Survey study reveals that visibility mediates information resources to bolster resilience in manufacturing plants, indicating scale complexity moderates disruption mitigation.
Key Points
To examine how connectivity and information sharing resources foster supply chain visibility to enhance resilience and robustness, and how supply base complexity moderates these relationships.
Survey-based empirical analysis using a contingent resource-based view framework.
Data collected from 264 UK manufacturing plants.
Evaluated four distinct dimensions of supply base complexity: scale, geographic dispersion, differentiation, and delivery complexity.
Supply chain connectivity and information sharing significantly foster visibility, which directly strengthens both supply chain resilience and robustness.
Supply base scale exhibits a strong negative moderating effect on capability-performance relationships, whereas geographic dispersion, differentiation, and delivery complexity show no significant contingent effects.
Cite This Study
Brandon‐Jones et al. (2014) studied this question.