Due to environmental changes such as the development of information and communication technology and transportation, the business environment of companies is not limited to their own country, but is expanding into countries around the world to be comp...
Due to environmental changes such as the development of information and communication technology and transportation, the business environment of companies is not limited to their own country, but is expanding into countries around the world to be competitive in the global environment. As corporate business environments occur simultaneously in countries around the world, companies have established factories or corporations in countries around the world, taking into account various factors such as production costs, logistics costs, lead times, political environments, and natural environments. Due to changes in the corporate environment, dependence on countries around the world has increased compared to the past, and the supply chain has expanded around the world, naturally exposing us to various risks.
Companies face risks such as supply risk, demand risk, operational risk, natural disasters such as floods, typhoons, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, SARS, MERS, COVID-19, coups, wars, inflation, interest rate fluctuations, rising oil prices, and strengthening social standards. As risk factors occur frequently, companies emphasize the importance of managing risks arising from the supply chain to solve economic problems caused by supply chain disruption, as well as ensuring that the supply chain can recover quickly when exposed to external shocks. We are working to improve corporate performance by increasing resilience.
This study conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of supply chain risk factors on resilience strengthening strategies and supply chain performance targeting companies with domestic supply chains, and presented implications for companies' resilience strengthening strategies. To verify the research hypothesis, a survey was conducted targeting employees working at companies with supply chains, and based on the surveyed data, reliability analysis, feasibility analysis, and path analysis were performed using SPSS 28.0 and AMOS 28.0. It was carried out.
The analysis results are summarized as follows. First, supply risk, natural environment risk, and social risk factors were found to have a positive influence on both the agility enhancement strategy and the robustness enhancement strategy. Therefore, it was found to be significant in strengthening agility and robustness, which are strategies for strengthening resilience, by managing risk factors by utilizing strategies such as hedging strategy, outsourcing strategy, various types of transportation, IOT, cloud technology, and blockchain. Demand risk and political/institutional risk were found to have a negative impact on the agility strategy and robustness strategy. Therefore, managing risk factors by utilizing strategies such as price discrimination, collaboration with partner companies, increasing accuracy through the use of machine learning, geographical diversification strategy, dispersion of production bases, and early warning system is a strategy for strengthening resilience, such as agility and robustness. Strengthening was found to be limited. Operational risk and economic risk were found to have no influence on strategies to enhance agility and robustness. Utilize strategies such as payment deferral strategy, improved visibility and transparency, leverage management in relation to RFID, inflation, interest rate fluctuation, exchange rate fluctuation, and oil price increase, currency option purchase, financial integration, use of sourcing strategy, and provision of currency adjustment contract incentives. It is possible to manage risks, but no attention is paid to strengthening agility and robustness.
Second, agility was found to have a positive effect on financial performance. It has been shown that companies can have a positive effect on their financial performance by preparing for risk factors by using strategies such as adjusting customer preference level, reliability adjustment, reactivity adjustment, dynamic theory, and contingency theory. On the other hand, robustness was found to have a negative effect on financial performance. In order to maintain the original level when the supply chain is shocked, a company prepares for risk factors by utilizing strategies such as utilizing technical and organizational elements using organizational information processing theory and providing infrastructure through digitalization. It appeared to have a fairly limited effect.
Third, in the case of non-financial performance, both agility and robustness were found to be insignificant.
Based on these results, the implications and limitations of this study can be derived as follows.
It has academic implications by logically presenting the relationship between resilience strengthening strategies and corporate performance through the use of variables such as political and institutional risk, economic risk, natural environment risk, and social risk, and recognizes the importance of risk factors by subdividing risk factors. There are practical implications for improving corporate performance by utilizing agility and robustness strengthening strategies when risks occur.
The limitations of this study include the fact that the company's industry and position are concentrated, the length of service is relatively short, and the inability to utilize various analysis techniques such as IPA analysis and AHP analysis.
Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research that can complement the limitations in future research.