Supplier Involvement in New Product Development

The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066727.013.29 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yuan Wang ◽

Sachin B. Modi ◽

Saurabh Mishra

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

New Product Development ◽

Operations Management ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

New Product ◽

Future Research ◽

Moderating Factors ◽

Supplier Involvement ◽

Performance Dimensions ◽

Significant Attention

Supplier involvement in new product development (NPD) has received significant attention in the operations management literature. Based on a thorough meta-analysis of correlations for papers published in operations management journals from 1989 to 2014, this study assesses the performance implications of supplier involvement in NPD. The analysis at the aggregate level indicates a significant positive relationship between supplier involvement and overall NPD performance. However, the analysis also indicates that this relationship may be contingent on the presence of various moderating factors. Further, the detailed analysis suggests that it is important to understand that certain supplier involvement dimensions do not simultaneously affect all performance dimensions. This study highlights the dimensions of supplier involvement with the greatest impact, emphasizes the importance of considering moderating factors in future investigations, and identifies areas of future research on the topic.

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Impacts of strategic orientations on new product development and firm performances

European Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1108/ejim-05-2018-0092 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 257-280

Author(s):

Wassim J. Aloulou

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

New Product Development ◽

New Product ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Future Research ◽

Business Practices ◽

Industrial Firms ◽

Content Type ◽

Strategic Orientations ◽

Industrial Sectors

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between strategic orientations as well as the role played by them to impact the performance of industrial firms.Design/methodology/approachThe paper formulates some hypotheses from the literature review. These hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling with data collected from 292 randomly selected firms operating in several industrial sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.FindingsThe findings of this study showed the importance of these strategic orientations in enhancing the performance of Saudi industrial firms and emphasized the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation in the relationships of market orientation and technology orientation to new product development performance and firm performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study discusses the findings and advances certain limitations and research and managerial implications for future research avenues. It proposes some recommendations to help Saudi firms to choose more than one orientation simultaneously and adopt an appropriate configuration of orientations. Future research has to consider the interplay between these strategic orientations and the impacts of environmental turbulence in terms of market and technology turbulence on strategic orientations – performance relationship.Practical implicationsThe study suggests that managers of Saudi industrial firms should utilize a mix of aspects from several strategic orientations such as market and technology through entrepreneurial capabilities and resources that enhance higher levels of performance.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship and strategic management by showing the reliability of scales used and the confirmatory of the factor structure. It also contributes to business practices by showing the importance for Saudi firms to combine different strategic orientations and provide more attention to the interplay of these orientations in order to perform better in such a transitional context.

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