Understanding the Present by Examining the Past: Imprinting Effects On Supply Chain Outsourcing in a Transition Economy

Abstract

Institutional transitions within emerging markets create significant challenges for effective supply chain management. This research investigates external pressures, internal strategic choices, and institutional imprinting influences on supply chain outsourcing and operational performance. Results of primary and secondary data from a sample of 769 firms in Russia demonstrate that industry competitor growth and decentralized outsourcing decision making encourage firms to outsource more supply chain activities. Interestingly, however, these influences are directly and indirectly thwarted within firms that have a strong imprint from the former Soviet centrally planned economy. Further, the positive impact on operational performance resulting from decentralized decision making and outsourcing becomes negative when firms have a strong Soviet imprint. This research underscores the significance of founding institutional imprints of emerging economies when considering supply chain decentralization and outsourcing decisions.

A Primer on Moderated Mediation Analysis: Exploring Logistics Involvement in New Product Development

“…, ; Davis‐Sramek et al. ), we hope our presentation will spur their greater application. Another direction for future research concerns developing strategies for model selection in moderated mediation models given scholars’ differing goals could result in the selection of alternative mathematical structures.…”

“…18 Given moderated mediation analyses have made limited inroads into L&SCM research to date (cf. Peinkofer et al 2015Peinkofer et al , 2016Davis-Sramek et al 2017), we hope our presentation will spur their greater application. Another direction for future research concerns developing strategies for model selection in moderated mediation models given scholars' differing goals could result in the selection of alternative mathematical structures.…”

“…We will describe these indices and their calculation when conducting our analyses. At the time of writing this article, integrated moderated mediation analyses are relatively rare in the L&SCM literature, with Peinkofer et al (2015Peinkofer et al ( , 2016 and Davis-Sramek et al (2017) representing recent examples.…”

Acting as Expected: Global Leadership Preferences and the Pursuit of an Integrated Supply Chain

“…This is because we are assessing the impact that country‐level leadership preferences have on the extent of internal and external SCI programs existing within firms in that country. Key informants within firms are best equipped to inform about such within firm programs (Davis‐Sramek et al, ). Previous research investigating supply chain variables across countries have used single key informants (Chae, Choi, & Hur, ).…”

Following the Old Road: Organizational Imprinting and Regional Development of Russia

“…Recent work in this domain has underlined political ideology (Wang, Du & Marquis 2018), especially in countries with socialist legacy, as a producer of powerful imprints, which direct strategic management and decision-making processes (Kriauciunas & Shinkle 2008;Marquis & Qiao 2018). At firmlevel, socialist imprints have been shown to adversely impact the ability of firms to adapt to new business environments (Kogut & Zander 2000), engage in decentralized decision-making and outsourcing (Davis-Sramek et al 2017) or change their sets of operating knowledge (Kriaucinas & Kale 2006). At individual level, the length of exposure to communist ideology has been found to affect work behaviors of professionals (Banalieva et al 2017).…”