Supply chain integraand firm's performance: An empirical investigation of Indian manufacturing sector

Supply Chain Integration (SCI) emphasizes long-term collaboration partnership between suppliers and customers within a supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between supply chain integration with its antecedent, management leadership and organizational compatibility and to explore its impact on the supply chain performance as consequences. The proposed research model was tested via structural equation modeling analysis with survey data collected from 76 manufacturers in India, where firms are facing increased global competitive pressure and heavily utilize SCI with respect to strategically partnership with suppliers and customers to retain their competitive advantages. The result presented in this paper show that internal as well as external supplier-customer integration positively impact supply chain performance, while the only correlation between management leadership and supplier integration and also organizational compatibility with internal integration were supported. This study provides researchers and practitioners with more comprehensive understanding about SCI in a supply chain management context. Future research should focus on developing additional antecedences of SCI that may capture other aspects of strategic supply chain integration. This paper provides empirical evidence by investigating an integrated framework focusing on the antecedents of internal and external firm integration and its impact on supply chain performance.