Abstract
Purpose: This paper is an attempt to investigate the current issues and development of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation in China. Design/methodology/approach: DEA is employed to measure the efficiency of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation. Findings: From the results of this research, we can get the conclusion that there are big spaces for improvement for the selected companies in terms of supply chain collaborative technological innovation, especially in the collaborative benefit aspect. The efficiencies of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation in the selected companies vary a lot. Research limitations: More industries are needed to generalize the conclusions. Practical implications: Our practical recommendations for improving supply chain companies in terms of improving their collaborative technological innovation efficiency are: (1) expanding the cooperative scope; (2) optimizing the collaboration operations; (3) improving the compactness in supply chain; (4) increasing the innovation input; and (5) improving the knowledge exchange capacity. Originality/value: The evaluation and the measure of the efficiency of performance of the collaborative technological innovation both in theory and in practice have been proven to be very important and quite complex, and there have been limited researches in the current literature. From observations, however, the efficiency of supply chain collaborative technological innovation is relatively low. This research investigate s the current issues and development of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation in China, and provides the guideline in terms of improving the efficiency of supply chain collaborative technological innovation.
Highlights
As the global competition and the world economic integration, enterprises pay more attention to obtain advantages from innovation instead of the aspects of price or cost, and market has shifted from competition between enterprises to the competition between supply chains
The method through technological innovation to improve the overall performance of the collaborative supply chain gain researchers' attention
In order to make the most use of collaboration on technological innovation in supply chain, reasonable evaluation model is needed, which is the premise and bases for the correct evaluation of collaboration capabilities and performance of technological innovation in the supply chain
Summary
As the global competition and the world economic integration, enterprises pay more attention to obtain advantages from innovation instead of the aspects of price or cost, and market has shifted from competition between enterprises to the competition between supply chains. The increasing complexities of competitive environment put forward higher requirements for supply chain members. Previous research supports the value of such practices, including supplier selection (Wong, Boon-itt & Wong, 2011; Carey, Lawson & Krause, 2011; Lawson, Tyler & Cousions, 2008; Zhou, Zhang, Sheng, Xie & Bao, 2014) Considering the limitations of available resources, increasing personalized customer demands and shortening of product life cycle, it is difficult for companies alone to produce the product meeting the demands of market and customers. There is no company having R&D ability of all fields, so in the time of product life cycle getting shorter and competition getting more intense, collaborative innovation becomes the inevitable choice (Yang, 2007b)
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