How Do Power Type and Partnership Quality Affect Supply Chain Management Performance?

Kwang O. Park, Hwalsik Chang and Dae Hyun Jung
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Kwang O. Park: Division of Business, Yeungnam University College, Daegu 42415, Korea
Hwalsik Chang: School of Business, Pusan National University, Pusan 46241, Korea
Dae Hyun Jung: School of Business, Pusan National University, Pusan 46241, Korea

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: A supply chain management (SCM) system is a strategic cooperative that organically integrates all supply chains to improve the performance of a company. The greatest critical success factor of SCM is partnership. Without cooperation between companies, SCM performance is limited. Does this imply, therefore, that companies within the supply chain can achieve mutual transactions equally? If the power between companies is unequal, how does this affect their partnership? The focus of this study is to assess whether power types enhance SCM performance through partnerships. We categorize power types as mediated and non-mediated. Mediated power is categorized based on coercion, reward, and legitimate, while non-mediated power is categorized based on information, expert, and reference. Therefore, this study examines how power types form a causal partnership relationship within the supply chain, and performs an empirical investigation on how the partnerships influence SCM performance.

Keywords: SCM; SCM performance; mediated power; non-mediated power; partnership quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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