Research On Supply Chain Risk Management:From The Perspective Of Firm Capability And Interorganizational Governance

In an increasingly unstable global economy,supply chain disruptions as unplanned and unanticipated events expose firms within complex networks to operational and financial risks.Supply chain risk management has become an important way for firms to maintain operational stability and improve performance level when dealing with adverse events,solving potential problems,and adapting to the changing environment.The firms have realized the importance of leveraging firm capabilities and interorganizational governance.Specifically,bridging and buffering are inter-organizational response strategies to deal with supply chain disruptions.Supply chain resilience and robustness are intra-organizational supply chain risk management practices.The current literature has focused on the impact of inter-organizational disruption orientation,past experience,inter-organizational trust and dependence on supply chain disruption responses and risk practices.However,in the context of supply chain disruptions,the existing research has not considered a firm's inter-organizational and intra-organizational capabilities simultaneously,and the role of inter-organizational governance.As a supply chain disruption is an inter-organizational phenomenon that can produce uncertainty and ambiguity,relying only on static capabilities and internal resources is not sufficient to deal with complex and changeable supply chain risks.Based on above,this study focuses on the effects of a firm's IT dynamic capabilities,supply chain integration capabilities,and inter-organizational governance on supply chain risk management.In addition,from the perspective of micro-level interorganizational relationship,this research explores the moderating effect of firm dependence advantage and supplier dependence advantage based on resource dependence theory.From the perspective of macro-level institutional environment,this research explores the moderating effect of cultural distance between the firm and its supplier based on the institutionally contingent view of transactional cost economics.The research puts forwards the following three studies.Study 1 focuses on how firms leverage IT capabilities to influence supply chain disruption responses.First,based on the resource dependence theory,Study 1 aims to examine how IT integration and IT reconfiguration influence bridging and buffering responses after supply chain disruptions.Second,the relative dependence advantage of the firm and its supplier may influence the choice of different responses.Study 1 examines the moderating roles of firm's dependence advantage and supplier's dependence advantage on the relationships between different IT capability and supply chain disruption responses.Study 2 focuses on how firms leverage supply chain integration capabilities to improve supply chain resilience and maintain supply chain robustness to improve performance in the context of supply chain disruption.First,Study 2 considers the differences of supply chain resilience and supply chain robustness in terms of characteristics,mechanisms,and influences.Based on the relational view,this paper examines how supplier integration and customer integration influence supply chain resilience and supply chain robustness.In addition,based on the organizational information processing theory,this paper further examines how IT agility moderates the relationship between supply chain risk management practices and supply chain performance.Study 3 focuses on the effects of balance and imbalance between contractual and relational governance on bridging response.Drawing upon inter-organizational governance literature based on transaction cost economics theory,Study 3 considers contractual governance and relational governance can effectively safeguard exchanges and reduce opportunism to improve firm-supplier collaboration after supply chain disruptions.Therefore,balance and imbalance of these two governances will have different effects on bridging.By adopting the institutionally contingent view of transaction cost economics,Study 3 further examines the moderating effect of cultural distance on the relationship between governance balance/imbalance and bridging by considering the difference in cultural tightness of the firm and its supplier.This research has made the following theoretical contributions in the field of supply chain risk management and information system:(1)Based on the resource dependence theory,this study examines the effect of IT capabilities(IT integration and IT reconfiguration)on supply chain disruption response strategies(bridging and buffering),as well as the moderating effects of firm's dependence advantage and supplier's dependence advantage;(2)this study examines how supply chain integration(supplier integration and customer integration)influences supply chain risk management practices(supply chain resilience and supply chain robustness),and how IT agility moderates the relationship between supply chain risk management practices and supply chain performance;(3)Based on the transaction cost economics theory and the institutional view,this study examines the effects of balance and imbalance of contractual governance and relational governance on bridging after supply chain disruptions,as well as the moderating effect of cultural distance between the firm and its supplier.