Conclusions
Literature review and the preliminary interviews with SSCM experts helped us consolidate the conceptual model to local practices. Our study indicated that the five influential factors of SSCM are important from both the academic and the industrial perspectives. The results of the survey attested to the concurrence of the influential factors in the literature review, and proved that the five influential factors of our SSCM model are prominent in the organizational practices in both Taiwan and Vietnam. This answered the first and second research questions we delivered in the introduction. Another valuable contribution of this study is the utilization of the industrial and the administrative cases from Vietnam and Taiwan to explicate the quantitative differences of the SSCM survey, which also answered the third question of this study.
It was concluded that the social, economic and environmental pressures from stakeholders such as the public or the administration and the eagerness to meet rigorous green standards in some areas are still the critical motivators for SSCM adoption. We advocated that practical research and professional training in SSCM should be involved from the beginning phase of a companyˈs SSCM implementation because of the uncertainty or risks of SSCM employment, the deficiency of the latest SSCM knowledge and the specific characteristics of every corporation.
