Government Support and Market Proximity: Exploring Their Relationship with Supply Chain Agility and Financial performance

The current paper presents a structural equation model with four variables (Government, Infrastructure, Proximity to market, and supply chain Agility) affecting the Financial performance of a company. Six hypotheses or relationships among variables are proposed, supposing that Government and market...

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Autores: Jorge L Garcia, jose mejia, Aide Maldonado-Macías, Giner Alor-Hernández, Liliana Avelar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
OAI Identifier:oai:uacj.mx:oai:cathi.uacj.mx:20.500.11961ir-4034
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072441
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:government support
market proximity
agility
supply chain
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Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Business and economics
Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Industrial engineering and economy::Industrial organisation, administration and economics
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Sumario:The current paper presents a structural equation model with four variables (Government, Infrastructure, Proximity to market, and supply chain Agility) affecting the Financial performance of a company. Six hypotheses or relationships among variables are proposed, supposing that Government and market Proximity are key elements to achieve a greater Agility in supply chains, considering the regional Infrastructure to determine the impact on Financial performance in manufacturing companies. The model is validated with data from a survey applied to 225 persons in 65 manufacturing companies located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The model is evaluated using partial least squares, and the findings indicate that there is a direct and positive effect from the Government on regional Infrastructure with a rate of 0.436. When the Government supports the availability of land, energy resources, transportation, telecommunications, mobile telephones, and other services, a positive change is achieved in the Infrastructure and supply chain Agility.