Connor Neale O', Lowry Paul Benjamin, Treiblmaier Horst
Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business, Monash University, 47500, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.
Department of Business Information Technology, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, Pamplin Hall, Suite 1007, 880 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Heliyon. 2020 Mar 18;6(3):e03434. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03434. eCollection 2020 Mar.
Never in history have global supply-chain relationships in high-tech electronics firms been more sophisticated, complicated, and almost always tied in some major aspect to China. This research examines how interorganizational (IO) cooperation impacts performance and what role relationship learning and information technology (IT) integration play in the value-creation process for Chinese suppliers in business-to-business (B2B) supply chains. We examine this issue using data collected from face-to-face interviews with supply chain managers and executives from 1,004 Chinese high-tech electronic component suppliers. The results strongly support the hypothesis that IO cooperation improves a supplier's performance regarding both its major customer and overall marketplace. Relationship learning and IT integration are important mediating variables that drive performance. The strongest effect in our study was the influence of IO cooperation on relationship learning. A unique aspect of this study is that it focuses on a large sample of a specific supplier type-high-tech Chinese suppliers. This, combined with the fact that the sampled companies were involved in manufacturing 13 different product groups, greatly increases the generalizability of the results.
在历史上，高科技电子公司的全球供应链关系从未像现在这样复杂、精密，而且几乎在所有主要方面都与中国紧密相连。本研究探讨了组织间（IO）合作如何影响绩效，以及关系学习和信息技术（IT）整合在企业对企业（B2B）供应链中中国供应商的价值创造过程中扮演何种角色。我们通过对1004家中国高科技电子元件供应商的供应链经理和高管进行面对面访谈收集的数据来研究这个问题。结果有力地支持了以下假设：IO合作在主要客户和整体市场方面都能提高供应商的绩效。关系学习和IT整合是推动绩效的重要中介变量。我们研究中最显著的影响是IO合作对关系学习的影响。本研究的一个独特之处在于，它关注的是特定供应商类型（中国高科技供应商）的大量样本。再加上抽样公司涉及制造13个不同产品组这一事实，大大提高了研究结果的普遍性。
