Chain Collaborative Innovation Research Articles

Emerging Economies of Southeast Asia: Achieving and increasing radical innovations through collaborating with buyers and suppliers by fostering trust: the Case of Viet Nam

ABSTRACTRadical innovation in product and services have become more important for firms to gain competitive advantages and stay ahead in the competition. In the supply chain, more and more suppliers endeavour to collaborate with buyers in order to develop new products and services. Trust is believed as a determinant of successful collaboration for innovation. Therefore, the purpose of this research note is to investigate the relationship between suppliers’ trust in buyers and supplier-buyer collaboration and how this relationship relates to radical innovation in the context of a developing country. This research note is based on a quantitative approach to analyse the data of 225 firms in Vietnam- as a developing country. The proposed model is tested with exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM). Findings show that suppliers’ trust in buyers can facilitate information sharing, joint decision making, and benefit/risks sharing among them. Furthermore, our results indicate that collaboration between supplier and buyers in sharing information, joint decision-making process can result in radical innovation. The results also confirmed that supplier’s trust in buyers can lead to radical innovation through information sharing and joint decision making. The findings of this study have an implications for developing the long-term relationship between suppliers and buyers and help firms to achieve radical innovation in emerging economies. By having trust in buyers, suppliers can save time and efforts in communicating with buyers. Also, managers can encourage buyers to take part in the creative process to develop new products and services and help firm to gain the sustainable competitive advantages. This study also contributes to the literature by providing a theoretical model of successful supply chain collaboration and radical innovation, which can be applied in the context of developing countries. This study investigates the role of supplier’s trust in the supplier-buyer collaboration in the context of a developing country to achieve radical innovation. Our study emphasizes the role of trust in the implementation process of collaboration in which suppliers and buyers share information, risk, and benefit and jointly make decisions on developing new products and services.

Effects of organisational learning on service innovation performance: the mediating effect of supply chain collaboration and the moderating role of interpersonal trust

This paper discusses the relationships between organisational learning and service innovation performance, as well as the mediating role of supply chain collaboration and the moderating role of interpersonal trust. The empirical study shows that: 1) different dimensions of organisational learning have different effects on different dimensions of supply chain collaboration and service innovation performance; 2) supply chain collaboration acts as a mediator between knowledge absorption, knowledge integration, and service innovation performance, but it does not have a mediating effect on the relationship between learning intention and service innovation performance; 3) the positive relationship between knowledge integration and service innovation performance is stronger if the interpersonal trust is higher than it is low. But interpersonal trust does not have a moderating effect on the relationship between the other two dimensions of organisational learning (learning intention and knowledge absorption) and service innovation performance. The segmentation study in this paper gives some theoretical values and insights on research of supply chain collaboration, organisational learning and service innovation performance, and enriches the empirical research of these areas to some extent.

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Based Evaluation Method for Supply Chain Collaborative Technological Innovation

The collaboration between the company and its partners is becoming a competitive advantage to achieve long-term business success. Especially from the perspective of the supply chain, corporate profitability depends increasingly on their overall competitiveness in the supply chain rather than a single company. This paper is an attempt to the current issues and development of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation, and fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is employed to assess the performance of the collaborative technological innovation from the supply chain perspective. An empirical study is illustrated to testify the effectiveness of this method. The managerial implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Efficiency of the supply chain collaborative technological innovation in China: An empirical study based on DEA analysis

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.