Supplier innovation in a network realm: From a conceptual theory-building view

主题：Supplier innovation in a network realm: From a conceptual theory-building view
主要内容：To understand how a supplier helps a buying company create value through innovations, studies have focused on a supplier's internal resources or its relationship with a buying company. Building upon this body of literature, we develop a theory of supplier network-based innovation value in this conceptual paper. This theory explains how a supplier's upstream and downstream value network can be a source of competitive advantage for a buying company. Specifically, it proposes that the levels and types of supplier innovation value is contingent on the configuration of a dual-ego value network, characterized by the locus and degree of buyer-supplier structural equivalence. This theory also explains how a supplier's ties with a buying firm's competitors can pose both opportunity and risk to buying company innovation. This theory contributes to the literature by showing when “seemingly undesirable” suppliers, due to a lack of technical capability or strong relationship with a buying company, might still be valuable to a buying company's innovation.
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：2020-11-19 10:00:00
地点：腾讯会议