Effects of Interorganizational Trust on the Influence of Cloud Computing on Supply Chain Performance
Vol. 4 Issue 1
This paper analyzes the effects of interorganizational trust on the influence of cloud computing on supply chain performance of fuel retail firms in Rivers State of Nigeria. Using the arguments of the social capital theory (SCT), a theoretical framework has been constructed that illuminates the role of interorganizational trust in cloud computing and how this can procreate imperious supply chain performance. A survey questionnaire was administered on 202 management staff of 55 retail petroleum marketing firms in Rivers State of Nigeria, and stepwise regression was used to test the hypothesis. The results suggests that cloud computing requires the moderating support of inter-organization trust to have a strong and significant influence on supply chain performance. The results therefore reinforce the across-the-board explanation presaged by germane theoretical framework as social capital theory (SCT), and recommends that managers should be prepared to develop sound interorganizational trust practices capable of reinforcing cloud computing that will dramatically improve the firms’ supply chain performance. Nonetheless, further study and longitudinal anatomy should be conducted in a distributed industrial and geographical contexture to authenticate these findings.
