The Relationship between Supply Chain Integration and Performance of Agricultural Listed Companies

Based on transaction cost theory, information processing theory and resource dependency theory, this paper selects the data of agricultural listed companies from 2012 to 2015 as the research object to analyses the effect of supplier integration and customer integration on agricultural listed companies' performance respectively. The empirical results show that supplier integration has a positive effect on market performance, while customer integration has a negative effect on financial performance. It shows that agricultural listed companies lack of customer management; therefore, agricultural listed companies should establish cooperation relationship with customers to improve the comprehensive competitiveness through the implementation of supply chain management.