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The Influence of Product Architecture and Supply Chain Concentration on Supply Chain Performance

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Supply chain is an important support for value creation, and product is the carrier for realizing the value. The coordination between product architecture design and supply chain management is the premise for enterprises to cope with rapid changes and meet the market demands. The view that product architecture and supply chain interact with each other has been confirmed by many scholars, but the influence mechanism between the two is still unclear. We collected data from 221 companies and drew the following conclusions through analysis. (1) product architecture has a significant impact on supply chain performance. The modularity of product architecture, the degree of standardization of interface, and the reuse of components have a significant positive impact on supply chain performance. (2) supply chain centralization can enhance the effect of product architecture on supply chain performance. When supply chain concentration is high, product architecture is easier to play its advantages, thereby improving supply chain performance.

The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019 YJS067).

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    Caili Duan, Xiaochun Chen & Yuanxun Gu

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Menggang Li

  2. Logistics, Business and Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Martin Dresner

  3. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Runtong Zhang

  4. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Guowei Hua

  5. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Xiaopu Shang

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Duan, C., Chen, X., Gu, Y. (2020). The Influence of Product Architecture and Supply Chain Concentration on Supply Chain Performance. In: Li, M., Dresner, M., Zhang, R., Hua, G., Shang, X. (eds) IEIS2019. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5660-9_33

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