Supply chain collaboration and innovation capability: the moderated mediating role of quality management

With the establishment of a collaboration supply chain mechanism enterprises can obtain greater opportunities to prosper within the current highly competitive business environment. These enterprises can then obtain sustainable competitive advantage and business excellence based on superior supply chain capabilities and improvement of operating costs, product quality, and innovation capabilities. The objects of this study are the upstream, midstream, and downstream suppliers of the supply chain for Taiwan's optoelectronics industry. A total of 454 effective questionnaires were recovered. The relationships of supply chain collaboration, supply chain capability, and innovative capability were tested through a structural equation model. Furthermore, quality management was used to explore the existence of the effect of moderated mediation in the research model. Finally, it was found that supply chain collaboration can directly and indirectly have a positive influence on innovation capability, and the effect of moderated mediation does exist in the research model.

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By establishing a collaborative supply chain mechanism, enterprises can thrive in the competitive business environment, enhance supply chain capabilities, and achieve innovation. The study found that supply chain collaboration has a positive impact on innovation capability, and moderated mediation effects exist.