New Product Development in an Emerging Economy: Analysing the Role of Supplier Involvement Practices by Using Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique

Table 3

The reliability of supplier involvement practices and NPD project performance.

Concepts	Variables		Corrected item-total correlation	Cronbach’s alpha
Supplier involvement practices	𝐶1	Participation of key suppliers	0.638	0.882
	𝐶2	Direct communication with key suppliers	0.769
	𝐶3	Shared design knowledge with key suppliers	0.826
	𝐶4	Common linked information systems (EDI, CAD/CAM)	0.585
	𝐶5	Shared education and training programs with key suppliers	0.679
	𝐶6	Co-location of project personnel and key suppliers	0.666
NPD project performance	𝐸1	Conformance to quality objectives set	0.874	0.928
	𝐸2	Conformance to design objectives set	0.849
	𝐸3	Conformance to cost objectives set	0.807
	𝐸4	Conformance to “time-to-market” targets set	0.807