Purpose

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to provide a measurement instrument for supply chain 4.0 ambidexterity by applying the theoretical perspective of ambidexterity to advance Industry 4.0; secondly, to empirically analyse how supply chain 4.0 ambidexterity and lean supply chain management contribute to enhancing the focal firm’s operational performance.

Design/methodology/approach

Empirical results are obtained through analysis of survey data from a sample of 209 Spanish focal firms in industrial sectors in an intermediate position in the supply chain. Structural equation modelling was performed to test the three proposed hypotheses.

Findings

Drawing on resource orchestration theory and the relational resource-based view, this study empirically demonstrates the full mediating role of lean supply chain management in the relationship between supply chain 4.0 ambidexterity and the focal firm’s operational performance.

Originality/value

Although recent research has highlighted the pertinence of applying inter-organisational ambidexterity to foster Industry 4.0 (Hofmann et al., 2019), to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to apply this theoretical framework to explain the transition to supply chain 4.0. In addition, to date, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no study exists that has developed a measurement scale and used this concept in an empirical analysis to advance theory development.

中文翻译：

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供应链 4.0 双元性和精益供应链管理：相互关系及其对焦点公司运营绩效的影响

目的

本文的目的有两个：第一，运用双元化的理论视角来推进工业4.0，为供应链4.0双元化提供测量工具；其次，实证分析供应链4.0双元化和精益供应链管理如何有助于提升焦点企业的运营绩效。

设计/方法论/途径

实证结果是通过对 209 家位于供应链中间位置的工业部门的西班牙焦点企业样本的调查数据进行分析而获得的。进行结构方程建模来检验所提出的三个假设。

发现

本研究借鉴资源编排理论和基于关系资源的观点，实证论证了精益供应链管理在供应链4.0双元性与焦点企业运营绩效之间关系中的充分中介作用。

原创性/价值

尽管最近的研究强调了应用组织间双元性来促进工业 4.0 的相关性（Hofmann等人，2019），但据作者所知，这是最早应用这一理论框架来解释工业 4.0 的研究之一。向供应链4.0过渡。此外，迄今为止，据作者所知，还没有研究开发出测量量表并在实证分析中使用这一概念来推进理论发展。