An empirical study of suppliers' innovative capabilities and their relationship with customers

作者：He Mao; He Bingquan

来源：3rd International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China, 2007-09-08 to 2007-09-09.

• innovative capabilities
• new product development supplier-customer relationships

The basic premise of this study is that suppliers, in order to compete successfully in the marketplace, have to develop certain innovative capabilities that, in turn, depend on the type of relationship that is established with customers. Based on a study of 197 suppliers operating in the packaging machinery industry in China, structural equation modelling and multiple hierarchical regression are used to reveal the relationship between suppliers' innovation capability and their different roles in the supply chain. The research findingslend support to the hypothesis that the level of investment in technology and the acquisition of specific managerial capabilities are,to a large extent, a determinant of supplier-customer interdependence.

• 出版日期2007
• 单位昆明学院