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The contingency effects of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply chain integration and operational performance
Author(s) -
Wong Chee Yew,
Boonitt Sakun,
Wong Christina W.Y.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.649
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1873-1317
pISSN - 0272-6963
DOI - 10.1016/j.jom.2011.01.003
Subject(s) - contingency theory , contingency , flexibility (engineering) , supply chain , automotive industry , supply chain management , process management , business , product (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , industrial organization , computer science , marketing , knowledge management , economics , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , management , mathematics , epistemology , aerospace engineering
This paper extends prior supply chain research by building and empirically testing a theoretical model of the contingency effects of environmental uncertainty (EU) on the relationships between three dimensions of supply chain integration and four dimensions of operational performance. Based on the contingency and organizational information processing theories, we argue that under a high EU, the associations between supplier/customer integration, and delivery and flexibility performance, and those between internal integration, and product quality and production cost, will be strengthened. These theoretical propositions are largely confirmed by multi‐group and structural path analyses of survey responses collected from 151 of Thailand's automotive manufacturing plants. This paper contributes to operations management contingency research and provides theory‐driven and empirically proven explanations for managers to differentiate the effects of internal and external integration efforts under different environmental conditions.