CAHEAK Company is a manufacturer of electronic products that aims to improve its sustainability and reduce waste by implementing a closed-loop supply chain. To achieve this goal, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) suggested that the company should adopt digitalization in its supply chain. While most board members agreed with this recommendation, a few raised concerns that digitalization alone would not guarantee an efficient closed-loop supply chain. As a result, the board decided to conduct research to better understand how digitalization can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of a closed-loop supply chain.

The board has contracted you as a research consultant to conduct a quantitative survey to investigate the relationship between digitalization and efficient closed-loop supply chains. Your research should explain "when" and "how" digitalization leads to efficient closed loop supply supply. After conducting an extensive review of the literature, you identified traceability as a potential mediating variable and network centrality as a potential moderating variable.

Questions

1.Propose a title for this research

2.Discuss the research motivation of your proposed study.

3.What specific research questions can be addressed by this research

4.Can you propose a research model for this study?

5.What theories could be used to guide this research.

6.Propose 3 hypotheses for the study.

7.Discuss how you will design your research questionnaire?

8. Discuss the sample frame and sampling technique, and the target respondents that will be used for the study (NB: Provide appropriate justifications).

9. Discuss how you will test your hypotheses (NB:What analytical approach will you use).