Title: Role of supply chain resilience capacity in Chinese auto business relationships during disruption

Authors: A.S. Balakrishnan; Jayshree Suresh; R.M. Harindranath

Addresses: Material Planning and Logistics, Ford Motor Private Limited, Ford Global Business and Technology Centre, Elcot SEZ, Plot No. 13, 14 and 15, Sholinganallur, Chennai – 600119, Tamil Nadu, India ' Adjunct Faculty, Crescent School of Business, Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, GST Road, Vandalur, Chennai 600048.Tamil Nadu, India ' Paari School of Business, SRM University – AP, Amaravati, India

Abstract: To empirically examines the supply chain resilience capacity (SCRC) practices that emerged in Chinese automotive business relationships during disruption and to measure the impact of the business relationships on the firm's business performance (BP) and long-term B2B relationships. On the basis of literature review, an integrated framework was developed. Using questionnaire survey, 202 Chinese automotive practitioners responded the existing relationships. As per the findings, SCRC recovery during disruption situation exhibited the following effects: 1) promising and dark-side of relationships have curvilinear effect or U-shaped relation with BP and long-term B2B relationships; 2) direct effect of SCRC interdependencies with BP and long-term B2B relationships; 3) SCRC interdependencies positively moderate the nonlinear relationship between both the promising and dark-side of business relationships with BP, and only dark-side of nonlinear relationships with long-term B2B relations; 4) SCRC interdependencies does not moderate the promising side of nonlinear relationships with long-term B2B relations.

Keywords: B2B relationships; disruption; supply chain resilience capacity; SCRC; Chinese automotive business; business performance; BP.

DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2024.139391

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, 2024 Vol.15 No.2, pp.159 - 189

Accepted: 20 Feb 2023
Published online: 02 Jul 2024 *

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