Developing strategic supplier networks: An institutional perspective
Developing strategic supplier networks: An institutional perspective
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.12.003
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
11.3
通讯作者：
Ghauri, Pervez N.
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作者：
Deligonul, Seyda;Elg, Ulf;Ghauri, Pervez N.
本研究考察了供应商网络成员对两层社会影响的暴露程度。首先，当网络将演员连接到一个外国星座时，演员面临着全球性格的影响。其次，每个个体行动者都经历了来自其本土制度环境的不同力量。暴露于两种制度实践对每个网络成员来说都是一个难题。在这种二元性中，他们改变自己的行为，以解决分层力量的对比和冲突。通过借鉴制度理论和对全球零售商宜家的深入研究，本研究展示了零售商如何处理这种二元性。这项研究增加了对供应商网络如何在社会上转变为一种特殊资产的理解，这种资产对竞争对手来说是昂贵的，因此为公司提供了独特的竞争优势。本文在制度理论下用于宜家战略的框架强调了规范性、认知性和规范性社会化作为公司战略过程的一部分，以调整与合作伙伴的关系。(C) 2012爱思唯尔公司版权所有。
This study examines the exposure of the members of supplier networks to two layers of social influences. First, as the network connects an actor to a foreign constellation, the actor faces influences of a global character. Second, each individual actor experiences different forces emanating from its indigenous institutional environment. The exposure to two institutional practices presents a conundrum for each network member. In this duality they alter their behavior in order to resolve the contrast and clashes of layered forces. By drawing upon institutional theory and in-depth study of a global retailer, IKEA, this study shows how the retailer handles this duality. The study increases understanding of how a supplier network can be socially transformed into an idiosyncratic asset which is costly to imitate for rivals and thus offers a unique competitive advantage to the firm. The framing which is used for IKEA's strategy under institutional theory in this article underscores the regulative, cognitive, and normative socialization as part of a company's strategic process to align relationships with its partners. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.