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TY - JOUR
T1 - Business Ecosystem Embeddedness to Enhance Supply Chain Competence
T2 - The Key Role of External Knowledge Capacities
AU - Riquelme-Medina, Marta
AU - Stevenson, Mark
AU - Barrales-Molina, Vanesa
AU - Llorens-Montes, Javier
PY - 2023/6/30
Y1 - 2023/6/30
N2 - Interest in business ecosystems has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article focuses on the operational benefits of business ecosystems by investigating how embeddedness in business ecosystems influences supply chain competence.Specifically, it considers the mediating effect of external knowledge capacities (i.e. absorptive, desorptive and connective capacity). Data from 271 European firms in business ecosystems was collected to test the paper’s hypotheses using regression analysis with bootstrapping. Results indicate that business ecosystemembeddedness does not in itself improve supply chain competence. Rather, therelationship is explained through (i) absorptive and desorptive capacity as directmediators; and (ii) connective capacity, which enhances supply chain competenceindirectly by improving external knowledge retention for absorptive and desorptive capacity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to demonstrate benefits of being embedded in business ecosystems other than in terms of innovation. Newly validated scales for business ecosystem embeddedness and connective capacity are provided.
AB - Interest in business ecosystems has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article focuses on the operational benefits of business ecosystems by investigating how embeddedness in business ecosystems influences supply chain competence.Specifically, it considers the mediating effect of external knowledge capacities (i.e. absorptive, desorptive and connective capacity). Data from 271 European firms in business ecosystems was collected to test the paper’s hypotheses using regression analysis with bootstrapping. Results indicate that business ecosystemembeddedness does not in itself improve supply chain competence. Rather, therelationship is explained through (i) absorptive and desorptive capacity as directmediators; and (ii) connective capacity, which enhances supply chain competenceindirectly by improving external knowledge retention for absorptive and desorptive capacity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to demonstrate benefits of being embedded in business ecosystems other than in terms of innovation. Newly validated scales for business ecosystem embeddedness and connective capacity are provided.
KW - Supply chain competence
KW - business ecosystem embeddedness
KW - absorptive capacity
KW - desorptive capacity
KW - connective capacity
U2 - 10.1080/09537287.2021.1951389
DO - 10.1080/09537287.2021.1951389
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 658
EP - 675
JO - Production Planning and Control
JF - Production Planning and Control
SN - 0953-7287
IS - 7
ER -