The performance implications of strategic fit of relational norm governance strategies in global supply chain relationships

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Griffith, DA; Myers, MB
• 署名单位: Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400131
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 254-269
• 关键词: Global supply chain; governance; relational norms

摘要

The search for strategic fit has become a core concept in normative models of strategy formation. The issue of strategic fit is becoming increasingly important in global supply chain relationships as managers and academics examine the effectiveness of culturally founded relational governance strategies across multiple supply chain relationships. This study empirically examines the performance implications of strategic fit of relational norm governance strategies in global supply chain relationships between US firms and their primary Japanese and US partners. The performance implications of fitting relational norm governance strategies (i.e., information exchange, flexibility and solidarity) across culturally diverse partners are tested. Results indicate that firm performance is enhanced when the relational norms of information exchange and solidarity are fit to culturally founded norm expectations across culturally diverse relationships simultaneously. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.