Competitor actions, customer integration, and supply chain responsiveness: A contingency–capability-based view. Issue 1 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ataburo, Henry; Anin, Emmanuel Kwabena; Ampong, Getrude Effah; Muntaka, Abdul Samed
• Is Part Of: Journal of inter-organizational relationships. Volume 28:Issue 1/2(2022)
• Page Start: 35
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Customer integration -- supply chain responsiveness -- competitor aggressiveness and innovativeness -- contingency–capability-based view -- Ghana; Organizational behavior -- Periodicals; Organizational effectiveness -- Periodicals; Communication in management -- Periodicals; 658.005
• DOI: 10.1080/26943980.2022.2100859
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2694-3999

Abstract

Abstract: Conventional wisdom suggests that market forces such as competitor aggressiveness and competitor innovativeness induce supply chain responsiveness. However, this assertion does not only lack empirical evidence but also the mechanisms that explain the supply chain responsiveness effects of market forces are under-theorized. Drawing on the contingency–capability perspective, this research develops and tests the argument that customer integration is a critical boundary-spanning capability that translates competitor aggressiveness and innovativeness into enhanced supply chain responsiveness. Empirical results based on survey data from 117 firms in Ghana reveal that both market forces are not directly related to supply chain responsiveness. Additional results, however, show that customer integration mediates the competitor aggressiveness and innovativeness-supply chain responsiveness relationships. In contributing to the limited knowledge of the determinants of responsive supply chains, this article shows that external environmental factors are essential but might be insufficient for accounting for the heterogeneity in supply chain responsiveness.