Utilizing social media in a supply chain B2B setting: A knowledge perspective

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2021-08-24
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Kalra, Ashish
Chen, Haozhe
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Daugherty, Patricia
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Chen, Haozhe
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Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is an integrated program of study concerned with the efficient flow of materials, products, and information within and among organizations. It involves the integration of business processes across organizations, from material sources and suppliers through manufacturing, and processing to the final customer. The program provides you with the core knowledge related to a wide variety of supply chain activities, including demand planning, purchasing, transportation management, warehouse management, inventory control, material handling, product and service support, information technology, and strategic supply chain management.
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Marketing
Marketing is a ubiquitous, dynamic, and exciting discipline that offers a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities. You’ll learn from world-class faculty and a curriculum that focuses on preparing you to be a critical thinker and creative problem-solver who has strong communication skills.
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While social media has become an integral part of modern-day life, it is a largely overlooked topic in supply chain business-to-business setting. This study utilizes dyadic survey data collected from both supplier account managers and their customers to explore social media's impacts in the digitalized supply chain context. Drawing upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, the study proposes and tests a conceptual model. Results indicate that supplier account manager's social media use can increase his or her product and competitor knowledge, which can positively influence customer outcome. Further, the moderation test suggests that when perceived customer demandingness is high, the relationship between social media use and knowledge will be stronger. This study draws much-needed attention to social media as an emerging digital supply chain management too.

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This article is published as Agnihotri, Raj, Kalra, Ashish, Chen, Haozhe, and Daugherty, Patricia J.. 2021. " Utilizing social media in a supply chain B2B setting: A knowledge perspective." Journal of Business Logistics Special Issue (2021);doi: 10.1111/jbl.12289.

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