A Structure–Conduct–Performance Perspective of How Strategic Supply Chain Integration Affects Firm Performance
基于产业组织经济学的结构-行为-绩效理论，利用档案和调查数据，研究了企业战略、供应链整合与绩效的关系，发现内外整合策略通过影响客户需求响应进而影响运营和财务绩效。
There are several factors that affect a firm's ability to successfully integrate internally and externally for organizational improvement. This study seeks to understand the relationship between a firm's strategy, its supply chain integration efforts, and firm performance. Leveraging the theoretical lens of structure–conduct–performance from the industrial organization economics literature, and utilizing both archival and survey data, we describe how firms may align their internal and external supply chain integration strategies with customers and suppliers. In doing so, these internal and external integration strategies affect the firm's ability to respond to customer demand, which then impacts operational and financial performance. Our work provides theoretical and empirical evidence of these relationships and thus extends prior strategic supply chain integration literature.