Sharma Amalesh, Kumar V, Borah Sourav Bikash, Adhikary Anirban
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.
Tobin College of Business, St. John's University, New York, NY USA.
J Int Bus Stud. 2022;53(5):850-878. doi: 10.1057/s41267-021-00497-0. Epub 2022 Mar 7.
The literature on marketing, operations management, and strategy has investigated the impacts of a firm's supplier network structure and complexity on its financial, environmental, and innovation performance. However, our understanding of how the global supply chain complexities of a multinational enterprise (MNE) affect its international business performance (IBP) is limited. We draw on both the business network theory and information search literature to propose that the various complexity dimensions (e.g., horizontal, vertical, and spatial) of an MNE's global supply chain have different influences on its subsequent IBP. We argue - and empirically validate - that collaboration, a network orchestration mechanism, enables an MNE to leverage the benefits of complex relationships. Using a dataset of 185 firms taken from multiple industries over 6 years, we show how such complexities have differential effects. In multiple post hoc analyses, we demonstrate how an MNE's marketing intensity, the interconnectedness among its supply members, and its top management team (TMT)'s international experience all have unique impacts. This study contributes to the existing literature on global supply chain complexity by demonstrating how it can influence MNEs' IBP. Moreover, we contribute to the strategic IBP literature by outlining effective global supply chain improvement strategies.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41267-021-00497-0.
市场营销、运营管理和战略领域的文献研究了企业供应商网络结构和复杂性对其财务、环境和创新绩效的影响。然而，我们对跨国企业（MNE）的全球供应链复杂性如何影响其国际商业绩效（IBP）的理解仍然有限。我们借鉴商业网络理论和信息搜索文献，提出跨国企业全球供应链的各种复杂性维度（如横向、纵向和空间维度）对其后续的国际商业绩效有不同的影响。我们认为——并通过实证验证——协作作为一种网络协调机制，能使跨国企业利用复杂关系带来的好处。我们使用一个包含来自多个行业的185家公司、历时6年的数据样本，展示了这些复杂性是如何产生不同影响的。在多个事后分析中，我们证明了跨国企业的营销强度、其供应成员之间的相互联系以及其高层管理团队（TMT）的国际经验都有独特的影响。本研究通过展示全球供应链复杂性如何影响跨国企业的国际商业绩效，为现有关于全球供应链复杂性的文献做出了贡献。此外，我们通过概述有效的全球供应链改进策略，为国际商业绩效的战略文献做出了贡献。
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