Supply Chain Performance in the Wooden Furniture Industry: The Effect of Institutional Pressures and Supply Chain Integration in a Developing Country Context
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Date
2023
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Journal of African Business
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between
institutional pressures, supply chain integration and supply chain
performance in the wooden furniture industry. Cross-sectional survey
data collected from 86 registered wooden furniture firms in
Uganda were analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural
Equation Modeling. The study revealed that institutional pressures
are positively and significantly related with supply chain performance
and that supply chain integration plays a partial mediating
role in the institutional pressures-supply chain performance relationship.
Further, our component level analysis of institutional
pressures reveals that whereas coercive pressure has a discernible
positive influence on both supply chain integration and supply
chain performance, mimetic pressure does not, while normative
pressure positively influences only supply chain integration. These
results underline the need to understand the role of individual
components of institutional pressures and integration requirements
in strategic supply chain management practice in order to
boost supply chain performance of the wooden furniture firms.
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Keywords
Institutional pressures, Supply chain integration, Supply chain performance, Wooden furniture, Developing country
Citation
Benjamin R. Tukamuhabwa, Henry Mutebi & Ballam A. Ojok (22 May 2023): Supply Chain Performance in the Wooden Furniture Industry: The Effect of Institutional Pressures and Supply Chain Integration in a Developing Country Context, Journal of African Business, DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2023.2215572