Integration: Attitudes, patterns and practices
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Integration: Attitudes, patterns and practicesDate
2013-04Publisher
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VALLET-BELLMUNT, Teresa; RIVERA-TORRES, Pilar. Integration: attitudes, patterns and practices. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2013, 18.3: 308-323.Type
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Purpose: This work has two main objectives: 1) to obtain a set of scales for measuring the patterns, attitudes and practices of integration that can be extrapolated to different scopes (both internal and external) and ... [+]
Purpose: This work has two main objectives: 1) to obtain a set of scales for measuring the patterns, attitudes and practices of integration that can be extrapolated to different scopes (both internal and external) and participants (supplier and customer) within the supply chain; and 2) to evaluate the relations between the different components of integration.
Design/methodology/approach: Based on previous literature on the content, measurement and scope of the concept of integration, a model is presented and tested using structural equation modelling. Data were collected from 450 enterprises from the Spanish construction materials sector.
Findings: Our results suggest that integration is a multidimensional concept that covers the different organisational levels of the company: corporate through attitudes; strategic through patterns, and operative through practices. These components have a different structure and, although attitudes and patterns behave similarly, practices do not, and so there is no single dimension of integration that includes the three levels. With regard to scope, internal and external integration are related but do not constitute one single concept of integration. It therefore cannot be measured as a single dimension in order to relate the integration of the firm with its (corporate, logistic or marketing) performance.
Research limitations: From a methodological point of view, data were collected from a single sector, in a single moment in time and with a single respondent in each company.
Practical implications: Patterns and attitudes have a complete, corporative and strategic content, whereas practices are independent from each other and have a more operational vision.
Originality/value: Unlike studies that analyse integration and its relationship with outcomes, this work focuses on the concept of integration itself by analysing its three components. Thus, it extends the study of internal and external integration and focuses on the behaviour of the enterprise with two different members of the supply chain (suppliers and customers), thereby extending the analysis beyond the dyad. [-]
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