Purpose

Much has been written on the effect of fast-moving business environments on organizational and supply chain (SC) management. Yet, empirical findings on the effect of changing external and internal contingencies on today’s globalized agrifood SC networks and performance are still fragmented into different organizational instruments, with some conflicting results remaining unexplained. This study aims to address these deficiencies by providing a comprehensive research framework to investigate how SC external and internal contingencies jointly influence organizational SC network structures and agrifood performance across mutually dependent tiers.

Design/methodology/approach

Using partial least squares structural equation modeling, the so-called “contingency–netchain–performance” framework, based on contingent resource-based theory and the netchain approach, was empirically tested on data obtained from a standardized survey of 405 artisanal producers and 238 processors in the Nigerian shrimp sector.

Findings

The results provide statistical evidence that supports the path dependency of firm performance from the interplay of vertical, horizontal and lateral relationships and, primordially, from both external and internal contingencies. The findings show that the contingency paradigm of fit among small-scale food producers and processors cuts across tiers and uncover a tendency to adopt relational governance and tighter network structures that result in an organic organization as the best-fitting structure.

Originality/value

The paper presents a new research framework that offers comprehensive empirical explanations for the joint influence of SC external and internal contingencies on organizational SC network structures and performance across mutually dependent agrifood tiers. This study’s conceptual, practical and policy implications for SC management provide a nascent and flexible basis on which to identify the best-fitting organizational strategies that maximize firm performance across agrifood SC tiers characterized by changing business environments.

中文翻译：

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基于或有资源的食品网络链组织和企业绩效的观点：一个综合的定量框架

目的

关于快速变化的商业环境对组织和供应链 (SC) 管理的影响的文章很多。然而，关于不断变化的外部和内部突发事件对当今全球化农产品供应链网络和绩效的影响的实证研究结果仍然分散在不同的组织工具中，一些相互矛盾的结果仍然无法解释。本研究旨在通过提供一个全面的研究框架来解决这些缺陷，以调查 SC 外部和内部突发事件如何共同影响组织的 SC 网络结构和跨相互依赖层的农产品绩效。

设计/方法/途径

使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型，基于或有资源理论和网络链方法的所谓“应急-网络链-绩效”框架，对从 405 家手工生产商和 238 家加工商的标准化调查中获得的数据进行了实证测试在尼日利亚虾业。

发现

结果提供了统计证据，支持公司绩效的路径依赖性，来自纵向、横向和横向关系的相互作用，并且最初来自外部和内部偶然事件。研究结果表明，小规模食品生产商和加工商之间适合的权变范式跨越层级，并揭示了采用关系治理和更紧密的网络结构的趋势，从而使有机组织成为最适合的结构。

原创性/价值

本文提出了一个新的研究框架，为 SC 外部和内部突发事件对组织 SC 网络结构和跨相互依赖的农产品层级的绩效的共同影响提供了全面的实证解释。本研究对 SC 管理的概念、实践和政策影响提供了一个新生和灵活的基础，在此基础上可以确定最合适的组织战略，以最大限度地提高以不断变化的商业环境为特征的农产品 SC 层级的公司绩效。