Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2010
Abstract
Firms in the Asia Pacific region are rapidly globalizing their sourcing processes and effective collaboration with suppliers across borders is necessary for superior sourcing performance. Recent work in Resource Based View calls for business process level research into the resource-performance link and for survey research into global sourcing. We report on a survey research study with managers in the region, and develop measures that link practices to the goals of De-Constraining, Re-Branding and Re-Optimizing. We develop a model and test hypotheses based on predictions of RBV. We find that a latent sourcing resource Reform Competency is positively associated with these goals and a sourcing performance measure, Effective Collaboration. We discuss the contributions and highlight the managerial implications of our results for managers in relating specific goal structures to superior sourcing practice.
Keywords
Sourcing Practices, Resource Based View, Asia Pacific Region, Structural Equations Models.
Discipline
Marketing | Strategic Management Policy
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
First Page
1
Last Page
33
Citation
SESHADRI, Sudhi.
Sourcing Reform Competency and Effective Collaboration: A Resource Based View. (2010). 1-33.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1866
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Author
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
The author gratefully acknowledges partial support for this research from the NOL Fellowship under grant C216/MX09B001 and from Office of Research at SMU under grant 08-C207-SMU-012