Abstract
Article history: Received October 28, 2013 Received in revised format 25 November 2013 Accepted 26 January 2014 Available online January 28 2014 This paper presents a survey on relationship between supply chain management and innovation in an Iranian holding firm in auto industry named Iran Khodro. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and using random sampling technique, distributes 250 questionnaires among some managers of this holding firm. The study consists of three parts including supply chain management, innovation and organizational performance. The study uses regression technique as well as structural equation modeling and it has detected that there were some strong and positive relationship between supply chain management and innovation. In addition, the result of the survey indicates that there was some positive and meaningful relationship between supply chain management and organizational performance.
Highlights
During the past few years, there have been tremendous changes on business models around the world
This paper presents a survey on relationship between supply chain management and innovation in an Iranian holding firm in auto industry named Iran Khodro
Based on exploratory factor analysis (EFA), supply chain management (SCM) practices were grouped in two factors including outsourcing and multi-suppliers (OMS), and strategic collaboration and lean practices (SCLP)
Summary
During the past few years, there have been tremendous changes on business models around the world. We see many firms with small capital and labor to create substantial value added (Bayraktar et al, 2007). These days, many high tech firms as well as knowledge-based firms have changed traditional economic definitions (Chen & Tsou, 2006; Hervani et al, 2005). Chong et al (2011) examined a framework, which determines the relationships between supply chain management (SCM) practices, operational performance and innovation performance of Malaysian manufacturing and service firms. Innovation improvement caused by SCM yields in better organizational performance Their findings disclosed that manufacturing and service firms in Malaysia did not have a substantial difference in their SCM practices. Based on exploratory factor analysis (EFA), SCM practices were grouped in two factors including outsourcing and multi-suppliers (OMS), and strategic collaboration and lean practices (SCLP). Quayle (2003) performed similar investigation of SCM practice in UK industrial SMEs
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