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Collaboration Arrangements, Internet Technologies and Physical Distribution Service Quality
(Universal Journal of Management and Social Sciences, 2012) Friday, Derek; Ntayi, Joseph M.; Muhwezi, Moses; Eyaa, Sarah; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin
The paradigm shift from traditional collaborations to E-collaborations is due to the continued developments in internet enabled communication technologies and globalization trends that have complicated supply chain management operations. Because of the dynamic environment and the need for firms to remain competitive, this study focused on establishing the significance of introducing internet technologies to increase the effect of collaboration arrangements on physical distribution service quality. Data was collected from 270 manufacturers and distributors in Kampala District and analysed using SPSS. The findings revealed that Internet technologies have a more significant relationship on collaboration arrangements than Physical Distribution Service Quality. The study also makes numerous contributions through identification of the internet technologies as an intervening variable and also provides practical implications on how to apply internet technologies in collaboration arrangements to improve PDSQ in Uganda’s’ beverage industry.
Competitive advantage in SMEs: effect of supply chain management practices, logistics capabilities and logistics integration in a developing country
(Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2021) Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Mutebi, Henry; Kyomuhendo, Rhona
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between supply chain management practices, logistics capabilities, logistics integration and competitive advantage of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in a developing country. Design/methodology/approach – Using a structured questionnaire survey, cross-sectional data collected from 204 SMEs in Kampala – Uganda were analysed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using AMOS version 26 to validate the theorised relationships. Findings – The study findings revealed that both supply chain management practices and logistics integration are positively and significantly associated with competitive advantage. Also, both supply chain management practices and logistics capabilities are positively and significantly associated with logistics integration. Additionally, the authors found that logistics integration partially mediates in the relationships between supply chain management practices and competitive advantage, and logistics capabilities and competitive advantage. Conclusively, the three independent variables collectively account for 11% variance in competitive advantage of SMEs. Originality/value – Given the general observation that SMEs are fundamental to socio-economic development, yet resource constrained, this study uses Resource-based and dynamic capabilities theoretical perspectives to provide an empirical understanding of the supply chain and logistics resources and capabilities necessary for building competitive advantage of SMEs in the context of a developing economy.
Information integration, procurement internal controls, material and purchasing procedure standardization and procurement performance in humanitarian organizations
(Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management., 2023) Muhwezi, Moses; Mutebi, Henry; Ssekajja Mayanja, Samuel; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Namagembe, Sheila; Kalema, Robert
Purpose – Procuring relief products and services is a challenging process for humanitarian organizations (HOs), yet it accounts for approximately 65% of relief operations’ costs (Moshtari et al., 2021). This paper aims to examine how procurement internal controls, materials and purchasing procedure standardization influence information integration and procurement performance. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, partial least square structural equation models and multigroup analysis were used to analyze data collected from 170 HOs. Findings – Procurement internal controls and material and purchasing procedure standardization fully mediate between information integration and procurement performance. Research limitations/implications – The study focuses only on HOs. Since humanitarian procurement projects take place over a period of several years, it is difficult to capture the long-term effects of information integration, procurement internal controls, material and purchasing procedure standardization and procurement performance. In this regard, a longitudinal study could be undertaken, provided that the required resources are available. Practical implications – Procurement managers should implement information integration practices within acceptable procurement internal controls and standardize material and purchasing procedures to boost procurement performance. Originality/value – By integrating information through procurement internal controls and standardizing material and purchasing procedures, procurement performance in a humanitarian setting can be systematically optimized.
Road Communication Technologies and Safety Regulation Enforcement on Roads in Uganda
(International Journal of Advances in management and Economics, 2012) Friday, Derek; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Muhwezi, Moses
The growing concern for safety regulation enforcement is attributed to the increasing carnage of road injuries and deaths from road accidents in Uganda. With bad driver behaviours accounting for 80% to 95% road crashes, this study sought to establish whether road communication technologies can improve safety regulation enforcement and deter such behaviour. Data was collected from 285 respondents comprising of traffic officers and analysed using SPSS. The study also critics the Risk Homoeostasis Theory and makes numerous contributions to theory and practice and also provides both policy implications and recommendations to improve road safety regulation enforcement.
Supplier performance in the public healthcare: internal social capital, logistics capabilities and supply chain risk management capabilities as antecedents in a developing economy
(Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2021) Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Mutebi, Henry; Isabirye, Daniel
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it intends to explore the link between internal social capital, logistics capabilities, supply chain risk management (SCRM) capabilities and supplier performance. Second, the mediating effect of logistics capabilities between internal social capital and SCRM capabilities, and that of SCRM capabilities between logistics capabilities and supplier performance are also examined. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model developed from the extant literature was empirically validated through a cross-sectional survey of 122 respondents in 52 public healthcare facilities in Uganda. The data were analysed using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings – The study found that internal social capital and SCRM capabilities are significant predictors of supplier performance. Internal social capital is positively and significantly related to logistics capabilities, and logistics capabilities are positively and significantly related to SCRM capabilities. The authors also found nonsignificant relationships between internal social capital and SCRM capabilities, and between logistics capabilities and supplier performance. Furthermore, it was revealed that logistics capabilities play a partial mediating role in the relationship between internal social capital and SCRM capabilities, while SCRM capabilities fully mediate between logistics capabilities and supplier performance. Originality/value – Further to providing empirical evidence of the antecedents of supplier performance in the public healthcare in a developing economy, which has been evidently scant, this study provides initial empirical evidence of the mediating role of logistics capabilities in the relationship between internal social capital and SCRM capabilities and that of SCRM capabilities in the relationship between logistics capabilities and supplier performance. This is important for understanding the mechanism through which supplier performance can be enhanced.
Supply chain information integration, supply chain innovativeness and supply chain resilience among manufacturing firms in a developing context
(Continuity & Resilience Review, 2023) Muhwezi, Moses; Mutebi, Henry; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Mayanja, Samuel S.; Izimba Kasiko, Isabella; Balunywa, Rashid
The purpose of this study is to empirically explore the influence of supply chain information integration (SCII) on supply chain innovativeness (SCI) and supply chain resilience (SCRE). Design/methodology/approach – Data from 403 manufacturing companies in Uganda were analyzed using Analysis of Moments of Structures version 27. Unmeasured common latent factors were used to minimize the bias of common methods. Findings – SCII, SCI and SCRE have significant positive relationships. About 41% of SCII and SCRE are partially mediated by SCI. Research limitations/implications – Considering variations in perception of SCRE, the cross-sectional nature of the study limits generalizability and transferability. Experiments and interviews are recommended to explore differences between firms in SCRE. Practical implications – SCII and SCI capabilities buffer a firm’s SCRE. Originality/value – This study establishes SCI as a mediator between SCII and SCRE by studying manufacturing firms in a developing country context.
Supply Chain Quality Integration in Manufacturing Firms: Examining the Role of Intellectual Capital and Absorptive Capacity In a Developing Economy
(ORSEA JOURNAL, 2023) Kabagambe, Levi; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Mutebi, Henry; Otaryebwa, Mike
This paper explores the direct relationship between intellectual capital and supply chain quality integration (SCQI). Furthermore, the indirect effect of intellectual capital through absorptive capacity is also explored. Based on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities perspective and relational view, a theoretical model developed from the extant literature was empirically validated through a cross-sectional survey of 101 manufacturing firms in Uganda. The data were analysed by using correlations and regressions. The findings revealed that intellectual capital has a positive and significant effect on absorptive capacity – absorptive capacity also positively and significantly influences SCQI. Moreover, intellectual capital significantly influences SCQI both directly and indirectly through the partial mediation of absorptive capacity. The fundamental novelty of this article is contribution to the limited empirical studies on SCQI and its antecedents by incorporating the three components of intellectual capital besides unveiling empirical evidence confirming the partial mediating role of absorptive capacity in the intellectual capital- SCQI relationship in manufacturing firms in a developing country context.
Supply chain resilience in a developing country context: a case study on the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes
(Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2017) Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin; Stevenson, Mark; Busby, Jerry
Purpose – In few prior empirical studies on supply chain resilience (SCRES), the focus has been on the developed world. Yet, organisations in developing countries constitute a significant part of global supply chains and have also experienced the disastrous effects of supply chain failures. The purpose of this paper is therefore to empirically investigate SCRES in a developing country context and to show that this also provides theoretical insights into the nature of what is meant by resilience. Design/methodology/approach – Using a case study approach, a supply network of 20 manufacturing firms in Uganda is analysed based on a total of 45 interviews. Findings – The perceived threats to SCRES in this context are mainly small-scale, chronic disruptive events rather than discrete, large-scale catastrophic events typically emphasised in the literature. The data reveal how threats of disruption, resilience strategies and outcomes are interrelated in complex, coupled and non-linear ways. These interrelationships are explained by the political, cultural and territorial embeddedness of the supply network in a developing country. Further, this embeddedness contributes to the phenomenon of supply chain risk migration, whereby an attempt to mitigate one threat produces another threat and/or shifts the threat to another point in the supply network. Practical implications – Managers should be aware, for example, of potential risk migration from one threat to another when crafting strategies to build SCRES. Equally, the potential for risk migration across the supply network means managers should look at the supply chain holistically because actors along the chain are so interconnected. Originality/value – The paper goes beyond the extant literature by highlighting how SCRES is not only about responding to specific, isolated threats but about the continuous management of risk migration. It demonstrates that resilience requires both an understanding of the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes and an understanding of the embeddedness of the supply network. Finally, this study’s focus on the context of a developing country reveals that resilience should be equally concerned both with smaller in scale, chronic disruptions and with occasional, large-scale catastrophic events.
Vertical Collaboration and Physical Distribution Service Quality in Uganda’s Soft Drinks Demand Chains
(International Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 2011) Friday, Derek; Ntayi, Joseph M.; Muhwezi, Moses; Eyaa, Sarah; Tukamuhabwa, Benjamin
The purpose of this study was to explain physical distribution service quality in the soft drinks’ demand chain using the collaboration dimensions of information sharing, incentive alignment and decision synchronization. The study was motivated by the desire to explore an area that has been understudied in Uganda and also make a contribution by providing knowledge on the factors affecting the performance of soft drinks’ distribution chains. Data was collected from manufacturers and distributors in Kampala District. The findings revealed that the collaboration dimensions were significant predictors of physical distribution service quality. Incentive alignment was found to be a significant predictor of physical distribution service quality while decision synchronization and information sharing were insignificant predictors. This study makes numerous contributions that have been highlighted and also provides implications for theory and practice.

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