The influences of supplier attitude toward stockpiling and government aiding to supplier intention to hoard after natural disaster.

The products of agriculture are strongly influenced by environment and climate change, especially in Taiwan with lots of natural disasters like Typhoon and Earthquake. The agriculture product is life’s necessity, once the natural disaster takes place and causing lots damage, the balance between Supply and Demand will be broken. In this situation, the reaction of supplier is important for supply chain recovery. 　The purpose of this study is to investigate how do “Supplier expectation of short-term benefits”, “Supplier attitude toward stockpiling”, “Supplier perception of channel relationship quality” and “Government aiding” affect “Supplier intention to hoard”. 　In this study, the author interviewed the agriculture product suppliers with the questionnaire. After receiving all the questionnaire, the statistics of statements, reliability, effectiveness would be applied to test the assumption of the study. 　According to the results of the statistics, there are 7 conclusions as the following: 1.“Supplier perception of channel relationship quality” would positively influence “Supplier intention to hoard”. Which means when suppliers receive better channel relationship quality, they would have stronger intention to hoard. 2.“Government aiding” has no direct influence on “Supplier attitude toward stockpiling”. 3.“Government aiding” has positive influence on “Supplier expectation of short-term benefits”. In other words, if government highly aids the market, supplier would expect more benefits in future. 4.“Supplier expectation of short-term benefits” would positively affect “Supplier attitude toward stockpiling”. That is to say, if suppliers expect they would get more benefits in short term, they will be in more positive attitude toward stockpiling. 5.“Supplier attitude toward stockpiling” would positively affect “Supplier intention to hoard”. That is to say, the positive stockpiling attitude would strengthen the intention to hoard. 6.“Government aiding” has complete indirect influence on “Supplier attitude toward stockpiling” via the mediator, “Supplier expectation of short-term benefits”