Balancing Supply Chain Concentration and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of the Medical Manufacturing Industry

Siyuan Ren

2025

Abstract

With the continuous exploration of the methods of cost reduction and efficiency improvement in supply chain, the potential influence of supply chain structure has been paid more and more attention. This study focus on one structural aspect - supply chain concentration, investigating its impact on supply chain efficiency and exploring the moderating role of supply chain transparency. A highly regulated and innovation - intensive industry - medical manufacturing industry is selected as the research industry in this study. The panel data from 366 medical manufacturing industry firms with 2,300 firm-year observations over the period 2014-2023 is used as the longitudinal dataset in this study. The results shows that supply chain concentration has a significantly negative impact in supply chain efficiency in medical manufacturing industry; supply chain transparency has a negative moderator effect, that is, firms in medical manufacturing industry with higher supply chain transparency obtain less supply chain efficiency. The findings provide valuable insights for both academic research and managerial practice by indicating the importance of balancing supply chain concentration and transparency in improving supply chain efficiency.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ren S. (2025). Balancing Supply Chain Concentration and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of the Medical Manufacturing Industry. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce and Modern Logistics - Volume 1: ICEML; ISBN 978-989-758-775-7, SciTePress, pages 346-351. DOI: 10.5220/0013844500004719

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceml25,
author={Siyuan Ren},
title={Balancing Supply Chain Concentration and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of the Medical Manufacturing Industry},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce and Modern Logistics - Volume 1: ICEML},
year={2025},
pages={346-351},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013844500004719},
isbn={978-989-758-775-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce and Modern Logistics - Volume 1: ICEML
TI - Balancing Supply Chain Concentration and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of the Medical Manufacturing Industry
SN - 978-989-758-775-7
AU - Ren S.
PY - 2025
SP - 346
EP - 351
DO - 10.5220/0013844500004719
PB - SciTePress