Enhance or impair: how does downstream complexity influence supply chain resilience with reconciling effects of intelligent manufacturing?
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
ISSN: 1741-038X
Article publication date: 22 August 2023
Issue publication date: 16 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the nuanced effects of downstream complexity on supply chain resilience, based on portfolio theory and normal accident theory. Intelligent manufacturing is considered to clarify their boundary conditions.
Design/methodology/approach
The ordinary least squares regression was conducted, based on the data collected from 136 high-tech firms in China.
Findings
Horizontal downstream complexity has a positive effect on supply chain resilience significantly, while the negative impact of vertical downstream complexity on supply chain resilience is not significant. Contingently, intelligent manufacturing plays a negative moderating role in the relationship between horizontal downstream complexity and supply chain resilience, while it positively moderates the relationship between vertical downstream complexity and supply chain resilience.
Originality/value
This study disentangles the nuanced effects of both horizontal and vertical downstream complexity on supply chain resilience, based on portfolio theory and normal accident theory. It also clarifies their boundary conditions by considering the focal firm's intelligent manufacturing level as the contingent factor.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions.
Funding: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 71302128, Beijing Social Science under Grant No. 22GLC044, National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences under Grant No. 19BGL096, the Research Foundation for Youth Scholars of Beijing Technology and Business University, Yunnan Deng Ronglin Education Foundation, the 2021 Undergraduate Teaching Reform Innovation Project of Higher Education in Beijing; the 2022 Education and Teaching Reform Project of Central University of Finance and Economics under Grant No. 2022ZXJG16, the Program for Innovation Research in Central University of Finance and Economics, and Innovation Centre for Digital Business and Capital Development of Beijing Technology and Business University under Grant No. Grant Number SZSK202316.
Citation
Chen, J., Liu, G. and Wang, Y. (2023), "Enhance or impair: how does downstream complexity influence supply chain resilience with reconciling effects of intelligent manufacturing?", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 34 No. 8, pp. 1356-1376. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-02-2023-0071
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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