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The Effect of a Third-Party Facilitator on Supply Chain Collaboration: Evidence from a Dutch Supply Chain Network

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dc.contributor.authorAvgerinos, Emmanouil
dc.contributor.authorGuha, Reeju
dc.contributor.authorSlabbers, Tom
dc.contributor.authorFragkos, Ioannis
dc.contributor.authorZuidwijk, Rob
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-04T12:34:42Z
dc.date.available2025-03-04T12:34:42Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.description.abstractCollaboration among supply chain actors leads to improved market access, and reduced logistics costs. In practice, however, collaboration initiatives are challenging to implement, due to barriers such as the sharing of sensitive information, coordination complexity, and the lack of operational visibility. The impact of such barriers may be mitigated by a third-party facilitator – an organization that facilitates coordination among actors, and safeguards sensitive information. We assess the impact of such a facilitator on supply chain collaboration. We further investigate whether the facilitator may induce a positive, second-order effect on environmental impact and logistics costs through improving collaboration. We test our hypotheses using survey interviews on member organizations of Connekt, a logistics facilitator. Our results suggest that the facilitator increases the number of collaborations, which leads to reduction in supply chain costs and a positive environmental impact. Lastly, we demonstrate that larger firms further improve collaborations, in the presence of the facilitator.
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dc.identifier.citationGuha, Reeju and Slabbers, Tom and Fragkos, Ioannis and Avgerinos, Emmanouil and Zuidwijk, Rob A., The Effect of a Third-Party Facilitator on Supply Chain Collaboration: Evidence from a Dutch Supply Chain Network (November 21, 2022). SSRN Electronic Journal, 0 [10.2139/ssrn.4282812], Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4282812 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4282812
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4282812
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3618
dc.language.isoen
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dc.relation.departmentOperations & Business Analytics
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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dc.subject.keywordSupply chain collaboration and costs
dc.subject.keywordThird party facilitator
dc.subject.keywordEnvironmental impact
dc.subject.keywordSurvey interviews
dc.subject.keywordMultiple case studies
dc.titleThe Effect of a Third-Party Facilitator on Supply Chain Collaboration: Evidence from a Dutch Supply Chain Network
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