The volume and availability of data produced and affordably stored has become an
important new resource for building organizational competitive advantage. Reflecting
this, and expanding the concept of the supply chain, we propose the Data Supply Chain
(DSC) as a novel concept to aid investigations into how the interconnected data
characteristics relate to and impact organizational performance. Initially, we define the
concept and develop a research agenda on DSC coupling theoretical background of
strategy and operations literature. Along with the conceptualization, we develop a set of
propositions and make suggestions for future research including testing and validating
the model fit.