2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Managing Competition and Cooperation in Supply Network for Buyer Innovation: A Social Network Perspective
Project/Area Number |
20K13568
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
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Research Institution | Waseda University |
Principal Investigator |
YANG XIAOTIAN 早稲田大学, 商学学術院, 助教 (30843940)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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Keywords | innovation / inter-firm relationship / competition / cooperation / supplier network |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has investigated the influence of horizontal S-S competition and cooperation in the supplier network on the ego manufacturer’s innovation. It takes the ego manufacturer’s supplier network as the analysis unit with data of 130 listed Japanese manufacturers and their supplier networks in 2016. The results indicate that S-S cooperation have inverted U-shaped effects on manufacturer’s innovation and S-S competition can play a moderating role in the relationship between S-S cooperation and manufacturer’s innovation. It also shows simultaneously maintaining low competition and moderate cooperation among suppliers is the best choice for manufacturer’s innovation, but when there is high S-S competition, motivating high cooperation among suppliers is also a way to enhance manufacturer’s innovation.
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Free Research Field |
strategic management
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This study contributes by linking the dyadic analysis of vertical relationships to the network analysis of supplier-supplier relations. It also provides insights to manufacturers’ policymakers on how to strategically manage their supplier networks for improve their innovation performance.
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