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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 710-723Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-04-2022-0169
Keywords
Supply chain finance; Supply chain collaboration; Transaction dependence; Information transparency
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Although supply chain collaboration theoretically boosts the adoption of supply chain finance through information sharing and cost savings, many companies with good supply chain partnerships still hesitate to engage in SCF. This study aims to explore how information transparency and transaction dependence influence the relationship between SCC and SCF adoption.
PurposeAlthough supply chain collaboration (SCC) theoretically boosts the adoption of supply chain finance (SCF) through information sharing and cost savings, many companies with good supply chain partnerships still hesitate to engage in SCF. To disentangle this puzzle, this study aims to explore how two dimensions of information transparency (i.e. information quantity and information quality) and two types of transaction dependence (i.e. dependence on suppliers and dependence on customers) influence the relationship between SCC and SCF adoption. Design/methodology/approachThis study uses secondary survey data from a Chinese bank, including 464 Chinese companies that have adopted SCF to varying degrees. This study then performs the logistic regression analysis to test the hypotheses. FindingsThis study empirically confirms that SCC shows a positive relationship with SCF adoption. More interestingly, information quantity negatively moderates this positive relationship, whereas information quality positively moderates this positive relationship. Most surprisingly, dependence on customers rather than dependence on suppliers strengthens this positive relationship. Originality/valueThis study makes theoretical contributions to the SCF literature by demonstrating the distinct moderating mechanisms regarding the relationship between SCC and SCF adoption. The findings also help companies reexamine their interactions with supply chain members.
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