Digital Culture Boosts Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainable Performance
A strong digital organizational culture significantly enhances a company's ability to adapt to disruptions and achieve sustainable business outcomes.
Journal of Cleaner Production · 2023
Key Findings
- 01Digital organizational culture has a positive direct effect on absorptive capacity and supply chain resilience.
- 02Digital organizational culture indirectly enhances sustainable performance by improving absorptive capacity and supply chain resilience.
Application
Design takeaway
Prioritize the cultivation of a digital organizational culture to build more robust and sustainable supply chains.
How to apply
When designing or redesigning supply chain systems, assess and advocate for the adoption of digital tools and practices that foster a culture of adaptability and continuous learning.
Project actions
- 01When researching supply chains, consider how digital tools and company culture interact.
- 02Think about how a company's internal digital readiness affects its ability to handle external shocks.
Method & Evidence
Variables
Strengths & Limitations
Strengths
- +Integrates multiple key constructs (DOC, AC, SCR, SP) into a single model.
- +Provides empirical evidence from a developing economy context.
Limitations
It can be challenging to objectively measure 'digital organizational culture' and 'absorptive capacity' in a design project.
Reliability & validity
The study uses established scales for measuring the constructs, contributing to reliability, and the PLS analysis helps establish validity by examining the relationships between these constructs.
Think critically
To what extent can a 'digital organizational culture' be intentionally designed or cultivated, and what are the key design interventions required?
Design Principles
"Organizational digital maturity is a prerequisite for adaptive and sustainable supply chain design."
In today's volatile global landscape, designing resilient and sustainable supply chains is paramount. This research highlights how fostering a digital-first mindset within an organization is a critical, yet often overlooked, driver for achieving these goals.
What This Means for Your Design
Having a company that embraces digital technology and ways of working helps its supply chain bounce back from problems and be better for the environment and society.
How to use in your project
- 1.This study provides a framework for investigating how digital culture impacts supply chain resilience and sustainability, which can be adapted for design projects exploring similar themes.
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Quick Cite
(2023). Digital organizational culture and absorptive capacity as precursors to supply chain resilience and sustainable performance. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138411 Retrieved from https://designdex.org/study/36a44c95-a286-4b7a-87d2-88aeebd96e4c/digital-culture-boosts-supply-chain-resilience-and-sustainable-performance
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This research highlights the critical role of digital organizational culture in fostering supply chain resilience and sustainable performance, suggesting that a company's internal digital maturity directly influences its capacity to adapt to disruptions and achieve broader sustainability goals.
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Journal of Cleaner Production
Digital organizational culture and absorptive capacity as precursors to supply chain resilience and sustainable performance
journal · 2023
View sourceQuestions about this research
- What does the research say about digital culture boosts supply chain resilience and sustainable performance?
- Prioritize the cultivation of a digital organizational culture to build more robust and sustainable supply chains. Evidence: Journal of Cleaner Production (2023).
- Why does "Digital Culture Boosts Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainable Performance" matter for design?
- In today's volatile global landscape, designing resilient and sustainable supply chains is paramount. This research highlights how fostering a digital-first mindset within an organization is a critical, yet often overlooked, driver for achieving these goals.
- How can designers apply this research?
- Prioritize the cultivation of a digital organizational culture to build more robust and sustainable supply chains.
- What were the main findings?
- Digital organizational culture has a positive direct effect on absorptive capacity and supply chain resilience.. Digital organizational culture indirectly enhances sustainable performance by improving absorptive capacity and supply chain resilience.
- What research method was used?
- Empirical research using quantitative analysis with 304 observations.
- How strong is the evidence?
- Evidence strength is rated Strong effect, based on a 2023 journal from Journal of Cleaner Production.
- What should I do differently in my next project?
- When designing or redesigning supply chain systems, assess and advocate for the adoption of digital tools and practices that foster a culture of adaptability and continuous learning.
- What are the limitations?
- The findings are specific to the manufacturing sector in Mexico and may not be directly generalizable to other industries or economic contexts.
- Is there evidence that supply chains affects design outcomes?
- Companies with a strong digital culture are better equipped to learn, adapt, and withstand disruptions in their supply chains, leading to improved environmental, social, and economic performance. In today's volatile global landscape, designing resilient and sustainable supply chains is paramount. This research highligh Source: Journal of Cleaner Production (2023).
- Where does this digital culture research apply?
- Manufacturing industries in a developing economy (Mexico) It sits within resource management research on designdex.org.
Related research topics
supply chains design research · evidence on supply chains · does supply chains improve design outcomes · digital culture studies for designers · supply chains and digital culture findings · resource management research evidence