Supply chain agility, adaptability and alignment

Abstract

Purpose -To examine when and how organizations create agility, adaptability, and alignment as distinct supply chain properties to gain sustainable competitive advantage.Design/methodology/approach -The current study utilizes the resource-based view (RBV) under the moderating effect of top management commitment. To test our research hypotheses, we gathered 351 usable responses using a pre-tested questionnaire.Findings -Our statistical analyses suggest that information sharing and supply chain connectivity resources influence supply chain visibility capability, which, under the moderating effect of top management commitment, enhance supply chain agility, adaptability and alignment.Originality/value -Our contribution lies in: (i) providing a holistic study of the antecedents of agility, adaptability and alignment; (ii) investigating the moderating role of top management commitment on supply chain agility, adaptability and alignment; (iii) following the RBV and addressing calls for investigating the role of resources in supply chain management, and for empirical studies with implications for supply chain design.

Big data analytics capability in supply chain agility

“…Our results provide a better understanding of the impact of big data analytics capability on supply chain agility and competitive advantage, answering the calls for research (Brusset, 2016;Gunasekaran et al 2017;Dubey et al 2018a). Our results contributes to building and refining theories of big data analytics capability, supply chain agility, organizational flexibility and competitive advantage and provides empirically grounded normative suggestions to management practitioners.…”

“…Eckstein et al (2015) viewsupply chain agility as a dynamic capability that not only helps to meet customers' demand but also helps to enhance the firm's profitability. Dubey et al (2018a) further noted that supply chain visibility enhances supply chain agility via bundling organizational resources (i.e. data connectivity and information sharing).…”

“…Supply chain visibility is a desired organizational capability to mitigate risk resulting from supply chain disruptions (Jüttner and Maklan, 2011). Following Srinivasan and Swink's (2017) arguments that organizations investing in building supply chain visibility capability are likely to invest in big data analytics capability, Dubey et al (2018a) found a positive impact of supply chain visibility on supply chain agility. Hence, we may argue that the use of data technology may help managers to sense the rapid changes in environments, so they can develop business continuity plans that may help to quickly respond to the changes.…”

“…Hence, in an effort to adapt the services and goods on offer to meet the customers' changing tastes and behaviours, supply chain managers are under pressure to build agility in their supply chains to match the intense competition in markets (Gligor et al 2016). However, an independent stream of research in recent years has led to the conceptualization of supply chain agility as a distinct and different construct from flexibility (Christopher, 2000;Holcomb, 2012a, 2012b;Blome et al 2013;Brusset, 2016;Dubey et al 2018a). The literature focusing on supply chain agility and its impact on organizational performance is limited (Gligor et al 2015) and has focused on the management practices needed to achieve the operational capabilities to enhance supply chain agility from different managerial viewpoints, such as operations, strategy, information systems, marketing, human resources (Brusset, 2016).…”

Analysis of the rebound effects of fossil and nonfossil energy in China based on sustainable development

“…As one of the largest energy consumers and carbon emitters in the world, China has promised to reduce emissions and conserve its energy consumption (Dong, Long, Li, & Dai, ; Dubey et al, ; Dubey, Gunasekaran, et al, ; Liu et al, ; Yao, Zhou, Zhang, & Li, ). Among many driving factors, researchers have extensively studied the influence of technological progress on energy consumption and consider it to play an important role in energy conservation (Chen, Xu, Song, & Liu, ; Dubey, Altay, et al, ; Gerlagh & van der Zwaan, ; Li, Hu, & Zhang, ; Luo, Dubey, Papadopoulos, Hazen, & Roubaud, ; Streimikiene, ; Zhang et al, ). However, technological progress can also reduce the real cost of energy consumption and stimulate economic growth and thus increase the demand for energy (Chang, Yeh, & Chen, ).…”