Control Beyond Ownership: Open‐Book Accounting in Unbalanced Supply Chain Networks

Open‐book accounting is a practice to disclose the full cost structure of suppliers to customers to achieve cost efficiency in supply chains. However, the dominant market power of customers could interfere with this goal in practice. Using unique data on the suppliers of large Korean business groups...

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Published in:Asia-Pacific journal of financial studies 2023, 52(6), , pp.979-1013
Main Authors: Liu, Yunxiao, Kim, Woojin, Lee, Jongsub
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Firm boundary
Large business groups
Open‐book accounting
Supply chain networks
Surplus sharing
Unbalanced bargaining power of customers over suppliers
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Summary:Open‐book accounting is a practice to disclose the full cost structure of suppliers to customers to achieve cost efficiency in supply chains. However, the dominant market power of customers could interfere with this goal in practice. Using unique data on the suppliers of large Korean business groups, we find that open‐book accounting is associated with profit rate regulation by customers. Suppliers' price growth is capped despite the increase in supplied goods. Profit rates of suppliers significantly co‐move in times of low average profitability. Using an exogenous regulatory reform that outlawed coercive open‐book accounting, we find the tendencies significantly reversed post‐reform.
ISSN:2041-9945
2041-6156
DOI:10.1111/ajfs.12453