Chapter 6
Vertical Integration
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The Strategic Management Process
External Analysis Strategic Choice
Mission
Objectives
Strategy Implementation
Competitive Advantage
Internal Analysis
Which Businesses to Enter? Corporate Level Strategy
Vertical Integration
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Logic of Corporate Level Strategy
Corporate level strategy should create value:
1) such that the value of the corporate whole increases
2) such that businesses forming the corporate whole are worth more than they would be under independent ownership
3) that equity holders cannot create through portfolio investing
a corporate level strategy should create synergies that are not available in equity markets vertical integration = value chain economies
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What is Vertical Integration?
Where your pizza comes from
Dairy Farmers
(milk)
Seed Companies
(Alfalfa & Corn)
Pizza Chains Leprino Foods
(Mozzarella Cheese)
Crop Farmers
(Alfalfa & Corn)
End Consumer
Food Distributors
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What is Vertical Integration?
Backward Vertical Integration Pizza Chains Leprino Foods
(Mozzarella Cheese)
Dairy Farmers
(milk)
Seed Companies
(Alfalfa & Corn)
Crop Farmers
(Alfalfa & Corn)
End Consumer
Food Distributors
Forward Vertical Integration
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Value Chain Economies
The Logic of Value Chain Economies
the focal firm is able to create synergy with the other firm(s)
Dairy Farmers
(milk)
Backward Vertical Integration
cost reduction revenue enhancement
the focal firm is able to capture above normal economic returns (avoid perfect competition)
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Leprino Foods
(Mozzarella Cheese)
Food Distributors
Forward Vertical Integration
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Competitive Advantage
If a vertical integration strategy meets the VRIO criteria Is it Valuable? Is it Rare? Is it costly to Imitate? Is the firm Organized to exploit it?
it may create competitive advantage.
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Value of Vertical Integration
Market vs. Integrated Economic Exchange
markets and integrated hierarchies are forms in which economic exchange can take place
economic exchange should be conducted in the form that maximizes value for the focal firm thus, firms assess which form is likely to generate more value
Integration makes sense when the focal firm can capture more value than a market exchange provides
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Value of Vertical Integration
Three Value Considerations
Leverage Capabilities firm capabilities may be sources of competitive advantage in other businesses Manage Opportunism opportunism may be checked by internalizing (TSI) Exploit Flexibility internalizing is usually less flexible
flexibility is prized when internalizing must if not, then dont uncertainty is be less costly than integrate exchange high opportunism
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Rarity of Vertical Integration
Integration vs. Non-Integration
a firms integration strategy may be rare because the firm integrates or because the firm does not integrate thus, the question of rareness does not depend on the number of forms observed a firms integration strategy is rare or common with respect to the value created by the strategy Example: Toyotas Choice Not to Integrate Suppliers
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Imitability of Vertical Integration
Form vs. Function
the form, per se, is usually not costly to imitate the value-producing function of integration may be costly to imitate, if: the integrated firm possesses resource combinations that are the result of: historical uniqueness causal ambiguity social complexity small numbers prevent further integration capital requirements are prohibitive
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Imitability of Vertical Integration
Modes of Entry
acquisition and internal development are alternative modes of entry into vertical integration
thus, one firm may acquire a supplier while a competitor could imitate that strategy through internal development in both cases, the boundaries of the firm would encompass the new business strategic alliances can be viewed as a substitute for vertical integrationwithout the costs of ownership
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Organizing Vertical Integration
Functional Structure (U-Form)
CEOs Role Cooperation
Accounting Finance Marketing HR Engineering
Cooperation
Conflict
Original Business
Original Business
Original Business
Original Business
Original Business
New Business
New Business
New Business
New Business
New Business
Conflict
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Organizing Vertical Integration
Management Controls
What needs to be controlled in a vertically integrated firm? managers efforts to achieve the desired value chain economies cooperation and competition among and between functions the integration of new businesses into the existing business time horizon of managers
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Organizing Vertical Integration
Management Controls Budgets
separating strategic and operational budgets strategic: inputs & outputs operational: outputs
Board Committees
provide oversight and direction to managers
help ensure that strategic direction is maintained
These mechanisms focus management attention on achieving value chain economies
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Organizing Vertical Integration
Compensation
Salary
Integration Opportunism
Cash Bonus: Individual Stock Grants: Individual
Leveraging Capabilities
Cash Bonus: Group Stock Grants: Group Stock Options: Individual Stock Options: Group
Cooperation
Exploiting Flexibility
Time Horizon
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Summary
Vertical Integration makes sense when value chain economies can be created and captured
may allow a firm to leverage capabilities
may be a response to the threat of opportunism and uncertainty as a form of exchange per se, is not rare nor costly to imitate
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Summary
Vertical Integration is an important consideration in the decision to expand internationally (range of possibilities)
makes sense when done for the right reasons, under the right circumstances
can be a costly mistake if done wrong Ownership is costlyintegrate only when the benefits outweigh the costs of integration!
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