The second issue relates to our ability to
generalize the results to other industries. Strictly, we
can generalize our results to the automotive, computers,
and electronics industries. In addition, our sample
had 73% of firms in the small to medium (SME) size
category. While our ‘‘size’’ control variable was not
significant, it is conceivable that the results may be
more reflective of SMEs. This may have had an
influence on the results we had for the EBUSCUST
construct, which we found to have no affect on the
integration variables for the complete sample. Nonetheless,
we believe there are interesting insights for
industries that have similar demographics and supply
chain and technology practices.