Understanding the structural characteristics of a firm's whole buyer--supplier network and its impact on international business performance
Sharma, A and Kumar, V and Yan, J and Borah, S B and Adhikary, A (2019) Understanding the structural characteristics of a firm's whole buyer--supplier network and its impact on international business performance. Journal of International Business Studies.
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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.
Affiliation: | Indian School of Business |
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ISB Creators ORCiD Kumar, V UNSPECIFIED |
Item Type: | Article |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | whole buyer–supplier network, international business performance, ambidexterity, network structure, curvilinear relationship |
Subjects: | Marketing |
Depositing User: | Veeramani R |
Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2019 12:56 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2019 12:56 |
URI: | http://eprints.exchange.isb.edu/id/eprint/690 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00215-x |
Publisher OA policy: | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0047-2506/ |
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