... and internal integration mediate these impacts. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ empirical survey data from 200 Chinese manufacturers and use structural equation modeling to test the proposed relationships. Findings The results show that supply visibility is positively related to supplier...

...Emilio Ruzo-Sanmartín; Alaa Abdelaziz Abousamra; Carmen Otero-Neira; Göran Svensson Purpose To examine the role of supply chain integration (SCI – i.e. supplier integration, customer integration and internal integration) between integrated information technology (IIT) and financial performance (FP...

... indicate that internal integration (II) mediates the positive effects of the core company’s product-market innovation strategy on supplier and customer integration. Furthermore, the results indicate that prospectors have stronger internal, supplier and customer integration as compared to defenders...

... 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Strategy Supply chain integration Performance Uncertainty Moderating effects Internal integration The increasing global competence and the shortening product life-cycle are the two main factors that encourage...