Supply chain security practices in the food industry: Do firms operating globally and domestically differ?

摘要

Purpose - This paper compares firms purchasing and/or selling food products internationally tornthose with domestic supply chains in order to determine if international firms: place greaterrnmanagerial importance on security; and are more likely to engage supply chain partners inrnsecurity-related verification and information exchange. The purpose of this paper is to explore the linkrnbetween security initiatives and firm performance in terms of security outcomes, product quality, andrncustomer service.rnDesign/methodology/approach - A series of oneway ANOVA tests are used to assess therndifferences between firms with international and domestic supply chains. Additionally, clusterrnanalysis is conducted to group firms based on their performance levels.rnFindings - Initial results indicate respondents with international supply chains perceive that theirrnfirms place more importance on security and are more likely to assess the security procedures ofrnsupply chain partners. Results further indicate that, in general, respondents in international firmsrnperceive better security performance is achieved in terms of the ability to detect and recover fromrnsecurity incidents. Once firms are grouped by performance, respondents in the high-performancerncluster, represented predominantly by international firms, perceived significantly higher performancernin the areas examined.rnOriginality/value - This paper is the first to compare, the differences in security measuresrnemployed by firms maintaining internationally oriented as opposed to domestically oriented supplyrnchains and also relates the implementation of supply chain security measures to security and firmrnperformance.