Integrity is considered an important corporate value. Yet recent global events have highlighted the challenges firms face at living up to their stated values, especially when extended supply chain partners are involved. The concept of Supply Chain Integrity (SCI) can help firms shift focus beyond internal corporate integrity, toward supply chain integrity. Researchers and managers will benefit from an understanding of the SCI concept toward implementing SCI to better align supply chain partners with stated corporate values. This research fully develops and empirically grounds the firm-level, inter-firm-oriented SCI concept. The thematic analysis of six firms’ archival and website content elaborated empirical descriptions of SCI themes and enabled the development of a process model for SCI, presenting a novel view of the underlying process by which firms can assess, develop, and maintain SCI across their supply chains. We propose the SCI model as an evolutionary process to improve a firm’s supply chain sustainability, rather than a dichotomous end state where firms either “have” integrity or they don’t. The SCI model could be used as a tool to help leaders create necessary change to better align values and supporting statements with culture, while influencing and affecting stakeholders across the supply chain. This is particularly important in today’s world, where business leaders must consider all stakeholders and address important stakeholder-driven issues such as supply chain sustainability, resilience, and security, which are now at the forefront in the ever-changing environment.

诚信被认为是重要的企业价值观。然而，最近的全球事件凸显了企业在实现其既定价值观方面面临的挑战，特别是当涉及扩展的供应链合作伙伴时。供应链诚信（SCI）的概念可以帮助企业将焦点从企业内部诚信转向供应链诚信。研究人员和管理人员将受益于对 SCI 概念的理解，以实施 SCI，从而更好地使供应链合作伙伴与既定的企业价值观保持一致。本研究充分发展了公司层面、公司间导向的 SCI 概念，并以实证为基础。对六家公司档案和网站内容的主题分析详细阐述了 SCI 主题的实证描述，并开发了 SCI 流程模型，提出了公司评估、开发和维护整个供应链中的 SCI 基本流程的新颖视角链。我们建议将 SCI 模型视为提高企业供应链可持续性的演化过程，而不是企业要么“拥有”诚信，要么没有的二分法最终状态。 SCI 模型可以用作帮助领导者进行必要变革的工具，以更好地将价值观和支持声明与文化结合起来，同时影响整个供应链的利益相关者。这在当今世界尤为重要，企业领导者必须考虑所有利益相关者，并解决利益相关者驱动的重要问题，例如供应链可持续性、弹性和安全性，这些问题在不断变化的环境中处于最前沿。