Supply Chain Management: Volume 6 Issue 4

Building intellectual capital in the supply chain – the role of e‐commerce

Michael O’Keeffe

Business‐to‐business e‐commerce enhances the competitiveness of the firm by building relationship intangible assets that form the foundation for collaboration‐based strategies.

Collaborative buyer‐supplier relationships in Hong Kong manufacturing firms

P.K. Humphreys, W.K. Shiu, F.T.S. Chan

The relationships between buyers and suppliers have received considerable attention in recent years. Traditionally, buyer‐supplier relationships were considered as adversarial…

New perspectives on construction supply chain integration

Andrew R.J. Dainty, Sarah J. Millett, Geoffrey H. Briscoe

In 1998, a government‐sponsored review of the UK construction sector called for the adoption of initiatives from manufacturing industry in order to increase productivity and…

Empirical analysis of supplier selection and involvement, customer satisfaction, and firm performance

Michael Tracey, Chong Leng Tan

Supply chain management as a system of operation continues to evolve. This study employs confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis to examine empirically the relationships…

Deliberate and emergent logistics strategies in food retailing: a case study of the Greek multiple food retail sector

Michael A. Bourlakis, Constantine A. Bourlakis

According to the “classical” school of thought , the implementation of a firm’s strategy can be the result of a deliberate and rational process, or alternatively an emergent and…