Supply management capabilities, routine bundles and their impact on firm performance
Day, Marc and Lichtenstein, Scott and Samouel, Phillip (2015) Supply management capabilities, routine bundles and their impact on firm performance. International Journal of Production Economics, 164. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0925-5273
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Abstract
Despite the generally positive contribution of supply management capabilities to firm performance their respective routines require more depth of assessment. Using the resource-based view we examine four routines bundles comprising ostensive and performative aspects of supply management capability – supply management integration, coordinated sourcing, collaboration management and performance assessment. Using structural equation modelling we measure supply management capability empirically as a second-order latent variable and estimate its effect on a series of financial and operational performance measures. The routines-based approach allows us to demonstrate a different, more fine-grained approach for assessing consistent bundles of homogeneous patterns of activity across firms. The results suggest supply management capability is formed of internally consistent routine bundles, which are significantly related to financial performance, mediated by operational performance. Our results confirm an indirect effect of firm performance for ‘core’ routines forming the architecture of a supply management capability. Supply management capability primarily improves the operational performance of the business, which is subsequently translated into improved financial performance. The study is significant for practice as it offers a different view about the face-valid rationale of supply management directly influencing firm financial performance. We confound this assumption, prompting caution when placing too much importance on directly assessing supply management capability using financial performance of the business.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.02.023 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-02 - business studies | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > Birmingham City Business School | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Scott Lichtenstein | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2019 14:00 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2023 11:49 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7357 |
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