Title: Measuring supply chain visibility in disruptive technology era: scale development and validation

Authors: Özden Özkanlısoy; Füsun Bulutlar

Addresses: Department of Logistics Management, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey ' Department of International Trade and Business, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract: The concept of supply chain visibility has enabled many critical contributions to supply chains such as coping with crises more easily, better assessing risks in disruptions, enhancing flexibility and performance, constituting more resilient supply chains and ensuring sustainability. Therefore, it is acknowledged as a dynamic capability that vitally affects the success of supply chain management in the disruptive technology era. The aim of this paper is to make a tremendous contribution to the relevant literature by developing and validating a measurement instrument in this field. It deals with the structure in a more comprehensive way and in line with its theoretical framework, unlike extant measurement tools. Accordingly, the paper was performed in six steps, and the sample size consisted of 48 firms for the pilot study and 484 firms for the main study. Therefore, a nine-item and single-factor scale has been developed and validated. The paper ends with an evaluation of the findings.

Keywords: supply chain management; SCM; supply chain visibility; SCV; scale development; validation; supply chain visibility scale; SCVS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISM.2023.133864

International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 2023 Vol.16 No.4, pp.385 - 418

Received: 19 Nov 2022
Accepted: 10 May 2023
Published online: 04 Oct 2023 *

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