The impact of industry 4.0 on supply chain capability and supply chain resilience: A dynamic resource-based view

Huang, Kerry; Wang, Kedi; Lee, Peter K.C.; Yeung, Andy C.L.

Abstract

Industry 4.0, a collection of emerging intelligent and digital technologies, has been the main interest of both researchers and practitioners in operations management (OM) in recent years. Despite its proclaimed effectiveness in supply chain (SC) management, empirical studies examining the effects of Industry 4.0 adoption on SC resilience have been underrepresented in the current OM literature. In our study, we explore the effects of 16 Industry 4.0 technologies and IT advancement concerning SC resilience through the mediating roles of SC capabilities with respect to SC collaboration and SC visibility. Following the dynamic resource-based view (RBV), we regard Industry 4.0 adoption and IT advancement as two important IT resources with heterogeneity, SC collaboration and SC visibility as essential SC dynamic capabilities, and SC resilience as competitive advantages. We suggest the combination and evolution of IT resources and dynamic SC capabilities helps firms obtain the competitive advantage regarding SC resilience. Using data from a survey of 408 Chinese manufacturing firms, we reveal Industry 4.0 adoption is positively related to IT advancement and that Industry 4.0 has a nonsignificant impact on SC capabilities, whereas IT advancement has a positive impact on SC capabilities. Additionally, both SC collaboration and visibility positively influence SC resilience and significantly mediate the impacts of Industry 4.0 and IT advancement on SC resilience. Our study offers an enhanced understanding of the specific flows between Industry 4.0 and SC resilience and provides nuanced insights for both literature and practice.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 12, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 15, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-08
• Deposit Date: Jun 1, 2023
• Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
• Print ISSN: 0925-5273
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-7579
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 262
• Article Number: 108913
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108913
• Keywords: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Management Science and Operations Research; Economics and Econometrics; General Business, Management and Accounting
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