Publications

Authors:

Cozzolino, Alessandra; Calabrese, Mario; Bosco, Gerardo; Signori, Paola; Massaroni, Enrico

Title:

Horizontal network collaboration by entrepreneurial ventures: a supply chain finance perspective

Year:

2023

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

ISSN of journal:

1462-6004

N° Volume:

30

Number or Folder:

3

Page numbers:

523-545

Keyword:

small and medium enterprises; SME; supply chain finance; SCF; horizontal network collaboration; Entrepreneurial ventures; action research

Short description of contents:

Purpose – The present paper aims at understanding how horizontal network collaborations between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can be designed and implemented to take advantage of a supply chain finance (SCF) perspective. Design/methodology/approach – This study presents an SCF literature background identifying four literature gaps, and in response to them it adopts an action research approach. The empirical analysis is developed on a network-case study: a horizontal collaboration project between small businesses of the Italian wine industry and their supply chains. Findings – SMEs can play an active role in developing – in terms of design and implementation – their collaborative networks by taking advantage of an SCF perspective for themselves, and their customers, based on the reorganization of relationships interface processes. Taking this perspective can be a concrete and crucial way to sustain the development of SMEs and their supply chains in an actual competitive context. Research limitations/implications – The paper identifies the theoretical gaps in the literature, suggests new research areas that deserve to be more deeply investigated and connects case-related results to the key concepts. The empirical part presents a real case application that proposes a complete roadmap for managers and practitioners who wish to experience similar projects. Practical implications – This network-case study storyline, presenting an overview of ten years of meetings, with related purposes, is suggesting a roadmap for design and implementation of horizontal network as managerial implications. These kinds of active research projects, with a collaborative mixed team of academics and practitioners, and involving a multilayer group of participants, are positive examples for closing the bridge between companies and academia, which enhance this network of small businesses active in trying to improve their competitiveness working together. Originality/value – The value of the paper is to embrace a supply chain-oriented perspective for an SME, independent of the financial system and based on inventory flow management. Very little literature focuses on inventory-based research within the SCF framework, designed for real implementation in horizontal network collaboration by entrepreneurial ventures.

Note:

AJG 2 (Article publication date: 20 April 2023 - Issue publication date: 19 May 2023)

Web page:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JSBED-08-2022-0341/full/html

Product ID:

133364

Handle IRIS:

11562/1092208

Last Modified:

November 22, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Cozzolino, Alessandra; Calabrese, Mario; Bosco, Gerardo; Signori, Paola; Massaroni, Enrico, Horizontal network collaboration by entrepreneurial ventures: a supply chain finance perspective «JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT» , vol. 30 , n. 3 , 2023 , pp. 523-545

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