The advent of the digital economy era has provided significant opportunities to establish new supply chain networks. However, many manufacturing enterprises struggle to effectively allocate their digital and non-digital supply chain resources. This study explores the interplay between digital supply chain capabilities (DSCCs) and traditional supply chain capabilities (TSCCs) and analyzes combinations of these supply chain capabilities that can enhance enterprise competitive performance (ECP). Based on a qualitative comparative analysis of 221 cases of manufacturing enterprises, the study reveals three capability configurations leading to high ECP: non-digital, TSCCs-centered, and DSCCs- and TSCCs-balanced. The findings indicate that for most firms, digitalization is an important factor, and they achieve high ECP with the DSCCs- and TSCCs-balanced capability configuration; however, some small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular industries can also enhance ECP without digitalization when their TSCCs are high.
We introduce a comprehensive framework to investigate the influence of perceived overqualification (POQ) on workplace incivility. Building upon Kahn’s theoretical framework for engagement, our study proposes that POQ hinders the fulfillment of three psychological conditions—specifically, psychological meaningfulness, psychological safety, and emotional exhaustion—thereby impacting the emergence of instigated incivility in the workplace. Moreover, we hypothesize varying contributions of these psychological conditions in elucidating the relationship between POQ and instigated incivility. Notably, psychological menaingfulness and emotional exhaustion are likely to provide more substantial explanations for POQ-incivility relation. Additionally, we posit that ethical leadership plays a pivotal role in mitigating the detrimental effects of POQ on instigated incivility. Through the implementation of two multi-wave and multi-level field studies, along with an experiment, our hypotheses were supported. This research not only advances the theoretical comprehension of POQ but also carries substantial implications for addressing both POQ and workplace incivility.
This study investigates how novel product visions emerge as team members share and fuse their insights. Existing studies contrast the merits of two possible paths. On the one hand, a vision is mainly conceived by the creative lead, putting forward a direction and then buying-in ownership of the other team members. On the other hand, a vision emerges as a balanced collaborative effort where all team members contribute. Through the sensemaking theoretical lens, we expand this discussion by proposing that regardless of who the main driver of innovation is, what is important in vision creation is the individual’s ability of “letting go” of early insights, namely sense-breaking. We analyze the vision creation dynamics of 26 top management teams. We capture how the verbal descriptions of a vision change from individual insights to a shared concept. We show how “letting go” of earlier creations is as important as adding new ones.