Successful interorganizational governance requires practices that reduce information asymmetry between supply chain partners and foster collaborative activities. We study one potential practice—suppliers aligning their performance measurement systems with their largest customer’s performance...

In this study, we examine the association between supplier concentration and cost flexibility and how such association varies with the buyer firm's bargaining power and the nature of buyer-supplier relationship. Drawing on prior literature, we predict that there is a positive association between...

As organizations increasingly face the need to compete for market share by building highly integrated global supply chains, governance of these complex relationships becomes a major strategic challenge. Research reporting high failure rates for collaborative alliances with supply chain partners...

Organizations are often facing the problem of determining the degree of investment in building information links with their suppliers and buyers to reduce costs, lead times, and quality problems, improve timely customized delivery, increase asset utilization and improve corporate profitability....

We examine the effects of CSR information on stakeholder decision-making, specifically on supply-chain contracting decisions. To obtain plausibly exogenous variation in CSR information, we exploit the 2017 CSR rating coverage expansion from Russell 1000 to Russell 2000 firms (hereafter,...