Maritime logistics collaboration research has concentrated on bilateral trust and digital integration, while the structural roles of adaptive leadership, organizational flexibility, trust, and internal capability as antecedents of collaboration remain underexplored, particularly in emerging archipelagic economies. This study develops and empirically tests a structural model using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with survey data from 120 Indonesian port stakeholders, situated within Indonesia’s National Logistics Ecosystem (NLE), a government reform initiative integrating cargo flows from vessel arrival to warehouse delivery through a unified national digital platform. The initial conceptual model, grounded in the literature, examines adaptive leadership, organizational flexibility, trust, and internal capability as antecedents of maritime logistics collaboration and collaboration as a driver of operational, financial, and environmental performance. Following measurement model assessment, the model was empirically respecified to address construct overlap and improve statistical robustness. The final model reveals a sequential mechanism in which Adaptive Leadership significantly strengthens Trust, Trust facilitates Strategic Collaboration, and Strategic Collaboration enables Operational Collaboration. Operational Collaboration subsequently improves Operational, Financial, and Environmental Performance, with the strongest effect observed on Operational Performance. The findings extend traditional trust centered collaboration perspectives by demonstrating how leadership and relational mechanisms progress through strategic and operational collaboration to generate multidimensional performance. The study therefore advances a governance-based orchestration perspective on maritime logistics collaboration while highlighting the importance of translating strategic alignment into coordinated operational action.

Keywords:

collaboration, maritime logistics, flexibility, adaptive leadership, Indonesia, sem-pls

@article{oscm-2026-1243,
  title={A Structural Model of Maritime Logistics Collaboration: Examining the Roles of Adaptive Leadership and Trust in Driving Performance},
  year={2026},
  author={Dothy Dothy and Raja Oloan Saut Gurning and Imam Baihaqi and Bahana Wiradanti},
  journal={Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal},
  volume={19},
  number={4},
  pages={687--710},
  doi={10.31387/oscm0670546}
}

Dothy Dothy, Raja Oloan Saut Gurning, Imam Baihaqi, Bahana Wiradanti (2026). A Structural Model of Maritime Logistics Collaboration: Examining the Roles of Adaptive Leadership and Trust in Driving Performance. Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 19(4), 687-710. https://doi.org/10.31387/oscm0670546