Evaluating the effects of supply chain quality management on food firms' performance: The mediating role of food certification and reputation. Issue 10 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Song, Hua; Turson, Rabia; Ganguly, Anirban; Yu, Kangkang
• Is Part Of: International journal of operations & production management. Volume 37:Issue 10(2017)
• Page Start: 1541
• Page End: 1562
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Reputation -- Domestic and overseas performance -- Food certification -- Intra-/inter-supply chain quality management; Production management -- Periodicals; Business logistics -- Periodicals; 658.5
• DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-11-2015-0666
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0144-3577

Abstract

Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the two kinds of supply chain quality management (SCQM) capabilities: intra-SCQM and inter-SCQM, and explore the effect of intra- and inter-food SCQM on food safety and quality, and the effect of food SCQM on domestic and export performance through food certification and corporate reputation. Design/methodology/approach: Secondary data on food selling or processing firms in Western China were collected to test all the hypotheses. The data were then analyzed using the statistical technique of stepwise regression and inference was drawn based on the result. Findings: Through utilizing secondary data sources, it is found that intra-SCQM promotes sales in domestics market with mediating role of corporate reputation, while the realization of overseas performance depend both on intra- and inter-SCQM with mediating role of food certification. Practical implications: The paper study on food supply chain quality problem, the suggested approaches can be easily realized by agro-food companies to achieve international competitiveness by implementing both intra- and inter-SCQM. Meanwhile to Chinese domestic companies, it is important to strengthen inter-SCQM and food certification in order to achieve competitive advantage. Originality/value: Review of literature indicated that there is a dearth of open literature that discusses food safety from the perspective of inter- and intra-organizational management. Furthermore, it was also observed that there has been no study that has taken the safety signaling perspective. The current research tires to shed some light on this important, but sparely discussed issue.