How Does Supply Chain Finance Help Build Resilience in SMEs?Based on Paradox Management Process
Supply chain finance plays a crucial role in enhancing the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs),and becomes a new driving force for high-quality economic development in China.Managing various continuously conflicting yet interdependent value propositions has become a key issue.This study,based on the framework of"paradox of supply chain financial services → paradox management → SME resilience building",employs a longitudinal case study approach to deeply analyze the practices of supply chain finance in MYbank.The findings reveal that:Under different supply chain financial service orientations,financial service providers need to develop effective paradox management capabilities through a mechanism of"micro-level segmentation—macro-level integration".This involves transforming paradox coping strategies into sustainable embedded paradox management capabilities by means of more granular segmentation and higher-level integration.This paper makes theoretical contributions to enriching the research perspective on enterprise resilience,expanding the theoretical perspective of supply chain finance,and revealing the internal mechanisms of paradox management,thereby inspiring relevant stakeholders to make better use of financial instruments to support the resilience building of SMEs.
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