The influence of environmental uncertainty and government support on supply chain integration

Abstract

Abstract: This paper aims to study the roles of environmental uncertainty and government support in affecting supply chain integration. It reveals the effect of environmental uncertainty on supplier integration, internal integration and customer integration and how government support moderates the relationship between environmental uncertainty and supply chain integration. Based on the sample of 180 manufacturing enterprises of Pearl River Delta area in Guangdong Province, this study uses hierarchical regression modeling and method of testing moderating effect to validate our hypotheses. The result shows that environmental uncertainty has significant positive influence on supplier integration, internal integration and customer integration. Government support moderates significantly the relationship between environmental uncertainty and external integration. However, government support does not moderate the relationship between environmental uncertainty and internal integration. The result indicates that environmental uncertainty is one of the driving factors which affect supply chain integration, and government support can change the effect of environmental uncertainty affecting external integration.

Key words: environmental uncertainty, government support, supply chain integration

CLC Number:

F274

Zeng Min'gang, Zhu Jia. The influence of environmental uncertainty and government support on supply chain integration[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(9): 79-86.

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