Empirically investigating the impact of supply effort management, logistics capabilities and supply chain management strategies on firm performance

The primary objective of this research paper is to empirically probe the various aspects and variables that have been already addressed in the previous literature related to supply effort management, logistics capabilities, supply chain management strategies and firm performance. Further, this research aims to develop a measurement framework and pragmatically prove the framework through a measurement model. First, a factor structure for various constructs is made and the initial validity is determined from practicing managers and academicians. This research employs survey method and the data collected from 358 supply chain professionals working in manufacturing firms in India. A measurement model is developed and proved with various tests of reliability and validity. Finally, four major latent constructs were formulated, namely, supply effort management, logistics capabilities, supply chain management strategies and firm performance. The factor scores of these latent variables were used for further analysis. A seven-stage approach was followed in the analysis of data. Firm performance was regressed against supply effort management, logistics capabilities, and supply chain management strategies. The results indicate that the predictive variable has positive and significant effect on firm performance and they do not have any multi-collinearity effects among them.