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Evaluating Supply Chain Integration Literature

Introduction

The level of activities among service providers, customers, and supplier have increased

significantly over the last few decades, and hence there is a need for integrating them to work

together which refers to Supply Chain Integration (SCI). For the last twenty years, SCI has been

one of the highly researched topics in the supply chain management, and there has been an

argument on whether SCI influence the performance of a firm or not. This paper will be based on

a review of meta-analysis study that was carried out by Leuschner, Rogers, and Charvet in the

year 2013, to identify the relationship between SCI and the performance of a firm.

The paper will identify one of the theoretical that was used in the article and the variables

that were considered. The second part of the paper will focus on the hypothesis that was tested

and the finds of the study. The last part of the article will discuss the conclusively the results that

were obtained from the study.

Theoretical Framework and Variables

The article used two main theories to substantiate the analysis, which was Resource-

Based View (RBV) and Resource Advantage theory (RA) in the primary category and other

approaches in the second group (Leuschner, Rogers & Charvet, 2013). This section will focus on

Resource-Based View (RBV) theory, which argues that a firm can be viewed as a collection of

resources where some are considered as strategic resources. The theory contends that strategic

resources are rare, valuable sustainable and perfectly imitable and since they are distributed

across the firm they can lead to competitive advantage. Supply chain scholar argues that SCI can

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Running head: EVALUATING SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION LITERATURE Evaluating Supply Chain Integration Literature Name Institution 1 EVALUATING SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION LITERATURE 2 Evaluating Supply Chain Integration Literature Introduction The level of activities among service providers, customers, and supplier have increased significantly over the last few decades, and hence there is a need for integrating them to work together which refers to Supply Chain Integration (SCI). For the last twenty years, SCI has been one of the highly researched topics in the supply chain management, and there has been an argument on whether SCI influence the performance of a firm or not. This paper will be based on a review of meta-analysis study that was carried out by Leuschner, Rogers, and Charvet in the year 2013, to identify the relationship between SCI and the performance of a firm. The paper will identify one of the theoretical that was used in the article and the variables that were considered. The second part of the paper will focus on the hypothesis that was tested and the finds of the study. The last part of the article will discuss the conclusively the results that were obtained from the study. Theoretical Framework and Variables The article used two main theories to substantiate the analysis, which was ResourceBased View (RBV) and Resource Advantage theory (RA) in the primary category and other approaches in the second group (Leuschner, Rogers & Charvet, 2013). This section will ...
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