Supply chain organizational infrastructure for promoting entrepreneurial emphasis and innovativeness: The role of trust and learning.

Authors

Divesh Ojha, University of North Texas
Jeff Shockley, College of Charleston
Chandan Acharya, CUNY College of Staten IslandFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Research has argued that inter-organizational trust and learning are critical factors associated with successful supply chain innovation and long-term competitiveness. In this paper, we develop and test a proposed model of supply chain organizational design using survey data collected from 128 decision-makers across diverse sample of supply chain decision-makers across many industries. Our analysis provides evidence that both trust and supply chain learning play important, but distinctive roles in developing an entrepreneurial and innovative supply chains. Moreover, our research findings add critical insight into existing resource-based perspectives of supply chain innovation by illuminating the roles and progression of the different resource elements – trust, supply chain learning, entrepreneurial emphasis, innovativeness – in developing and building a competitive supply chain infrastructure.

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