Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement
Purpose: In the era of digital transformation, enhancing supply chain visibility through digital technologies is critical, yet there is limited consensus on their application across strategic, tactical, and operational levels within focal organization. This study investigates how digital technologi...
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Purpose: In the era of digital transformation, enhancing supply chain visibility through digital technologies is critical, yet there is limited consensus on their application across strategic, tactical, and operational levels within focal organization. This study investigates how digital technologies enhance supply chain visibility by enabling focal firms to acquire and exploit information from key stakeholders: suppliers, customers, and internal teams.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Grounded in the resource-based view theory and employing structural equation modeling, the study analyzes the relationships between different levels of digital technology application and three dimensions of supply chain visibility: supplier, customer, and internal visibility.
Findings: The findings reveal that strategic and tactical applications of digital technologies significantly enhance all three dimensions of supply chain visibility, while operational applications show no significant effect.
Implications/Originality/Value: Findings advance the supply chain management literature by empirically validating the differential impacts of tactical and strategic digital technology applications on three distinct dimensions of supply chain visibility, conceptualized herein for the first time. Addressing recent calls for deeper inquiry into digital technology and supply chain management integration, it offers theoretical grounding via the Resource-Based View and practical guidance for manufacturing firms in emerging economies to enhance visibility and performance through targeted digital investments.
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| spelling | doaj-art-21023880f5cc433594af4faa9dea4b222025-08-20T03:04:34ZengCSRC PublishingSustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies2708-25042708-21722025-03-017110.26710/sbsee.v7i1.3310Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility EnhancementLiaqut Ali0Muhammad Zia Ul Haq1Air University Islamabad, PakistanAir University Islamabad, Pakistan Purpose: In the era of digital transformation, enhancing supply chain visibility through digital technologies is critical, yet there is limited consensus on their application across strategic, tactical, and operational levels within focal organization. This study investigates how digital technologies enhance supply chain visibility by enabling focal firms to acquire and exploit information from key stakeholders: suppliers, customers, and internal teams. Design/Methodology/Approach: Grounded in the resource-based view theory and employing structural equation modeling, the study analyzes the relationships between different levels of digital technology application and three dimensions of supply chain visibility: supplier, customer, and internal visibility. Findings: The findings reveal that strategic and tactical applications of digital technologies significantly enhance all three dimensions of supply chain visibility, while operational applications show no significant effect. Implications/Originality/Value: Findings advance the supply chain management literature by empirically validating the differential impacts of tactical and strategic digital technology applications on three distinct dimensions of supply chain visibility, conceptualized herein for the first time. Addressing recent calls for deeper inquiry into digital technology and supply chain management integration, it offers theoretical grounding via the Resource-Based View and practical guidance for manufacturing firms in emerging economies to enhance visibility and performance through targeted digital investments. https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/sbsee/article/view/3310Digital TechnologyManufacturing FirmsStrategic ResourceSupply Chain Visibility |
| spellingShingle | Liaqut Ali Muhammad Zia Ul Haq Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies Digital Technology Manufacturing Firms Strategic Resource Supply Chain Visibility |
| title | Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement |
| title_full | Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement |
| title_fullStr | Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement |
| title_short | Digital Technologies as Strategic Resources: A Resource-Based Framework for Supply Chain Visibility Enhancement |
| title_sort | digital technologies as strategic resources a resource based framework for supply chain visibility enhancement |
| topic | Digital Technology Manufacturing Firms Strategic Resource Supply Chain Visibility |
| url | https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/sbsee/article/view/3310 |
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