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DEVELOPING SOCIAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
Min Soonhong,
Kim Stephen K.,
Chen Haozhe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of business logistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2158-1592
pISSN - 0735-3766
DOI - 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2008.tb00079.x
Subject(s) - supply chain , supply chain management , business , supply chain risk management , industrial organization , salience (neuroscience) , social capital , service management , competition (biology) , demand chain , social identity theory , marketing , social group , psychology , ecology , social science , sociology , cognitive psychology , biology , social psychology
Competition involves not firm against firm but rather supply chain against supply chain, but few studies explain theoretically the subsistence of a supply chain as a social entity or the operating mechanisms through which firms socialize to obtain better business performance. On the bases of social identity theory and social capital theory, the authors suggest that the salience of supply chain identity accumulates social capital in a supply chain, which then facilitates supply chain management and improves business performance.