Supply Chain Agility (Swafford, Ghosh & Murthy)
Supply ChainReliability: alpha 0.863 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of supply chain agility — the capability to rapidly respond to short-term changes in demand, supply, and the business environment.
Sample item(s)
“Our supply chain quickly responds to changes in customer demand”
“Our supply chain quickly adjusts to disruptions”
“Our supply chain is flexible enough to accommodate changes in product mix”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.86. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Swafford, P. M., Ghosh, S., & Murthy, N. (2006): The antecedents of supply chain agility of a firm: Scale development and model testing. Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 170–188.
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