ABSTRACT

The scope of this article is an inter-industry study of the Swedish Wood Manufacturing Sector (WMS), examined from the perspective of the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) paradigm in the theoretical field of Industrial Organization. The four research questions are: (1) identify the industries within the sector, (2) construct a contextually adapted SCP model and form the basis for hypotheses of relationships between the different variables in the model, (3) establish quantitative correlations between the variables, and finally (4) present a basically qualitative, explanatory interpretive analysis.

The empirical investigation is a total population study of 311 firms. Nine industries are identified, and an SCP model is presented including four explanatory variables – exposure to international competition, value-added scope, domestic demand growth potential and (domestic industry) seller concentration – and two performance variables – industry profitability (ROA) and industry growth.

The combined qualitative and quantitative explanatory analysis identifies some important relationships in the SCP model. The most prominent findings are the strong negative relationships between exposure to international competition and industry profitability and industry growth. Another finding is that strong positive relationships are found between the degree of value-added scope and industry profitability and industry growth.

摘要

本文的范围是对瑞典木材制造部门 (WMS) 的跨行业研究，从工业组织理论领域的结构-行为-绩效 (SCP) 范式的角度进行审查。四个研究问题是：(1) 确定该部门内的行业，(2) 构建一个适应情境的 SCP 模型，并为模型中不同变量之间的关系假设奠定基础，(3) 建立变量之间的定量相关性, 最后 (4) 呈现一个基本定性的、解释性的解释性分析。

实证调查是对 311 家公司的总体研究。确定了九个行业，并提出了一个 SCP 模型，包括四个解释变量——国际竞争暴露度、附加值范围、国内需求增长潜力和（国内行业）卖家集中度——以及两个绩效变量——行业盈利能力 (ROA) 和行业生长。

结合定性和定量解释分析确定了 SCP 模型中的一些重要关系。最突出的发现是暴露于国际竞争与行业盈利能力和行业增长之间存在强烈的负相关关系。另一个发现是，增值范围的程度与行业盈利能力和行业增长之间存在强烈的正相关关系。