TY - JOUR
T1 - Micro-Foundations of Supply Chain Integration
T2 - An Activity-Based Analysis
AU - Ahmed, Muhammad Usman
AU - Pagell, Mark
AU - Kristal, Mehmet Murat
AU - Gattiker, Thomas F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - A large body of literature has studied supply chain integration (SCI) at the macro (firm or dyad) level. However, the micro-foundations of SCI that highlight the range of different activities and choices firms have in implementing integration have not been studied. This paper identifies and analyzes integrative activities or practices that form the micro-units of firm-level SCI. Qualitative analysis yields nine elements of integration that emerge from the large number of integrative practices. In doing so, the paper maps out the structure of the broad SCI construct and discusses the theoretical repercussions of this new approach. New theoretical insights and research directions are identified based on this new micro-level activity-based view of SCI. This paper shifts the focus from where integration is done (customer vs. supplier integration) to what integration entails. SCI has become a very broad construct over time. This paper is a significant and systematic step in unraveling the structure of this broad conceptual domain. It improves nascent ideas about the multiple dimensions of integration by identifying elements based on a comprehensive list of different integrative activities that firms undertake.
AB - A large body of literature has studied supply chain integration (SCI) at the macro (firm or dyad) level. However, the micro-foundations of SCI that highlight the range of different activities and choices firms have in implementing integration have not been studied. This paper identifies and analyzes integrative activities or practices that form the micro-units of firm-level SCI. Qualitative analysis yields nine elements of integration that emerge from the large number of integrative practices. In doing so, the paper maps out the structure of the broad SCI construct and discusses the theoretical repercussions of this new approach. New theoretical insights and research directions are identified based on this new micro-level activity-based view of SCI. This paper shifts the focus from where integration is done (customer vs. supplier integration) to what integration entails. SCI has become a very broad construct over time. This paper is a significant and systematic step in unraveling the structure of this broad conceptual domain. It improves nascent ideas about the multiple dimensions of integration by identifying elements based on a comprehensive list of different integrative activities that firms undertake.
KW - supply chain integration
KW - supply chain relationship management
KW - theory development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149702639&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/logistics3020012
DO - 10.3390/logistics3020012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149702639
VL - 3
JO - Logistics
JF - Logistics
IS - 2
M1 - 12
ER -