Given the increasing challenges confronting the food supply chain and its vulnerability, researchers are increasingly focusing on developing supply chain resilience. This study examines the impact of blockchain technology, a new formal governance mechanism, and relational governance, a conventional informal governance approach, on the food supply chain's resilience. The role of supply chain traceability as a mediator and environmental dynamism as a moderator is evaluated.
An empirical analysis of survey data from 231 Chinese food enterprises using structural equation models was conducted to test the theoretical hypotheses.
This research suggests that supply chain traceability mediates the impact of relational governance and blockchain technology on supply chain resilience and that the mediating effect of blockchain technology on supply chain resilience is weakened when environmental dynamism is high. Blockchain technology is found to enhance supply chain traceability through relational governance.
These findings provide a deeper understanding of the impact of relational governance and blockchain technology as two different governance mechanisms on supply chain resilience, offering managerial insights into the adoption of effective governance mechanisms by food enterprises to increase supply chain resilience.
