Order from chaos: A meta-analysis of supply chain complexity and firm performance

IF 10.2 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Supply Chain Management Pub Date : 2021-05-03 DOI:10.1111/jscm.12264

Melek Ak?n Ate?, Robert Suurmond, Davide Luzzini, Daniel Krause

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Abstract

Increased globalization, varying customer requirements, extended product lines, uncertainty regarding supplier performance, and myriad related factors make supply chains utterly complex. While previous research indicates that supply chain complexity plays an important role in explaining performance outcomes, the accumulating evidence is ambiguous. Thus, a finer-grained analysis is required. By meta-analyzing 27,668 observations across 102 independent samples from 123 empirical studies, we examine the link between supply chain complexity and firm performance. While the preponderance of evidence from previous studies identifies supply chain complexity as detrimental to firm performance, our results illustrate that although supply chain complexity has a negative effect on operational performance, it has a positive effect on innovation performance and financial performance. Furthermore, we also distinguish among different levels of supply chain (i.e., upstream, downstream, and internal) and observe nuanced findings. Finally, our findings also reveal moderating effects of construct operationalization and study design characteristics. We discuss implications for theory and practice and provide avenues for future research.

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混乱中的秩序:供应链复杂性与企业绩效的元分析

日益增长的全球化、不断变化的客户需求、延伸的产品线、供应商绩效的不确定性以及无数相关因素使供应链变得极其复杂。虽然先前的研究表明供应链复杂性在解释绩效结果方面起着重要作用，但积累的证据是模糊的。因此，需要更细粒度的分析。通过对来自123个实证研究的102个独立样本的27,668个观察结果进行meta分析，我们检验了供应链复杂性与企业绩效之间的联系。虽然先前研究的绝大多数证据表明供应链复杂性不利于企业绩效，但我们的研究结果表明，尽管供应链复杂性对运营绩效有负面影响，但它对创新绩效和财务绩效有积极影响。此外，我们还区分了供应链的不同层次(即，上游、下游和内部)，并观察到细微的发现。最后，我们的研究结果还揭示了结构操作化和研究设计特征的调节作用。我们讨论了理论和实践的意义，并为未来的研究提供了途径。

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Journal of Supply Chain Management MANAGEMENT-

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16.00

自引率

6.60%

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期刊介绍： ournal of Supply Chain Management Mission: The mission of the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) is to be the premier choice among supply chain management scholars from various disciplines. It aims to attract high-quality, impactful behavioral research that focuses on theory building and employs rigorous empirical methodologies. Article Requirements: An article published in JSCM must make a significant contribution to supply chain management theory. This contribution can be achieved through either an inductive, theory-building process or a deductive, theory-testing approach. This contribution may manifest in various ways, such as falsification of conventional understanding, theory-building through conceptual development, inductive or qualitative research, initial empirical testing of a theory, theoretically-based meta-analysis, or constructive replication that clarifies the boundaries or range of a theory. Theoretical Contribution: Manuscripts should explicitly convey the theoretical contribution relative to the existing supply chain management literature, and when appropriate, to the literature outside of supply chain management (e.g., management theory, psychology, economics). Empirical Contribution: Manuscripts published in JSCM must also provide strong empirical contributions. While conceptual manuscripts are welcomed, they must significantly advance theory in the field of supply chain management and be firmly grounded in existing theory and relevant literature. For empirical manuscripts, authors must adequately assess validity, which is essential for empirical research, whether quantitative or qualitative.