The Effects of Manufacturing Firms Supply Chain Performance on Competitive Advantage
This study, based on a survey of 1000 manufacturing firms in central south, south and central China regions, examines the relationship among supply chain performance, competitive advantage and firm performance. By exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the scale of manufacturing firms supply chain performance is obtained. The results show that supply chain performance can be conceptualized as a four dimensional construct: supplier performance, customer responsiveness, supply chain flexibility and supply chain cost Furthermore, after testing research hypotheses by LISREL, we find that these four constructs all have significant effects on competitive advantage, and that each of them except supplier performance has significant effects on firm performance. The implications for our findings are also presented for the improvement of manufacturing firms supply chain performance.
manufacturing firm supply chain performance competitive advantage
Li Lin
School of Economics & Finance, Hunan University of Technology,Zhuzhou, 412007, China
国际会议
昆明、丽江
英文
1259-1262
2011-04-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）