Third, this research represents an early empirical examination of the relationship
between SCM practices and firm-level antecedents; namely, corporate entrepreneurship
characteristics, social capital explanations, and resource-based view. Future research
should explore the effect of other facets, such as a firm’s ability to form new social
capital or develop unique corporate entrepreneurship through the advice of partners,
on SCM practices. Furthermore, additional studies should include a broader businessto-business
relationship (e.g. among distributors, competitors, customer’s customers,
and supplier’s suppliers) and the social networks’ structure (e.g. density, size, strength
of the relationship). These aspects could offer insightful details and greater
methodological rigor to the study of firm’s SCM practices