...Yiran Chen; Bo Li; Baofeng Huo Purpose Driven by digital technologies, enterprise competition has shifted from individual efficiency to the entire supply chain. Grounded in the relational view of competitive advantage, this study analyzes how buyer digitalization affects supplier operational...

... of supplier digitalization affects customer RAE through supply chain entrainment. Design/methodology/approach Based on supplier and customer data disclosed by Chinese A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study uses fixed effects panel data models to empirically examine the impact of supplier...

... transparency in terms of ESG (SCT-ESG). To further clarify the signaling process, the moderating roles of digitalization of the firm and signal strength are also examined. Design/methodology/approach Longitudinal secondary data from multiple databases are matched and analyzed using ordinary least squares...

...Leven J. Zheng; Nazrul Islam; Justin Zuopeng Zhang; Huan Wang; Kai Ming Alan Au Purpose This study seeks to explore the intricate relationship among supply chain transparency, digitalization and idiosyncratic risk, with a specific focus on newly public firms. The objective is to determine whether...

... the effects of firm-level relational embeddedness on network-level transparency still lags. Drawing on social network analysis, this research examines the effect of relational embeddedness on supply chain transparency and the contingent role of digitalization in the context of environmental, social...

...Daryl John Powell; Désirée A. Laubengaier; Guilherme Luz Tortorella; Henrik Saabye; Jiju Antony; Raffaella Cagliano Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the digitalization of operational processes and activities in lean manufacturing firms and explore the associated learning...

... Industry 4.0 Digitalization Smart manufacturing Sustainability Problematization In the existing literature on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and sustainability, the prevailing assumption is that digitalization is the key to more efficient and sustainable manufacturing companies (see Beltrami et al...

... uncertain and turbulent environments nowadays intensify the paradoxical effects of supply base concentration (SBC) on improving cost efficiency while increasing idiosyncratic risk (IR). Digitalization is regarded as a remedy for this paradox, yet digitization's potentially curative effect has not been...

... that Haier’s servitization journey includes three stages (i.e. product-oriented solution, integrated solution and smart connected solutions) that evolve in the target of the services and the digital components of the solutions. Haier has also developed three types of platforms (i.e. service platform, supply...

...Jakob Keller; Patricia Burkhardt; Rainer Lasch Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore if and how informal governance mechanisms are used for coordinating actors of digitalized supply networks. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study analysis of ten German firms...

...Lu Yang; Baofeng Huo; Min Tian; Zhaojun Han Purpose Digitalization encourages the manufacturer to engage in inter-organizational technological activities (i.e. supplier IT integration and supply visibility) with its major supplier, which influences supply chain (SC) governance. This study tests...

... to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode The authors seek to understand the process of digital servitization as a shift of manufacturing companies from the provision of standard...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Internet of things Technologies Connectivity Digitalization Embedded systems The internet of things (IoT) refers to the networked interconnection of physical assets via embedded systems, which leads to a highly distributed network...