Building Parallel Supply Chains: How the Manufacturing Location Decision Influences Supply Chain Ambidexterity

IF 4.5 2区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Hamid Moradlou, Albachiara Boffelli, Deodat Edward Mwesiumo, Amy Benstead, Samuel Roscoe, Sanaa Khayyam
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how managers can develop ‘parallel’ supply chains to overcome the efficiency/flexibility trade-offs of offshored versus reshored/nearshored production. Primary evidence is gathered from 22 field interviews with eight companies from multiple countries, all operating in the textile and apparel industry. The interview data is triangulated using a cross-industry focus group with 28 participants and secondary sources including company annual reports and website information. The study contributes to organizational ambidexterity theory by identifying how companies embed structural ambidexterity in their supply chains, and in so doing create ‘parallel supply chains’. Our findings show that companies partition their production in terms of width (meaning that specific product lines were relocated) and depth (meaning that specific production activities were relocated). Companies then use a mix of offshored production facilities to manufacture low-margin, long-lead-time products as well as reshored/nearshored production facilities to make high-margin, quick-response items. The ability to swap production volumes between parallel supply chains enables supply chain ambidexterity, which in turn allows companies to exploit efficiency and flexibility benefits simultaneously. Managers are provided with an empirically informed, step-by-step framework for developing structural ambidexterity and building parallel supply chains.

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构建平行供应链:制造区位决策对供应链双元性的影响
本文的目的是研究管理者如何开发“平行”供应链,以克服离岸与再离岸/近岸生产的效率/灵活性权衡。主要证据来自对来自多个国家的八家公司的22次实地采访,这些公司都从事纺织和服装行业。采访数据是使用一个由28名参与者组成的跨行业焦点小组和包括公司年度报告和网站信息在内的二级来源进行三角测量的。该研究通过确定公司如何在其供应链中嵌入结构二元性,并以此创建“平行供应链”,为组织二元性理论做出了贡献。我们的研究结果表明,公司根据宽度(意味着特定的产品线被重新定位)和深度(意味着具体的生产活动被重新定位的)来划分其生产。然后,公司混合使用离岸生产设施来生产低利润、长交付周期的产品,以及重新开采/近岸生产设施来制造高利润、快速反应的产品。在平行供应链之间交换产量的能力使供应链具有灵活性,这反过来又使公司能够同时利用效率和灵活性优势。为管理者提供了一个经验丰富、循序渐进的框架,用于发展结构的灵活性和构建平行供应链。
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期刊介绍: The British Journal of Management provides a valuable outlet for research and scholarship on management-orientated themes and topics. It publishes articles of a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature as well as empirical research from within traditional disciplines and managerial functions. With contributions from around the globe, the journal includes articles across the full range of business and management disciplines. A subscription to British Journal of Management includes International Journal of Management Reviews, also published on behalf of the British Academy of Management.
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