Integration, supply chain resilience, and service performance in third-party logistics providers

Emerald - Tập 29 Số 1 - Trang 5-21 - 2018
Chiung-Lin Liu1, Ming-Yu Lee1
1Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, College of Maritime Science and Management, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

Tóm tắt

Purpose

Supply chain resilience (SCR) is essential to the success of firms. However, very few studies have focused on the relationships between different types of integration, SCR and service performance from the perspective of third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The purpose of this paper is to develop and assesses a conceptual model for these relationships.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 161 3PLs in Taiwan were surveyed and their responses were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM/PLS).

Findings

The responses of respondents demonstrated that, of the three types of integration (internal integration, customer integration and logistics collaborator integration) used by 3PLs, internal integration had the greatest effect on SCR. Customer integration was found to have three fully mediating effects on the relationships between internal integration and service performance, between logistics collaborator integration and SCR, and between logistics collaborator integration and service performance.

Originality/value

This study provides useful information on how different types of integration manifest in the SCR and service performance of 3PLs.

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