the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of information technology and knowledge management on the supply chain agility in alborz darou and alborz distribution company. the statistical population of this study includes employees of alborz darou and alborz distribution company. the population consists of 426 members. a sample of 205 employees was selected through random stratified ...

Organizations have increasingly invested money in information technology (IT) in order to improve their agility. It is generally believed that organizations with greater IT investment tend to be more agile to response to environmental changes. However, the issue of whether IT is an enabler or impeder of organizational agility still remains unresolved. Drawing upon resource-based view theory and...

The main purpose of this research was to build on Fisher’s (1997) seminal article. First, it expands on the Fisher framework by empirically establishing the link between the firm’s environmental characteristics and the firm’s level of supply chain fit (SCF). The results indicate a negative relationship between environmental uncertainty and SCF indicating that, as the level of environmental unce...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

The right performance of a supply chain depends on the pattern of relationships among firms. Although there is not a general consensus among researchers yet, many studies point that scale-free topologies, where few highly related firms are combined with many low-related firms, assure the highest efficiency of a supply chain. This paper studies the network topology that leads to the highest agil...

Researchers and practitioners regard information technology (IT) as a competitive tool. However, current knowledge on IT capability mechanisms that affect firm performance remains unclear. Based on the dynamic capabilities perspective and the view of a hierarchy of capabilities, this article proposes a model to examine how IT capabilities (i.e., flexible IT infrastructure and IT assimilation) a...

The need for Supply Chain efficiency, agility and innovation has never been greater. When the current economic pressures and the ever growing global network of suppliers are taken into account, supplier visibility and risk mitigation are quickly added to the ongoing needs of improved efficiency, agility and innovation. Supply chains are also sources of competitive advantage, so more tools are n...