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Table 1

SCF drivers

Group of drivers	Driver	Description	Reference
Supplier continuity	Bankruptcy risk of suppliers	Manage and reduce suppliers’ risks, to avoid their bankruptcy	Hofmann and Belin (2011); Gelsomino et al. (2016)
Supplier continuity	Need to assure quality	Financially help suppliers to guarantee supply quality and continuity	Caniato et al. (2016)
Long cash-to-cash cycle	Payment terms	High days sales outstanding (DSO) and/or low days payables outstanding (DPO)	Hofmann and Belin (2011); Caniato et al. (2016)
Long cash-to-cash cycle	Level of stock	High days inventory holding (DIH)	Van Bergen et al. (2019)
Level of liquidity	Lack of liquidity	Need for liquidity faced by firms	Hofmann and Belin (2011)
	Lack of access to financial services	Lack of adequate access to financial services at reasonable rates	Miller and Jones (2010)
	Exploit the excess of liquidity	Need to exploit and remunerate liquidity excess of a cash-rich firm	Gelsomino et al. (2016)
Features of the product	Long production cycle	Long lead time between the start of the production and the sales to the final customer	Tsolakis et al. (2014); Van Bergen (2019)
	Lack of collateral	Lack of traditional assets to be used as collateral to obtain loans	Ruete (2015); Abbasi et al. (2018); Hanedar et al. (2014)
	Short maturity period	Situation in which a loan is granted for a shorter period than the requested time	Abbasi et al. (2018); Ardic et al. (2011)
SC Sustainability	Social and economic sustainability	Increasing the sustainability of the supply chain according to an economic and social viewpoint	Zhuo et al. (2018); Zhan et al. (2018), Jia et al. (2020); Tseng et al. (2021)

Group of drivers	Driver	Description	Reference
Supplier continuity	Bankruptcy risk of suppliers	Manage and reduce suppliers’ risks, to avoid their bankruptcy	Hofmann and Belin (2011); Gelsomino et al. (2016)
Supplier continuity	Need to assure quality	Financially help suppliers to guarantee supply quality and continuity	Caniato et al. (2016)
Long cash-to-cash cycle	Payment terms	High days sales outstanding (DSO) and/or low days payables outstanding (DPO)	Hofmann and Belin (2011); Caniato et al. (2016)
Long cash-to-cash cycle	Level of stock	High days inventory holding (DIH)	Van Bergen et al. (2019)
Level of liquidity	Lack of liquidity	Need for liquidity faced by firms	Hofmann and Belin (2011)
	Lack of access to financial services	Lack of adequate access to financial services at reasonable rates	Miller and Jones (2010)
	Exploit the excess of liquidity	Need to exploit and remunerate liquidity excess of a cash-rich firm	Gelsomino et al. (2016)
Features of the product	Long production cycle	Long lead time between the start of the production and the sales to the final customer	Tsolakis et al. (2014); Van Bergen (2019)
	Lack of collateral	Lack of traditional assets to be used as collateral to obtain loans	Ruete (2015); Abbasi et al. (2018); Hanedar et al. (2014)
	Short maturity period	Situation in which a loan is granted for a shorter period than the requested time	Abbasi et al. (2018); Ardic et al. (2011)
SC Sustainability	Social and economic sustainability	Increasing the sustainability of the supply chain according to an economic and social viewpoint	Zhuo et al. (2018); Zhan et al. (2018), Jia et al. (2020); Tseng et al. (2021)

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