Impacts of risk transmission of SRDI enterprises on supply chain resilience

Purpose Enterprises with the characteristics of “Specialized, Refinement, Differential and Innovation (SRDI)” in China play an important role in shaping the resilience of supply chains and developing an independent and controllable national industrial chain. However, research on how SRDI enterprises can build supply chain resilience in the context of risk transmission is still lagging behind. This paper aims to fill this gap and clarify the mechanism through internal and external factor dimensions when considering risk transmission of SRDI enterprises on supply chain resilience, and provide some implications for small and medium-sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach Based on dynamic capability theory and stakeholder theory, this paper constructs a model of the relationship between supply chain risk transmission and supply chain resilience with SRDI enterprises as the research object. Hypothesis testing is carried out by empirically analyzing the survey data of 120 SRDI enterprises in the Chinese new energy vehicle industry. Findings This paper found that supply chain risk transmission has a significant positive effect on supplier-specialized collaboration and customer collaborative matching. Meanwhile, supplier specialized collaboration and customer collaborative matching significantly and positively affect supply chain resilience, while they respectively play a mediating role in the relationship between supply chain risk transmission and supply chain resilience. In addition, internal refined integration significantly promotes supplier specialized collaboration and customer collaborative matching, which in turn indirectly affects supply chain resilience. Originality/value The research findings reveal the intrinsic mechanism of how SRDI enterprises use internal refined integration and external-specialized collaboration to establish supply chain resilience under the supply chain risk transmission environment, which will have certain theoretical and practical significance to further enhance the supply chain resilience of SRDI enterprises.