Supply Chain Alliance Stability And Its Empirical Research On Alliance Performance

Supply chain alliances, as an innovation of organizational relationship, has been playing a vital role in modern corporations to strengthen competitive advantages. But in practice , the phenomenon of instability of supply chain alliances is widespread. So it is obviously of great significance to do researchs on the influence factor of relational stability and the effect of relational stability on alliance performance.it is an essential problem for corporations to solve by using the new competitive of supply chain alliances, raising the rate of success, enhancing alliance performance.This research analyses the factors affecting relational stability of supply chain alliances, based on the social theory .we believe that the relational capital, relational commitment, trust of supplier and cultural compatibility have something to do with alliance performance. Then this research construct a concept model about the effect of relational capital, relational commitment, trust of supplier, cultural compatibility on relational stability and that of relational stability on alliance performance.Through empirical research we prove that relational capital and trust of supplier have a positive effect on relational stability while relational commitment as well as cultural compatibility has a negative effect on relational stability and relational stability has a positive effect on alliance performance. Especially, it is found that the more relational commitment the less relational stability and there are non-existent direct relationships between cultural compatibility and relational stability.According to the research, firms can find out the negative factors affecting inter-organizational stability and through building relational capital, efficient mechanism of solving conflicts, high trust and reducing opportunism, can they increase alliance's stability, enhance alliance performance and strengthen competence of supply chain alliances.