The Effect of Supply Chain Agility Based on Supplier Innovation‎ and Environmental Uncertainty

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Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

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Today, the continuity of companies is directly related to the ability of companies to enhance competitiveness which the supply ‎chain agility ‎plays an important role in this regard. This study was conducted by ‎the purpose of determining the effect of supplier ‎innovation and environmental uncertainty on supply ‎chain agility with the mediating role of information ‎sharing, strategic resourcing, supply chain orientation and ‎market orientation in Parts suppliers of Sazeh Gostar ‎Saipa Company. The present research is applied in terms of its purpose and is descriptive-survey in terms of method, which the statistical population consisted of 515 ‎managers of Parts suppliers of Sazeh Gostar Saipa ‎Company. Accordingly, the Cochran formula was used to determine ‎the number of samples, a total of 228 ‎managers participated in this study. Standard ‎questionnaires were used to sample. Correlation test ‎results showed that there is a significant positive ‎relationship between the research variables (p<0.01). Also, ‎the results of structural equation modeling showed that ‎the model presented in this study has a suitable fit and the ‎set of factors that influenced the supply ‎chain agility ‎in this model can explain 98% of the changes ‎in supply chain agility (R2=0.98).‎

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