The Antecedent Role of Quality, Information Sharing and Supply Chain Proximity on Strategic Alliance Formation and Performance

Abstract

In this paper, we present the notion of buyer-supplier relationship architecture. The relationship architecture emphasizes the aspects of just-in-time that relates to linking with suppliers and customers. We conceptualize it to be composed of quality considerations from suppliers, information sharing and trust, and supply chain proximity. A model is proposed and tested to highlight the role of these operational issues associated with relationship architecture on strategic alliance formation and on supply chain performance. A structural equation modeling approach is used to investigate our hypotheses.

Keywords: Quality, Information sharing, Supply chain proximity, Strategic alliance, Performance