دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی نقش جهت گیری زنجیره تامین در دستیابی به پایداری زنجیره تامین - الزویر 2018

Abstract

Supply chain orientation (SCO) has the potential to contribute to supply chain sustainability performance. The literature, however, has not determined whether SCO has a direct effect on supply chain sustainability performance, nor has it differentiated between the effects of different categories of SCO on supply chain sustainability performance. A SEM analysis of data collected from supply chain managers determined that the SCO construct of supply chain collaboration and communication could directly affect both supply chain environmental and social sustainability performance. The SCO construct of internal supply chain coordination, however, affected only supply chain environmental sustainability performance and this effect was mediated by the organisation’s internal supply chain sustainability practices. A second path between supply chain collaboration and communication and supply chain environmental sustainability performance, which was mediated by internal supply chain sustainability practices was also identified. These findings indicate that different SCO constructs have different effect pathways in relation to supply chain sustainability performance. The identification of the different effects of different categories of SCO and the SCO – performance relationship has important implications for SCO research design.

Conclusion

This study tested the effects on SCSP of two new SCO constructs developed from the literature. The construct of external supply chain collaboration and communication was found to directly affect both external supply chain environmental and external supply chain social sustainability performance. This introduces the decision – performance concept for the relationship between SCO and supply chain performance to the literature. The construct of internal supply chain coordination was found only to significantly affect external supply chain environmental sustainability performance and this effect was found to be mediated by internal supply chain sustainability practices. Supply chain collaboration and communication was also found to have a second, mediated effect on external supply chain environmental sustainability performance. The findings indicate that both internally and externally focused constructs can affect external supply chain environmental and social sustainability performance, but according to different pathways. The extant literature does not focus on the direct relationship between SCO and external supply chain performance, eg Mariadoss, Chi, Tansuhaj, and Pomirleanu (2016) and Signori et al. (2015). In addition, it does not consider the different types of effects of these two categories of SCO or the mediating effect of internal supply chain sustainability practices on this relationship identified in this research. Combining variables from the two construct groups without considering their different effects is likely to affect the result of the relationships they are used to test. These findings answered the research question: “What is the difference between the effects of different supply chain orientation constructs on external supply chain sustainability performance?” by identifying significant relationships between external supply chain sustainability performance and two different constructs not previously identified in the extant literature.