The link between supply chain fit and financial performance of the firm⋆
基于259家美欧制造企业数据，研究发现供应链匹配度越高，企业资产回报率越高，且负向不匹配比正向不匹配更损害绩效。
Abstract The bottom‐line financial impact of supply chain management has been of continuing interest. Building on the operations strategy literature, Fisher's (1997) conceptual framework, a survey of 259 U.S. and European manufacturing firms, and secondary financial data, we investigate the relationship between supply chain fit (i.e., strategic consistencies between the products’ supply and demand uncertainty and the underlying supply chain design) and the financial performance of the firm. The findings indicate that the higher the supply chain fit, the higher the Return on Assets (ROA) of the firm, and that firms with a negative misfit show a lower performance than firms with a positive misfit.