...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...

... such as Ghobakhloo et al. (2021) and Beltrami et al. (2021) reveal that the literature is generally over-optimistic regarding the economic and socio-environmental impacts of I4.0. Bohnsack et al. (2022) explain that the introduction of digital technology can have both positive...

... 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...

...Yihua Chen; Ivanka Visnjic; Vinit Parida; Zhengang Zhang Indeed, recent anecdotal evidence also suggests that the process of digital servitization is highly complex (Sjödin et al., 2020 ; Kohtamäki et al., 2019). Reports published by McKinsey & Company suggest...

... supporting the transfer of data using diverse network technologies. The third layer is described as a software layer where multiple sources of data are stored, combined and transformed. Thanks to cloud-computing servers, analytics, artificial intelligence or digital twin, data are transformed into value...