Supply chain transparency as a key prerequisite for sustainable agri-food supply chain management

Autor:	Joachim Zentes, Jonas Bastian
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Marketing Supply chain risk management Economics and Econometrics Supply chain management Transparency (market) Corporate governance Supply chain Disintermediation Sample (statistics) Agrarian society Operations management Business Business and International Management Industrial organization
Zdroj:	The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. 23:553-570
ISSN:	1466-4402 0959-3969
Popis:	This paper discusses the antecedences and consequences of supply chain transparency (SCT) in sustainable agrarian supply chain management using partial least squares regression in an empirical sample with 131 supply chains with lead firms in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). We investigated the effect of such structural antecedences as disintermediation, as well as the effect of governance tools similar to intensive communication, the integration of third parties in supply chain governance or the use of formal specifications on SCT. We found that all these antecedences are helpful in increasing SCT, while low developed countries of origin significantly reduced SCT. Then, the effects of SCT on the four main performance dimensions in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), i.e. social, ecological, and operational performance and long-term relationship success, were verified. Higher SCT improves all four dimensions significantly, while the effect on operational performance is ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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