Abstract With increasing supply chain complexity, companies strive to enhance the visibility in their supply chains, but with a spanning network across national borders, it is essential to consider dissimilar cultural behavior. Thus, this paper aims to analyze the role of dissimilar national-cultural behaviors on supply chain visibility (SCV), and to evaluate how companies can adapt to these behavioral characteristics to increase SCV internationally. The methodology of the paper is twofold. First, the paper engages in a systematic literature review (SLR) evaluating behavioral characteristics for SCV enhancement. Because of a multi-interpretable nature of existing literature, the study then follows a qualitative approach, including 49 transcribed semi-structured interviews with supply chain experts from 30 companies in Germany, Japan, and the USA. The findings indicate that SCV-enhancing behaviors differ based on cultural characteristics. However, the single consideration of these characteristics possesses an interpretable nature resulting in a paradoxical situation. By this, the findings indicate that similar cultural dimensional characteristics can be dissimilar based on the influence of other dimensional factors. Overall, this study provides an indication of the importance of national culture for SCV, and the relevance of cultural adaption to enhancing SCV. Through this, it opens the door for further research in this field. The three countries selected can be used as a proxy to measure similar cultures based on Hofstede's cultural dimension model (2001), and thus the contribution strives for analytical generalizability beyond the three countries.

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民族文化对供应链可见性的作用：来自德国、日本和美国的教训

摘要 随着供应链复杂性的增加，公司努力提高其供应链的知名度，但由于网络跨越国界，因此必须考虑不同的文化行为。因此，本文旨在分析不同的民族文化行为对供应链可见性 (SCV) 的作用，并评估公司如何适应这些行为特征以在国际上提高 SCV。论文的方法论是双重的。首先，本文进行了系统文献综述 (SLR)，评估 SCV 增强的行为特征。由于现有文献的多重可解释性，该研究随后采用定性方法，包括对来自德国、日本和美国 30 家公司的供应链专家的 49 次转录的半结构化访谈。研究结果表明，SCV 增强行为因文化特征而异。然而，对这些特征的单一考虑具有可解释性，从而导致矛盾的情况。由此，研究结果表明，基于其他维度因素的影响，相似的文化维度特征可能会有所不同。总的来说，这项研究表明了民族文化对 SCV 的重要性，以及文化适应与增强 SCV 的相关性。通过这一点，它为该领域的进一步研究打开了大门。所选的三个国家可用作衡量基于 Hofstede 的文化维度模型（2001 年）的相似文化的代理，因此该贡献力求在三个国家之外进行分析推广。