There are several factors which 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...

Using a large sample of approximately 210,000 supplier-firm relationships, we develop new measures to operationalize the industrial and geographical concentrations of firms' upstream industries. The developed measures show an upstream industry might be competitive and contain many suppliers (low...