Supply chain integration and innovation performance of manufacturing firms: The moderating role of research and development investment intensity.

ABSTRACT: This paper delves into the impact of supply chain integration on corporate innovation performance. Utilizing panel data from 1,038 manufacturing companies listed on China's A-shares stock market from 2012 to 2021, it analyzes how firms influence their innovation performance through supply chain integration and explores the moderating role of R&D investment in this relationship. The study reveals that internal integration significantly enhances corporate innovation performance, while customer and supplier integration negatively impact it. Furthermore, R&D investment mitigates the negative effect of supplier integration on innovation performance and positively moderates the relationship between customer integration and innovation performance. Given the diversity in ownership structures and e

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11864519 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature