Purpose: The supply chain leadership has absorbed the attention of many of the managers and researchers in production fields during the two past decades. Recently, new concepts such as supply chain leadership, work culture and institualization have been shown and this indicates the classic supply chain theories were transformed. The aim of this research is to state the proper style of supply chain leadership in chain stores and its functions. Design/Methodology/ approaches: The conceptual model has been evaluated by the opinions of managers and experts of organizations that are engaged with the supply chain management concept. The reliability of the questionnaire has been evaluated through the statistical method(Alpha Cronbach). The validity of measuring instrument is evaluated by statistical method such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA-CFA). Finding: findings say that the transformational leadership is the best leadership style in SHAHRVAND chain stores' supply chain. Supply chain leadership has a positive and significant impact on supply chain policies and strategies, work culture and supply chain institualization and infrastructure dimensions. Also, the results reveal that leaders of Shahrvand Chain Stores must make any efforts in order to create the culture of knowledge acquisitions and competitiveness through followers and stakeholders. Limitations: since the model has been tested only in a company’s supply chain, there should be more discreet to generalize in the supply chain of the other organizations. In other word because of the nature of case study, external validity of the model is not defendable. Originality/value: developing concepts such as leadership, institualization and work culture in context of the supply chain management is based on the conditions of chain stores. Meanwhile the casual relations among concepts have been evaluated.
کلید واژگان :Supply chain management (SCM) % Supply chain leadership % European Foundation of quality management (EFQM) % Chain Stores % Structured Equations Model (SEM) % Shahrvand Chain Stores
ارزش ریالی : 300000 ریال
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