Understanding the structural characteristics of a firm's whole buyer-supplier network and its impact on international business performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sharma, Amalesh; Kumar, V.; Yan, Jun; Borah, Sourav Bikash; Adhikary, Anirban
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Indian School of Business (ISB); Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-019-00215-x
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 365-392
• 关键词: whole buyer-supplier network; international business performance; AMBIDEXTERITY; Network structure; CURVILINEAR RELATIONSHIP

摘要

Building on the network theory and the concept of organizational ambidexterity, we investigate the impact of structural characteristics of a firm's whole buyer-supplier network: network density, betweenness centralization, and average clustering coefficient on its international business (IB) performance. We also explore the moderating roles of average path length and PageRank centrality. Using a manually-collected dataset and a robust empirical methodology, we find that, while network density is negatively related, betweenness centralization and average clustering coefficient have an inverted U-shape and a U-shaped relationship with IB performance, respectively. We also find significant moderation effects, and, in the process, we show the economic importance of firms' whole buyer-supplier network to their IB performance. We contribute to the international business and whole buyer-supplier network literature.