The Effects of Value Chain Management Practices on Garment Manufacturer’s Performance in The Mediating Role of Information Sharing: In the Case of Garment Exporters in Addis Ababa - Bole Lemi Industry Park
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of value chain management practice on garment manufacturers’ performance mediated by information sharing. The study employed a quantitative research approach and an explanatory research design and used both primary and secondary data. Measures of the study were of good quality after assuring reliability and validity. Data were collected from garment exporting companies through straight forward simple random technique 363 respondents were selected. the findings were tested using various statistical techniques. The result of the study is supplier relationships, internal value chain activities, and customer relationships have appositive significant impact on the performance of garment manufacturing industries statistical. It also found that information sharing, a mediating variable, directly impacts organizational performance with a beta value of 0.317 and a positive effect with an explained variance of 31.7%. The study also assessed the indirect effects of value chain management methods on organizational performance through mediator variable, and found positive indirect impacts on organizational performance. Ultimately the total impacts of value chain management practices and information sharing on organizational performance were still significant in the presence of information sharing, suggesting that information sharing plays a partial mediation role. Furthermore, it would appear that managers should focus on nurturing information sharing and principles of value chain management practices in addition to monitoring different measures of their performance.
Key words: supplier relationship, customer relationship, internal value chain activities, information sharing, organizational performance