TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrial Digitization, the Use of Real-Time Information, and Operational Agility
T2 - Digital and Information Perspectives for Supply Chain Resilience
AU - Akhtar, Pervaiz
AU - Ghouri, Arsalan Mujahid
AU - Saha, Mahasweta
AU - Khan, Mustafa Rehman
AU - Shamim, Saqib
AU - Nallaluthan, Kesavan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
IEEE
PY - 2022/7/11
Y1 - 2022/7/11
N2 - Change is the permanent reality of the digital business world. Firms manage it by their ability and capability to cope with short-term and long-term deviations and disruptions. This article presents an examination of the supply chain resilience (SCR) of firms operating in the Malaysian Service Sector. The data for this article were collected from 157 managers of 59 firms operating in 7 subservice sectors. Following organizational information processing theory and reviewing the relevant literature for the conceptualization, we tested a framework that suggests that the use of real-time information (URTI) enhances SCR. We also found that the industrial digital environment has an important link with the URTI. The results indicate that the URTI is significantly associated with SCR and operational agility, which partially mediates the relationship between the URTI and SCR. We further discuss the theoretical, practical, and policy implications arising from this research.
AB - Change is the permanent reality of the digital business world. Firms manage it by their ability and capability to cope with short-term and long-term deviations and disruptions. This article presents an examination of the supply chain resilience (SCR) of firms operating in the Malaysian Service Sector. The data for this article were collected from 157 managers of 59 firms operating in 7 subservice sectors. Following organizational information processing theory and reviewing the relevant literature for the conceptualization, we tested a framework that suggests that the use of real-time information (URTI) enhances SCR. We also found that the industrial digital environment has an important link with the URTI. The results indicate that the URTI is significantly associated with SCR and operational agility, which partially mediates the relationship between the URTI and SCR. We further discuss the theoretical, practical, and policy implications arising from this research.
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Digital industry environment
KW - Information processing
KW - Information sharing
KW - operational agility
KW - Real-time systems
KW - Resilience
KW - supply chain resilience (SCR)
KW - Supply chains
KW - Uncertainty
KW - use of real-time information (URTI)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134224082&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2022.3182479
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2022.3182479
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85134224082
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
SN - 0018-9391
ER -