“…The implications of buyer–supplier interdependence for both supply chain relationships (e.g., Hoetker, Swaminathan, & Mitchell, 2007; Mahapatra, Narasimhan, & Barbieri, 2010) and firm boundaries (Novak & Eppinger, 2001; Sosa, Eppinger, & Rowles, 2004; Ulrich & Ellison, 2005) are well established. The role of supply chain contracting in the context of quality failures (e.g., Zu & Kaynak, 2012) and supplier performance ambiguity (Agrawal et al, 2017; Mellewigt, Hoetker, & Lütkewitte, 2018) has also been scrutinized in detail. There are many authors who write about the importance of avoiding lock‐in by either using multiple suppliers for the same component, or maintaining component production capabilities in‐house as well (e.g., Gray & Handley, 2015; Mahapatra et al, 2010).…”