ORGANIZATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE

This study was performed with three main goals in mind. The first goal was toexplore the relationship between three aspects of organizational infrastructure (topmanagement, employee collaboration, employee freedom) and also their relation withsupply chain performance, individually. At the beginning of second semester of 2013the quantitative data was collected from 120 managers who worked in Iraniancompanies. To accomplish the purpose of this study, the 78-items questionnaire wasadministered in one session as research instruments. The descriptive analysis, tow-tailedPearson’s product moment correlations coefficient, and Multiple liner regressionanalysis were carried out to examine the associations among predictors to predict supplychain performance. The analyzed results demonstrate that there are correlation, betweenthree components of organizational infrastructure and three various components of KMPs on supply chain performance. Moreover, it can conclude that these fourpredictors were closely related to supply chain performance and also observed thesignificant effect of KMPs in supply chain performance for the population tested weredistinguished.

Keywords:

organizational infrastructure , top management , employee collaboration , employee freedom , supply chain performance