Managing financially distressed suppliers: An exploratory study


Bode, Christoph ; Hübner, Denis ; Wagner, Stephan M.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12036
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jscm.12...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2014
The title of a journal, publication series: Journal of Supply Chain Management
Volume: 50
Issue number: 4
Page range: 24-43
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ [u.a.]
Publishing house: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 1523-2409 , 1745-493X , 1055-6001
Publication language: English
Institution: Business School > Stiftungslehrstuhl für Procurement (Bode 2014-)
Subject: 650 Management
Keywords (English): supply chain risk , supplier financial distress , supplier default , organizational learning and knowledge , qualitative data analysis , case studies
Abstract: The early anticipation and proactive management of financially distressed suppliers have become crucial for buying firms to protect themselves against supplier default risk. To this end, firms need to be able to read the early warning signals from suppliers that are running into financial distress, to take appropriate remedial actions, and to gather such experiences in repositories of organizational knowledge for future actions. The objective of this study is to explore how and why firms differ in these behaviors and capabilities. We use the organizational information-processing perspective as a guiding theoretical framework and analyze qualitative data obtained from interviews conducted with 14 global case study manufacturing firms. By comparing these firms', behaviors in terms of scanning and interpreting warning signals, reacting to distressed or defaulting suppliers, and learning from such experiences, we are able to isolate several risk management archetypes and develop four sets of propositions that describe the occurrence of these archetypes.

Dieser Datensatz wurde nicht während einer Tätigkeit an der Universität Mannheim veröffentlicht, dies ist eine Externe Publikation.




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