scholarly journals Supply Chain Incentive Alignment: The Gap between Perceived Importance and Actual Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Norrman ◽  
Dag Naslund
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Incentive Alignment ◽  
Perceived Importance

scholarly journals Managerial Views of Supply Chain Collaboration: An Empirical Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramaswami Sridharan ◽  
Togar M Simatupang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Incentive Alignment ◽  
Managerial Perceptions ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Relationship

  This paper is carried out to empirically examine managerial perceptions on the relationship between supply chain collaboration practice and operational performance. The framework suggests that collaborative practice is characterised by three distinct factors: (1) decision synchronisation, (2) information sharing, and (3) incentive alignment, which enable the chain members to effectively match supply with customer demand. An important question is whether or not collaborative practice leads to better operational performance. A survey research was employed to assess the relationship between collaborative practice and operational performance of New Zealand companies. The survey results show significant positive impacts of key factors of collaborative practice on operational performance. The findings suggest that information sharing, decision synchronisation, and incentive alignment are important determinants of operational performance. This study demonstrates that the chain members need to understand the role of different key factors of collaborative practice that can be redesigned to leverage operational performance.

The role of cognitive proximity on supply chain collaboration for radical and incremental innovation: a study of a transition economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Anh Thi Nguyen ◽  
Hui Lei ◽  
Khoa Dinh Vu ◽  
Phong Ba Le
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Incentive Alignment ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of cognitive proximity on supply chain collaboration and how it relates to radical and incremental innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on quantitative approach to analyze the data of 218 firms in a developing and transition economy. The proposal model is tested with exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThe authors’ findings show that cognitive proximity facilitates decision synchronization and incentive alignment in the supply chain. Furthermore, the authors’ results indicate that information sharing and decision synchronization are determinants of radical innovation while incentive alignment is a determinant of incremental innovation.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was cross-sectional, so the authors could not consider the control variable such as sectors or firms’ size. It is hard to control the specific features of cognitive proximity in one single industry when using cross-sectional data. In future investigations, it may be possible to use a different dimension of proximity to explain the implementation of collaboration for innovation.Originality/valueThis study attempted to explore the role of cognitive proximity on supply chain implementation process in the context of a transition economy. Moreover, the authors’ findings provide the clearer understanding of the relationship between collaboration and innovation.

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