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Strategic Responses to Supply Chain Disruptions: How Trust and Dependence Influence Buffering and Bridging Strategies in Dyadic Supply Chain Relationships
Seuntiëns, R.A.A. (2025) Strategic Responses to Supply Chain Disruptions: How Trust and Dependence Influence Buffering and Bridging Strategies in Dyadic Supply Chain Relationships.
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| Abstract: | There are two types of strategies a company can implement to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of supply chain disruptions: buffering and bridging approaches (Bode et al., 2011, p. 834; Manhart et al., 2020, pp. 66-67). This study examines how buyer dependence, perceived supplier dependence, focal company’s trust and relationship length in the dyadic supply chain relationship influence the focal company’s decision to implement buffering and/or bridging strategies. Moreover, this study analyses how buffering and bridging strategies are interrelated. These relationships are examined using a policy-capturing experiment conducted at a case company in the Netherlands. The results show that buyer dependence and perceived supplier dependence positively influence the focal company’s likelihood of implementing bridging approaches. Additionally, buyer dependence has a positive (negative) influence on the focal company’s likelihood of implementing buffering strategies if perceived supplier dependence is low (high). Furthermore, while focal company’s trust has a positive influence on the focal company’s likelihood of implementing bridging strategies, it is negatively related to the implementation of buffering strategies. Moreover, contrary to previous research, this study finds a negative correlation between the implementation of buffering and bridging strategies. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106057 |
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