International Journal of Production Economics, Jun 1, 2012
Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is a key foc... more Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is a key focus of recent supply chain management research. This study investigates the role of supply chain integration in mediating the effects of product and process modularity strategies on service performance. Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) provides the theoretical context. The study provides empirical support for the importance of considering product and process strategies in understanding the impact of integration on performance. Canonical correlation analysis and effects decomposition are used to test the research model. The results demonstrate that customer integration mediates the linkages from product modularity and process modularity to delivery performance, as well as mediating the relationship between process modularity and support performance. In contrast, supplier integration mediates the relationship between process modularity and delivery performance only. The overall lack of support for a direct relationship between process modularity and service performance suggests that modular processes (1) lack intrinsic interfaces such as those found in modular product architectures and (2) rely upon integration to fill the role of interface. Product modularity and process modularity are both shown to be related to supplier integration and customer integration, suggesting that they engender integration across a supply chain.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2019
Supply chains are becoming increasingly dynamic in response to changing business environments and... more Supply chains are becoming increasingly dynamic in response to changing business environments and technology. This has created challenges in managing the flow of materials and created greater risk of disruption. As such this study investigates the impact of such dynamism on disruption orientations, resilience, and financial performance. Herein an integrated conceptual framework is developed and then tested using survey data from a cross section of 241 Chinese companies and structural equation modelling. The results of the study reveal that supply chain dynamism has a significant positive effect on supply chain disruption orientation and supply chain resilience. Supply chain resilience is also affected by supply chain disruption orientation. However, the financial performance impacts of supply chain disruption orientation are strictly through supply chain resilience.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2021
This is a repository copy of Integrating big data analytics into supply chain finance: The roles ... more This is a repository copy of Integrating big data analytics into supply chain finance: The roles of information processing and data-driven culture.
Wantao Yu is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Roehampton. His research... more Wantao Yu is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Roehampton. His research interests include supply chain integration, integrated green supply chain management, and retail operations and logistics. His work has been published in journals such as International
This study develops and tests a primary conceptual model of the direct effects of business enviro... more This study develops and tests a primary conceptual model of the direct effects of business environment on supply chain integration (SCI), and an alternative moderation model to better understand the role of the environment in developing integration and financial performance improvement. Structural equation modelling and moderated regression are used to analyse survey data collected from manufacturing firms in China. The results reveal significant positive relationships between environmental dynamism and all three dimensions of SCI, and between environmental hostility and internal integration. The results also indicate that internal integration fully mediates the relationships between environmental hostility and both customer and supplier integration. Supplier integration is significantly and positively associated with financial performance, whereas internal and customer integration are not significantly associated with performance. Importantly, through the test of an alternative model, environmental hostility and environmental dynamism are shown to affect SCI directly, rather than moderating the SCIperformance relationship. This study provides useful guidelines for managers to develop integrated supply chains to improve financial performance under dynamic and hostile environments.
Business leaders are concerned about the impacts of increasing levels of product portfolio comple... more Business leaders are concerned about the impacts of increasing levels of product portfolio complexity since many sense that complexity related costs such as order management, procurement, and inventory threaten to undermine operational efficiencies and consume profits. Even so, managers do not fully understand the extent and breadth of the impacts of product portfolio complexity. A more complete understanding of the operational effects of product portfolio complexity is lacking partially because researchers have not yet offered a robust theoretical perspective or studied it in a focused controlled way; until now. Herein, measures of product portfolio complexity are developed and related to sales volume and supply chain costs. Revealed are nonlinearities which imply optimal portfolio configurations and an approach to quantifying the most profitable configurations. This book is of interest to the corporate manager or consultant seeking a greater understanding of the topic and wanting ...
majoring in operations management with an emphasis on product development. His research interests... more majoring in operations management with an emphasis on product development. His research interests involve advancing theory in managerially relevant ways in the areas of product complexity, organizational performance, and operations strategy. His dissertation investigates theoretical relationships between product complexity and demand and supply chain costs. Prior to beginning an academic career, Mark consulted for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, held positions at IBM
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether the fit between innovativeness and lean pr... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether the fit between innovativeness and lean practices (LPs) can affect triple bottom line (TBL) performance. Two types of fit are tested: fit-as-mediation in which innovativeness creates TBL performance through the mediation of LPs and fit-as-moderation whereby the effects of innovativeness on TBL performance are moderated by LPs.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modelling and moderated regression are used to test the fit-as-mediation and fit-as-moderation models using survey data collected from 241 manufacturers in China.FindingsThe results show that innovativeness is positively associated with LPs that emphasize operational excellence. Innovativeness indirectly affects all three TBL dimensions through the mediation of LPs, and LPs do not moderate the effects of innovativeness. The applicability of fit-as-mediation model suggests directing attention towards integrating innovation and LPs within same organizational unit...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
Purpose It remains unclear how environmental scanning (ES) can generate firm performance through ... more Purpose It remains unclear how environmental scanning (ES) can generate firm performance through supply chain management (SCM) practices. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of ES on operational performance through supply chain integration (SCI) and supply chain responsiveness (SCR). Design/methodology/approach The scanning–interpretation–action–performance (SIAP) model and organization information processing theory (OIPT) are used to explain the ES–SCI–SCR–performance (S–I–A–P) relationships, which were tested by structural equation modeling of survey data of 329 manufacturing firms in China. Findings The results indicate that ES has a significant positive effect on SCI and SCR. SCI is significantly and positively related to SCR. SCR partially mediates the relationship between ES and operational performance, and fully mediates the relationship between SCI and operational performance. Practical implications Supply chain managers should collaborate with senior exe...
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Despite the importance and relevance of data-driven supply chains, there has been very limited em... more Despite the importance and relevance of data-driven supply chains, there has been very limited empirical research that investigates how big data-driven supply chains affect supply chain capabilities. Drawing on the resource-based view, this study explores the effect of data-driven supply chain capabilities on financial performance. The data for this study were gathered from China's manufacturing industry and analysed using structural equation modelling. The results indicate that a data-driven supply chain has a significant positive effect on the four dimensions of supply chain capabilities. Coordination and supply chain responsiveness are positively and significantly related to financial performance.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2015
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
While recent conceptual research and consultancy white papers have suggested that analysing and i... more While recent conceptual research and consultancy white papers have suggested that analysing and interpreting data in the supply chain could potentially lead to the creation of competitive advantage, its exploratory nature demands empirical investigation. Drawing upon the resource based-view, this study empirically investigates the linkages between data-driven supply chains, manufacturing capability, and customer satisfaction. The survey data for this study were gathered from China's manufacturing industry and analysed using structural equation modelling. Results suggest that data-driven supply chains are positively associated with multiple manufacturing capability dimensions (i.e., quality, delivery, flexibility and cost), which in turn, lead to customer satisfaction improvement. While delivery appears to have no significant effect on customer satisfaction, quality, flexibility and cost are significantly and positively associated with customer satisfaction. This study provides insight into the connection between supply chain big data intelligence and both operational and organizational performance improvement.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2017
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
Although previous research has addressed the interface and logical association among marketing, i... more Although previous research has addressed the interface and logical association among marketing, information technology (IT), and supply chain management (SCM) there have been few, if any, attempts to investigate how IT capability and marketing capability influence supply chain integration (SCI). Thus, this study investigates the direct and interactive effects of IT capability and marketing capability on SCI. The hypothesised relationships were tested using survey data gathered from 329 firms in China's manufacturing industry. The results reveal that both IT capability and marketing capability have a significant positive effect on SCI. Interestingly, no significant interaction effect was found, indicating that marketing IT capability and marketing capability influence SCI independently, and not synergistically. However, while IT capability and marketing capability do not interact, IT capability does mediate the impact of marketing capability on SCI.
... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre... more ... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre & Srinivasan, 1990; Meeker, Parikh, & Jhaveri, 2009; Meyer & ... However, research shows that in practice the benefits of pooling are often not realized (Amit & Livnat, 1988; Narasimhan & ...
... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre... more ... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre & Srinivasan, 1990; Meeker, Parikh, & Jhaveri, 2009; Meyer & ... However, research shows that in practice the benefits of pooling are often not realized (Amit & Livnat, 1988; Narasimhan & ...
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of organizational culture and rewards i... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of organizational culture and rewards in stimulating the sharing and gaining of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach -Hierarchical regression using survey data.
International Journal of Production Economics, Jun 1, 2012
Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is a key foc... more Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is a key focus of recent supply chain management research. This study investigates the role of supply chain integration in mediating the effects of product and process modularity strategies on service performance. Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) provides the theoretical context. The study provides empirical support for the importance of considering product and process strategies in understanding the impact of integration on performance. Canonical correlation analysis and effects decomposition are used to test the research model. The results demonstrate that customer integration mediates the linkages from product modularity and process modularity to delivery performance, as well as mediating the relationship between process modularity and support performance. In contrast, supplier integration mediates the relationship between process modularity and delivery performance only. The overall lack of support for a direct relationship between process modularity and service performance suggests that modular processes (1) lack intrinsic interfaces such as those found in modular product architectures and (2) rely upon integration to fill the role of interface. Product modularity and process modularity are both shown to be related to supplier integration and customer integration, suggesting that they engender integration across a supply chain.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2019
Supply chains are becoming increasingly dynamic in response to changing business environments and... more Supply chains are becoming increasingly dynamic in response to changing business environments and technology. This has created challenges in managing the flow of materials and created greater risk of disruption. As such this study investigates the impact of such dynamism on disruption orientations, resilience, and financial performance. Herein an integrated conceptual framework is developed and then tested using survey data from a cross section of 241 Chinese companies and structural equation modelling. The results of the study reveal that supply chain dynamism has a significant positive effect on supply chain disruption orientation and supply chain resilience. Supply chain resilience is also affected by supply chain disruption orientation. However, the financial performance impacts of supply chain disruption orientation are strictly through supply chain resilience.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2021
This is a repository copy of Integrating big data analytics into supply chain finance: The roles ... more This is a repository copy of Integrating big data analytics into supply chain finance: The roles of information processing and data-driven culture.
Wantao Yu is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Roehampton. His research... more Wantao Yu is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Roehampton. His research interests include supply chain integration, integrated green supply chain management, and retail operations and logistics. His work has been published in journals such as International
This study develops and tests a primary conceptual model of the direct effects of business enviro... more This study develops and tests a primary conceptual model of the direct effects of business environment on supply chain integration (SCI), and an alternative moderation model to better understand the role of the environment in developing integration and financial performance improvement. Structural equation modelling and moderated regression are used to analyse survey data collected from manufacturing firms in China. The results reveal significant positive relationships between environmental dynamism and all three dimensions of SCI, and between environmental hostility and internal integration. The results also indicate that internal integration fully mediates the relationships between environmental hostility and both customer and supplier integration. Supplier integration is significantly and positively associated with financial performance, whereas internal and customer integration are not significantly associated with performance. Importantly, through the test of an alternative model, environmental hostility and environmental dynamism are shown to affect SCI directly, rather than moderating the SCIperformance relationship. This study provides useful guidelines for managers to develop integrated supply chains to improve financial performance under dynamic and hostile environments.
Business leaders are concerned about the impacts of increasing levels of product portfolio comple... more Business leaders are concerned about the impacts of increasing levels of product portfolio complexity since many sense that complexity related costs such as order management, procurement, and inventory threaten to undermine operational efficiencies and consume profits. Even so, managers do not fully understand the extent and breadth of the impacts of product portfolio complexity. A more complete understanding of the operational effects of product portfolio complexity is lacking partially because researchers have not yet offered a robust theoretical perspective or studied it in a focused controlled way; until now. Herein, measures of product portfolio complexity are developed and related to sales volume and supply chain costs. Revealed are nonlinearities which imply optimal portfolio configurations and an approach to quantifying the most profitable configurations. This book is of interest to the corporate manager or consultant seeking a greater understanding of the topic and wanting ...
majoring in operations management with an emphasis on product development. His research interests... more majoring in operations management with an emphasis on product development. His research interests involve advancing theory in managerially relevant ways in the areas of product complexity, organizational performance, and operations strategy. His dissertation investigates theoretical relationships between product complexity and demand and supply chain costs. Prior to beginning an academic career, Mark consulted for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, held positions at IBM
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether the fit between innovativeness and lean pr... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether the fit between innovativeness and lean practices (LPs) can affect triple bottom line (TBL) performance. Two types of fit are tested: fit-as-mediation in which innovativeness creates TBL performance through the mediation of LPs and fit-as-moderation whereby the effects of innovativeness on TBL performance are moderated by LPs.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modelling and moderated regression are used to test the fit-as-mediation and fit-as-moderation models using survey data collected from 241 manufacturers in China.FindingsThe results show that innovativeness is positively associated with LPs that emphasize operational excellence. Innovativeness indirectly affects all three TBL dimensions through the mediation of LPs, and LPs do not moderate the effects of innovativeness. The applicability of fit-as-mediation model suggests directing attention towards integrating innovation and LPs within same organizational unit...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
Purpose It remains unclear how environmental scanning (ES) can generate firm performance through ... more Purpose It remains unclear how environmental scanning (ES) can generate firm performance through supply chain management (SCM) practices. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of ES on operational performance through supply chain integration (SCI) and supply chain responsiveness (SCR). Design/methodology/approach The scanning–interpretation–action–performance (SIAP) model and organization information processing theory (OIPT) are used to explain the ES–SCI–SCR–performance (S–I–A–P) relationships, which were tested by structural equation modeling of survey data of 329 manufacturing firms in China. Findings The results indicate that ES has a significant positive effect on SCI and SCR. SCI is significantly and positively related to SCR. SCR partially mediates the relationship between ES and operational performance, and fully mediates the relationship between SCI and operational performance. Practical implications Supply chain managers should collaborate with senior exe...
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Despite the importance and relevance of data-driven supply chains, there has been very limited em... more Despite the importance and relevance of data-driven supply chains, there has been very limited empirical research that investigates how big data-driven supply chains affect supply chain capabilities. Drawing on the resource-based view, this study explores the effect of data-driven supply chain capabilities on financial performance. The data for this study were gathered from China's manufacturing industry and analysed using structural equation modelling. The results indicate that a data-driven supply chain has a significant positive effect on the four dimensions of supply chain capabilities. Coordination and supply chain responsiveness are positively and significantly related to financial performance.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2015
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
While recent conceptual research and consultancy white papers have suggested that analysing and i... more While recent conceptual research and consultancy white papers have suggested that analysing and interpreting data in the supply chain could potentially lead to the creation of competitive advantage, its exploratory nature demands empirical investigation. Drawing upon the resource based-view, this study empirically investigates the linkages between data-driven supply chains, manufacturing capability, and customer satisfaction. The survey data for this study were gathered from China's manufacturing industry and analysed using structural equation modelling. Results suggest that data-driven supply chains are positively associated with multiple manufacturing capability dimensions (i.e., quality, delivery, flexibility and cost), which in turn, lead to customer satisfaction improvement. While delivery appears to have no significant effect on customer satisfaction, quality, flexibility and cost are significantly and positively associated with customer satisfaction. This study provides insight into the connection between supply chain big data intelligence and both operational and organizational performance improvement.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2017
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
Although previous research has addressed the interface and logical association among marketing, i... more Although previous research has addressed the interface and logical association among marketing, information technology (IT), and supply chain management (SCM) there have been few, if any, attempts to investigate how IT capability and marketing capability influence supply chain integration (SCI). Thus, this study investigates the direct and interactive effects of IT capability and marketing capability on SCI. The hypothesised relationships were tested using survey data gathered from 329 firms in China's manufacturing industry. The results reveal that both IT capability and marketing capability have a significant positive effect on SCI. Interestingly, no significant interaction effect was found, indicating that marketing IT capability and marketing capability influence SCI independently, and not synergistically. However, while IT capability and marketing capability do not interact, IT capability does mediate the impact of marketing capability on SCI.
... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre... more ... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre & Srinivasan, 1990; Meeker, Parikh, & Jhaveri, 2009; Meyer & ... However, research shows that in practice the benefits of pooling are often not realized (Amit & Livnat, 1988; Narasimhan & ...
... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre... more ... complexity is managed effectively (Desai, Kekre, Radhakrishnan, & Srinivasan, 2001; Kekre & Srinivasan, 1990; Meeker, Parikh, & Jhaveri, 2009; Meyer & ... However, research shows that in practice the benefits of pooling are often not realized (Amit & Livnat, 1988; Narasimhan & ...
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of organizational culture and rewards i... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of organizational culture and rewards in stimulating the sharing and gaining of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach -Hierarchical regression using survey data.
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