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The Role of Operational Absorptive Capacity on Supply Chain Risk

  • Received : 2021.11.07
  • Accepted : 2021.11.28
  • Published : 2021.12.30
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Abstract

As the business environment becomes more rapid and unpredictable change, greater diversity, increased complexity, and intensified competitive pressures, supply chain risk management has been growing attention over the past several decades. However, little of known about how absorptive capacity can mitigate supply chain risk for improving operational performance despite its important role in responding to supply chain risk. Therefore, we aim to examine the role of organizational-level absorptive capacity on operational performance, and further identify how the interplay of individual-level and organizational-level absorptive capacity results in operational performance. Our results represent not only direct but also indirect effects of supply chain risk on operational performance, mediated by organizational-level absorptive capacity. Furthermore, this study reveals that individual-level absorptive capacity enhances the effect of organizational-level absorptive capacity on operational performance.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (NRF-2019S1A5A2A03054143)

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