The Formation Mechanism of Business-to-business Relationship Commitment and Its Effects on Alliance Performance in Supply Chain

摘要：

Relationship commitment has increasingly received attention from scholars and practitioners in recent years. However, the knowledge of what influences relationship commitment is still very limited. The formation mechanism of business-to-business relationship commitment in supply chain is examined in this paper. Based on the investigation among Chinese enterprises, Firstly, the results show the factors which influence on the formation of business-to-business relationship commitment, The characteristics of supplier include suppliers capacity, products, person and so on, The relation characteristics between manufacturer and supplier include experience, mutual interdependence, trust and power; Second, relationship commitment can be divided into three dimensions: normative relationship commitment, instrumental relationship commitment and emotional commitment, and the antecedents we discussed above impacts these three dimensions in different ways; Third, relationship commitment have positive efforts on relational stability in supply chain, and then positively affects the alliance performance.

关键词： Alliance performance power relationship commitment trust

作者: JIANG Xiao-rong LI Sui-cheng Shen-jie

作者单位: School of Business and Administration Management,Xian University of Technology,P.R.China,710054

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 6th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management( 2009 第六届服务系统与服务管理国际会议)

会议地点: 厦门

会议语种:英文

页码: 141-146

在线出版日期: 2009-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）