Antecedents of Supply Chain Collaboration

The rest of the book is organized as follows. Chapter 2 reviews the theoretical bases and proposes the research model. Chapter 3 discusses the antecedents of supply chain collaboration. Chapter 4 explores the nature and characteristics of supply chain collaboration. Chapter 5 focuses on the consequences of supply chain collaboration—collaborative advantage and firm performance. Chapter 6 describes structured interview and Q-sort. Chapter 7 presents large-scale analysis and hypotheses testing. Chapter 8 provides a discussion of research and managerial insights. 

The model developed in the study does not purport to represent all the possible antecedents of supply chain collaboration. Future research can expand the current theoretical framework by incorporating new constructs. For example, one might include e-business and IS strategies into the existing framework. 

Chapter 3 ( Antecedents of Supply Chain Collaboration ) dehnes and elaborates key antecedents of supply chain collaboration including IT resources, lOS appropriation, collaborative culture, and trust. 

The objective of the study is to uncover the nature and characteristics, antecedents, and consequences of supply chain collaboration from multiple theoretical perspectives. To achieve this, the current study aims to shed light on the role of lOS use in supply chain collaboration by investigating the following research questions ... 

In explaining the important role of trust in supply chain collaboration, transaction cost economics argues that trust mitigates the probability of a firm s opportunistic behavior, which accounts for the risk in supply chain collaboration. As a complementary explanation, trust based rationalism also identifies trust as the indispensable antecedent to supply chain collaboration. In contrast to the negative assumption of transaction cost economics, tmst based rationalism argues there are some supply chain partners who take the assumption of trustworthiness rather than... 

To the author best knowledge, the study represents one of the first large-scale empirical efforts to provide preliminary insights into the antecedents to, and the consequences of, supply chain collaboration. This study has made contributions to our understanding of lOS enabled supply chain collaboration, one of the most complex and challenging aspects of supply chain management, in a number of ways. 

Fourth, this research has provided a theoretical framework that identifies characteristics, antecedents, and consequences of lOS enabled supply chain collaboration. The conceptual model was built based on the review of a wide range of literature, incorporating appropriate features of interorganizational models from different perspectives (i.e., transaction cost economics, resource-based view, resource dependence theory, social exchange theory, trust-based rationalism, and knowledge perspective). By blending multiple theoretical perspectives, a full-round picture of supply chain collaboration has been painted. The framework has provided a foundation for future research. The framework can be used to study both collaboration formation and ongoing collaboration evaluation and maintenance to further enrich the collaboration theory. 

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