Power, shared goals and supplier flexibility: a study of the HUB-and-spoke supply chain

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Liu, Gordon, Aroean, Lukman and Ko, Wai Wai (2022) Power, shared goals and supplier flexibility: a study of the HUB-and-spoke supply chain. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 42 (2). pp. 182-205. ISSN 0144-3577

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Abstract

Purpose: Supplier flexibility reflects a supplier's operations-related decisions in responsively providing the necessary inputs to the focal firm. Drawing on resource-dependency theory and transaction cost economics, this study develops a conceptual framework to explain the differential effects of a focal firm's power over supplier flexibility in the context of the hub-and-spoke supply chain (SC). This study also considers the goals shared between the focal firm and its suppliers as an important contingency factor within the framework. Design/methodology/approach: This study tests the proposed conceptual framework using dyadic survey data from a hub-and-spoke SC consisting of a large construction contractor and its 100 suppliers in Indonesia. Findings: The findings show that coercive power has an inverted U-shaped effect on supplier flexibility, while legal-legitimate power has a U-shaped effect. Furthermore, shared goals positively moderate the U-shaped effect between legal-legitimate power and supplier flexibility. Originality/value: This study differentiates between the impacts of coercive power and legal-legitimate power on supplier flexibility in the hub-and-spoke SC. It also demonstrates that shared goals play a moderating role in affecting the impacts of legal-legitimate power on supplier flexibility. These findings also have important implications with regard to integrating resource-dependency theory and transaction cost economics to explain these associations.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hub-and-spoke supply chain,influence strategies,power,shared goals,supplier flexibility,decision sciences(all),strategy and management,management of technology and innovation ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1800
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Marketing
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2022 09:30
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2024 21:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84203
DOI:	10.1108/IJOPM-08-2021-0538

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