Trust, Information Technology, and Cooperation in Supply Chains
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Companies have moved away from vertical integration, in which a single company converts raw materials into products for end users, to an increasing reliance on supply chains. A typical U.S. company purchases 55% of the value of its products from other companies (Dyer & Singh, 1998). The promise of greater efficiency and the ability to adapt to increasingly volatile market dynamics have prompted this shift from centralized control to decentralized control.
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