Suplier innovation in a network realm: from an empirical theory-tesing view

主题：Suplier innovation in a network realm: from an empirical theory-tesing view
主要内容：With the growing demand for smarter, cleaner, and safer cars, automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly seeking novel inventions from innovative new or foreign suppliers. However, not all innovative suppliers are equally valuable for an OEM. When transforming novel inventions into products, OEMs could find it challenging to work with the suppliers with whom they lack trust or have limited shared understanding. In this study, we adopt a social capital perspective to understand how three types of social capital (i.e., structural, relational, and cognitive) influence a supplier's innovation value to the OEM. Hypotheses are tested using a unique data set combining the supply network structure and automotive supplier innovation award. Our results suggest that it is more difficult to obtain innovation value from a new or culturally distant foreign supplier. However, we also found that suppliers whose networks overlap more with the OEM's network are more likely to provide valuable innovations to the OEM, an effect that is stronger for culturally distant suppliers. This study contributes to the supply network and innovation literature by highlighting the importance of understanding the dyadic social capital between the buyer and supplier when evaluating innovation value of a supplier to a buying firm.
专家姓名：严婷婷
工作单位：Wayne State University
专长和学术成就：She is a member of DSI, POM and AOM and serves as an associate editor for Journal of Operations Management and Journal of Supply Chain Management, and an Editorial Board reviewer for Decision Science and Journal of Business Logistics. She is frequently recognized by top journals, such as Journal of Operations Management and Journal of Supply Chain Management, as the Best Reviewer of the Year, for several times. Her work has been published in Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, International Journal of Procurement Management and International Journal of Logistics Management. Specialties: New product development, buyer-supplier collaboration, supply network, culture, bounded rationality, empirical research, structural equation modeling, survey, behavioral experiments.
专家简介：Tingting Yan is an associate professor in the Marketing and Global Supply Chain department at Wayne State University. Her research interests are in innovation and supply chain management. Her doctoral dissertation specifically focuses on manufacturer-supplier collaboration in new product development. Her dissertation work has won the ISM dissertation award in 2010. She teaches in areas of supply chain management, quality management and strategic supply management. She has been leading a Study Abroad in China program for several years, which gives her an opportunity to teach strategic supply management to US and Chinese students in the classroom of a top five university in China.
时间：2020-11-24 10:00:00
地点：腾讯会议