Abstract
Supplier integration into new product development (NPD) necessitates effective information exchange and absorption between a buyer and a supplier. While prior research has emphasized the buyer's ability to manage the supplier's interface, this research takes a supplier perspective and investigates under which circumstances a supplier's interorganizational information processing capability (IIPC) drives the supplier's component development performance. We take a contingency view and theorize that the effect of the supplier's IIPC is either amplified or dampened by three sources of buyer-incurred project uncertainty: a buyer's component novelty, a buyer's engineering change orders (ECOs), and a buyer's knowledge protectiveness. The hypotheses are tested with data collected from 103 supplier component development projects in South Korea. As a result, this study empirically demonstrates the significant effects of a supplier's IIPC in enhancing the supplier's component development performance. In addition, we substantiate that the magnitude of a buyer's ECOs positively amplifies the benefits of the supplier's IIPC, while the buyer's knowledge protectiveness significantly hampers it. Academic and managerial implications are presented, and future research directions are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 169-183 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | International Journal of Production Economics |
Volume | 210 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Apr |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Business, Management and Accounting(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering