that the collaborative rent of an alliance would relate to the business value of its alliance partners. Field survey data containing 192 responses indicate a positive influence of the suggested IT governance efforts of the alliance on the collaborative rent of the alliance. The results also suggest a positive impact of the collaborative rent of the alliance on the business value of the alliance partners.
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of relationship types (new, approved, preferred, partnership) on buyers' and sellers' power priorities in B2B contexts is assessed, as well as how different relationship types and strategic foci are related to buyers and sellers" power priorities.
10 Nov 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a relational view of strategy framework to measure and assess the sustainable success of base of the pyramid (BoP) projects and apply this method of strategic analysis to selected BoP projects.
Abstract: Purpose – The paper uses a relational view of strategy framework to measure and assess the sustainable success of base of the pyramid (BoP) projects. The authors posit that the relational view is a powerful way to determine if a firm's project might lead to sustainable competitive advantage, because if partner resources combine to create relation‐specific capabilities and competences, they may provide sustainable value, and the paper applies this method of strategic analysis to selected BoP projects.Design/methodology/approach – The paper separates the secondary data analysis from the primary data analysis and offers four propositions, based on the combined relational view and BoP criteria. The authors apply the relational view framework to two BoP projects from Michigan‐based organizations. Each case is analysed using the framework, and the authors discuss how the resources of each of the BoP project partners create value, how tailored and scalable the projects are, how BoP end user needs are addressed, ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of trust on the use of knowledge transfer mechanisms of cluster firms by deriving hypotheses from a relational governance perspective and showed that trust is an additional determinant of the knowledge transfer strategy.
Abstract: This study examines the impact of trust on the use of knowledge transfer mechanisms of cluster firms by deriving hypotheses from a relational governance perspective. Specifically, we analyse the influence of trust on the use of face-to-face knowledge transfer mechanisms in cluster relationships. Based on the relational view of governance, it is argued that trust may influence the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms of the cluster companies in the following way: first, if trust reduces relational risk, an increase in trust will reduce the firms’ use of face-to-face knowledge transfer mechanisms. Second, if trust increases knowledge sharing between the cluster partners, it will increase the firms’ use of face-to-face knowledge transfer mechanisms. The hypotheses are tested by using data from 118 companies in the Italian textile and fashion sectors. Our data from the Italian textile and fashion sector supports the hypothesis that experience-based trust increases knowledge sharing between the cluster partners by increasing the use of face-to-face knowledge transfer mechanisms. It also supports the knowledge-based hypothesis that tacitness influences the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms. The paper extends the knowledge-based view of the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms by showing that trust is an additional determinant of the knowledge transfer strategy.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the multiple mediating effects of opportunism and cooperation on the relationship between relationship-specific investments and partnership performance in the Turkish automotive distribution channel, and found that relationship specific investments mediated by opportunistic behavior and cooperative behavior had a greater positive effect on partnership performance.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between trust, commitment, communication, cooperation, adaptation and interdependence of supply chain resilience and the moderating roles of environmental uncertainty on these relationships.
Abstract: Increases in disruptions coupled with enhanced competition have led firms to develop capabilities to sustain performance and enable them to gain competitive advantage. This has underscored the value of supply chain resilience. Supply chain is a network of multiple firms involved in an exchange relationship; hence, developing effective supply chain resilience requires stronger relationship and collaboration between the associated partners. This forms the foundation for investigating supply chain resilience using a relational view. With the help of theoretical lenses like resource-based view and relational view of firm coupled with dynamic capabilities theory, the study argues that a suitable combination of several relational resources such as trust, commitment, communication, cooperation, adaptation and interdependence will determine the effectiveness of supply chain resilience as a dynamic capability. Accordingly, the study aims to investigate the relationship between these relational resources and supply chain resilience. Further, these relationships might alter with varying levels of environmental uncertainty. To explore this, the moderating roles of environmental uncertainty on these relationships are also considered. Suitable outcomes like supply chain security culture and supply chain business continuity planning are also discussed.
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize findings from two parallel research streams of corporate development activities: strategic alliances and acquisitions Structured in the form of two empirical studies, they examined: 1) the strategic outcomes of alliance experience of previously allying partners in terms of subsequent acquisition attempts, and 2) the performance implications of prior alliance experience for acquisitions.
Abstract: A substantial amount of work in the field of strategic management has attempted to explain the antecedents and outcomes of organizational learning Though multinational corporations simultaneously engage in various types of tasks, activities, and strategies on a regular basis, the transfer of organizational learning in a multi-task context has largely remained under-explored in the literature To inform our understanding in this area, this dissertation aimed at synthesizing findings from two parallel research streams of corporate development activities: strategic alliances and acquisitions Structured in the form of two empirical studies, this dissertation examines: 1) the strategic outcomes of alliance experience of previously allying partners in terms of subsequent acquisition attempts, and 2) the performance implications of prior alliance experience for acquisitions The first study draws on the relational view of inter-organizational governance to explain how various deal-specific and dyadic characteristics of a partnership relate to partnering firms’ post-alliance acquisition attempts This model theorizes on a variety of relational mechanisms to build a cohesive theory of inter-organizational exchanges in a multi-task setting where strategic alliances ultimately lead to a firm’s decision to commit further resources The second study applies organizational learning theory, and specifically examines whether frequency, recency, and relatedness of different dimensions of prior alliances, beyond the dyad-level experience, relate to an acquirer’s superior post-acquisition performance The hypotheses of the studies are tested using logistic and ordinary least square regressions, respectively Results analyzed from a sample of cross-border alliance and acquisition deals attempted (for study I) and/or completed (for study II) during the period of 1991 to 2011 generally support the theory that relational exchange determines acquiring firms’ post alliance acquisition behavior and that organizational routines and learning from prior alliances influence a future acquirer’s financial performance Overall, the empirical findings support our overarching theory of interdependency, and confirm the transfer effect of learning across these alternate, yet related corporate strategies of alliance and acquisition
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TL;DR: The authors developed an organizing framework based on three levels of network analysis (the dyad, the ego, and the whole network) and four theoretical mechanisms (resource access, trust, power/control, and signaling) to organize and review the key findings and debates in the interorganizational network literature.
Abstract: The application of social network analysis to interorganizational contexts has seen an explosion of interest in the past several years. We argue that not only does the network or structural perspective add explanatory power to scholarly understanding of organizations' behavior and outcomes, but that it expands the universe of observed phenomena from an autonomous to a relational view for studying and explaining organizational action and outcomes. We develop an organizing framework based on three levels of network analysis (the dyad, the ego, and the whole network) and four theoretical mechanisms (resource access, trust, power/control, and signaling) to organize and review the key findings and debates in the interorganizational network literature. We point to avenues for future research based on the linkages across the boxes in our framework, gaps in the framework, and finally, extensions beyond the framework.
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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual relational corporate governance framework is designed, grounded on dynamic capability view and stakeholder orientation, sustained by the social system theory, for managing ecosystem's corporate fitness as well as the underlying corporate and board capabilities.
Abstract: The ongoing transformation of corporate governance dominant focus from its traditional toward an integrated multidimensional level denotes actually that the new paradigm is emerging, the one that highlights a holistic governing approach and an augmented, overall corporate responsibility as well as long term corporate success and sustained competitiveness. Within such kind of an extended discipline’s domain the conceptualization of more flexible governance models is needed, supported with the continuous improvement of the corporate governance practice. Consequently, a development of new mechanisms able to provide and maintain corporate fitness in contemporary fast changing business reality and an upgraded approach to governance processes design are required. The paper deals with the idea of conceptualizing the relational corporate governance framework suitable for an integrative, corporate governance system self-regulation, therefore assuring corporate fitness. The theoretical part is based on a literature analysis in corporate governance, corporate reputation, strategic management and organizational studies research. The conceptual relational corporate governance framework is designed, grounded on dynamic capability view and stakeholder orientation, sustained by the social system theory. The outcome of the paper contributes to the underlying conceptual work for corporate governance and strategic management. In details, a theoretical relational based corporate governance concept aimed for managing ecosystem’s corporate fitness as well as the underlying corporate and board capabilities are developed and proposed.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a theoretical framework that employs a stakeholder perspective, linking three approaches on competitive advantage: resource-based view, relational view, and activity-position view.
Abstract: Competitive advantage and stakeholder management are two important research streams that have attracted much attention during the past few decades. Distinctive approaches to studies on competitive advantage exhibit differences in their assumptions, units of analysis, and strategic implications; however, none of them can individually explain the whole concept of competitive advantage. Although competitive advantage is the core issue of strategic management in which stakeholder management is rooted, the two topics have developed seemingly independently in the literature. By focusing on value creation, value protection, and value capture, this paper suggests a theoretical framework that employs a stakeholder perspective, linking three approaches on competitive advantage—the resource-based view, the relational view, and the activity-position view. This framework provides insight to an incomplete picture of competitive advantage in the extant literature.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework to evaluate whether specific rent-based supplier management activities across industries have an impact on performance, based on the four important strategy theory approaches: market based view, resource based view (RBV), capability based view and relational view and their respective rent generation mechanisms.
Abstract: The increasing pace of globalisation and deregulation has changed the role of purchasing and it has evolved from a (traditional) routine to a more prominent strategic function. This research tests and analyses the strategic character of the purchasing function and its ability to create competitive advantages for its company. Based on the four important strategy theory approaches: market–based view, resource–based view (RBV) capability–based view and relational view and their respective rent generation mechanisms, the research framework developed evaluates whether specific rent–based supplier management activities across industries have an impact on performance, as proposed in the strategy literature.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a relational view of strategy is used to investigate how sustainability qualities emerge and how different actors influence, and/or are influenced by a company's ability to develop and establish sustainability qualifications.
Abstract: The academic and practitioner-based literatures often invoke notions such as "corporate sustainability" or 'sustainable firms' without questioning the processes through which these labels are acquired and become firmly established. By focusing on qualification processes, this thesis challenges the usage of these taken-for-granted definitions, aimed at producing stable qualities. This study endorses a relational view of strategy to investigate how sustainability qualities emerge and how different actors influence, and/or are influenced by a company's ability to develop and establish sustainability qualifications. This thesis is positioned at the intersection of the three theoretical frameworks: 1) studies of qualities and qualifications, 2) studies on developing sustainability strategies and creating sustainable firms, and 3) studies that adopt a relational view of strategy (namely Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the Industrial Networks (IN) approach). Drawing on a relational ontology, four case studies were analysed and within these 23 practices contributing to build up sustainability qualities were selected and studied in-depth. The resulting findings led to the development of a framework to investigate the establishment of firms' sustainability qualifications. This framework comprises four types of strategising processes: framing, valuing, enrolling and stabilising. By opening up the discussion from the qualification of goods in consumer markets to the qualification of firms in industrial settings, and by taking a strategic approach to understand qualification-requalification processes, this framework extends previous work developed on qualification processes. This study also adds to the IN approach and to the strategic management literatures by providing an empirical study that describes the relational nature of the processes through which a qualification strategy emerges and the role of non-humans in the processes of strategising. Finally, the thesis contributes to the ongoing debates within IN and the 'greening the business' literature on what constitutes value. It suggests a redirection of focus to analyse processes of valuing, rather than assuming a linear relationship between strategies and value creation. Key words: qualification of firms; sustainability; value and valuation; relational approaches to strategy.
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that SSCM is an opportunity for companies to develop sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, improved or new products, processes, and organizational structures.
Abstract: Supply chain management is increasingly challenged to integrate environmental (e.g. product recyclability) and social issues (e.g. labor conditions) to establish sustainable supply chains. Apart from a risk-orientation in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) companies can also pursue an opportunity-oriented strategy linked to innovation. In this paper we develop the argument that SSCM is an opportunity for companies to develop sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, improved or new products, processes, and organizational structures. For this purpose we focus our analysis on SSCM from the perspective of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as, so far, little is known on how SMEs manage SSCM within the business-toconsumer (B2C) context, even though SMEs are important for sustainable development. We argue that SSCM can play a central role for SOIs of SMEs by making resources accessible through the interaction with primary (e.g. customers, suppliers) and secondary supply chain stakeholders (e.g. competitors, universities). Building on the resource-based and relational view we develop a conceptual framework which discusses how resource flows can occur in the interaction with different supply chain stakeholders. As a result, we explicate theoretical propositions and implications for practice.
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, different perspectives and theories have been taken in explaining supply chain collaboration, including uncertainty reduction theory, transaction cost economics, resource based view, relational view, extended resource-based view, resource dependence theory, social exchange theory and social dilemma theory, trust based rationalism.
Abstract: In the extant literature, different perspectives and theories have been taken in explaining supply chain collaboration . In this chapter, we examine supply chain collaboration using the following ten theories: uncertainty reduction theory, transaction cost economics, resource based view, relational view, extended resource based view , resource dependence theory, social exchange theory, social dilemma theory, trust based rationalism, and learning and knowledge perspective. We describe and compare the relative strength and weakness of each theory in situating the phenomenon of supply chain collaboration . These multiple perspectives provide us with insights into the nature, forms, contents, and forces of supply chain collaboration . We also draw on the key concepts from theories and literature and use them to propose and develop the theoretical framework where supply chain collaboration is the central concept.