There can be little dispute that supply chain management is an area of importance in the
field of management research, yet there have been few literature reviews on this topic …

A maturing stream of recent conceptual literature has focused upon supply chain
partnerships. Theoretically within a supply chain partnership, traditional competitive barriers …

In today's markets, technological and competitive forces are changing at an ever-increasing
rate. To respond to these forces, radical changes in organizations have become necessary …

States that we have witnessed, over the last several years, a profound change in
understanding the dynamics of competitive advantage. Managers now acknowledge that a …

An empirical analysis of purchasing's strategic role in the firm is presented. This study uses
data collected from high level purchasing executives at the Director/VP level representing a …

This paper develops a balanced scorecard for supply chain management (SCM) that
measures and evaluates day-to-day business operations from following four perspectives …

Close relationships with selected suppliers can enable manufacturers to reduce costs,
improve quality and enhance new product development. Although the advantages of close …

Supplier alliances have been widely touted but there are probably a limited number of
situations where they are applicable. This paper develops a model of important factors that …

By 2005, users of third‐party logistics services may be spending an average of nearly one‐
third of their total logistics budgets (compared to 20 percent today) to support 3PL services …

Most previous research on consumers' switching intention has focused on individual
variables that have immediate effects on consumers' intentions or behaviors, rather than …