Agricultural food supply chains of different grains such as wheat, rice, and corn include several processes from cropping and harvesting to distribution. Integrating these processes to reduce costs, in addition to providing sufficient supply, are of the major goals of agri-food supply chain management. | Designing and planning a rice supply chain a case study for Iran farmlands Uncertain Supply Chain Management 8 2020 267 272 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Uncertain Supply Chain Management homepage uscm Nonlinear impact of supply chain finance on the performance of seafood firms A case study from Vietnam Thu-Trang Thi Doana and Toan Ngoc Buia a Faculty of Finance and Banking Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City IUH Vietnam CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Supply chain finance has become an interesting research topic which attracts lots of attention Received October 25 2019 from scholars recently particularly after the global financial crisis. However only few studies Received in revised format have examined the causal relationship between supply chain finance and firm performance. December 26 2019 More specially there is a big research gap when almost none of existing research has analysed Accepted January 6 2020 Available online the nonlinear impact of supply chain finance on firm performance. With this aim this paper January 6 2020 succeeds in giving first empirical evidence on the U-shaped nonlinear relationship between Keywords supply chain finance and the performance of seafood firms in Vietnam. Specifically a bad GMM performance of supply chain finance the increase in cash conversion cycle - CCC causes a Nonlinear lower firm performance FP . Nevertheless if any decrease in firm performance reaches its Performance minimum CCC the restructuring of the firm will gradually improve it. In addition firm Supply chain finance performance is significantly influenced by controlled variables of firm-specific firm size Vietnam SIZE and capital structure CAP and macroeconomic economic growth EG factors. The findings are valuable for the management as well as scholars in bringing a more comprehensive perspective on the causal relationship between supply chain finance and firm performance. 2020 by the authors license Growing .
