The impacts of intra-organizational structural elements on supply chain integration

• Published in: Industrial management + data systems Vol. 119; no. 5; pp. 1031 - 1045
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yanming, Zhao, Xiande, Huo, Baofeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wembley Emerald Publishing Limited 10-06-2019; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Cooperation; Corporate culture; Design specifications; Employees; Human nature; Inventory; Inventory management; Model testing; Organizational aspects; Structural members; Studies; Supervisors; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Teamwork; Turnover; Human goodness; Structural elements; Organizational commitment; Supply chain integration; Teamwork culture
• ISSN: 0263-5577; 1758-5783
• DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-08-2018-0353

Purpose
Following resource-based view, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of three intra-organizational structural elements on supply chain integration (SCI).
Design/methodology/approach
Based on data collected from ten countries, this study employs the structural equation modeling method to test the proposed model.
Findings
The results demonstrate that teamwork culture is positively related to three dimensions of SCI. Organizational commitment has positive effects on internal and customer integration (CI), whereas it has no significant effect on supplier integration (SI). Human goodness is only positively related to internal integration, but has no significant effect on SI or CI.
Originality/value
This study contributes to both structural elements literature and SCI enabler literature by operationalizing three human-related components of structural elements and empirically investigating relationships between intra-organizational structural elements and SCI.