For a deeper understanding of the relationships between "Firm Size" and supply chain digitalization: An empirical investigation

Pour une meilleure compréhension des relations entre la "taille de l'entreprise" et la digitalisation de la chaîne d'approvisionnement: Une enquête empirique

Salomée Ruel, Laurence Viale () and Dorsaf Zouari ()
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Laurence Viale: EM Strasbourg - École de Management de Strasbourg = EM Strasbourg Business School
Dorsaf Zouari: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: In a context of unprecedented crises and uncertainties, digital tools appear to bring more visibility to decision-takers along the Supply Chain (SC). They enhance information sharing and collaboration between SC entities. This research contributes to providing a more complete understanding of the relationships between the size of the firm and its adoption of SC digital tools and challenges encountered. For this purpose, we mobilize the Resource-Based View (RBV) and analyze 311 surveys collected from SC professionals using the Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests. Our results clarify the role of firm size in SC digitalization. More precisely, groups of different firm sizes show a significant difference of SC digital tools adoption level and our study enables researchers and practitioners to understand that this difference depends on the type of tools (either operational or support tools). In addition, this study brings a counter-intuitive result that is not consistent with previous research: there is no difference between the groups of different firm sizes with regards to SC digitalization challenges encountered.

Keywords: Digitalization; Supply Chain; Challenges; Digital Tools; Firm Size; Resource-Based View (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in . International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 2022, ⟨10.1504/ijism.2023.10048954⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/ijism.2023.10048954

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