Supply Chain Management: Volume 8 Issue 2

The “Indian” supply chain architecture

B.S. Sahay, Vasant Cavale, Ramneesh Mohan

With close to 22 percent of aggregate industry sales tied up in inventories in the entire supply chain network, what is it that ails Indian industry? Is it the way Indian supply…

The inevitability of conflict between buyers and sellers

M.L. Emiliani

Examines the source of conflict between buyers and sellers as it relates to the price of goods purchased for use in production. Focuses on management’s understanding and…

Corporate ethics as a factor for success – the measurement instrument of the University of Agricultural Sciences (BOKU), Vienna

Walter Schiebel, Siegi Pöchtrager

Over the past decade, a growing number of companies have recognized the business benefits of corporate social responsibilities policies and practices. Their experiences are…

Green perspectives and practices: a “comparative logistics” study

Paul R. Murphy, Richard F. Poist

The present paper adds to the relatively limited empirical literature involving green logistics by comparing US and non‐US firms with respect to select propositions regarding…

Manufacturer channel management behavior and retailers’ performance: an empirical investigation of automotive channel

Tung‐Zong Chang, Su‐Jane Chen, Pia Polsa

In a supplier‐dominated channel system, how a supplier manages the channel has profound influence on its retailers’ overall operations. The effect of supplier channel management…

A generic supplier management tool for outsourcing manufacturing

K.L. Choy, W.B. Lee

A corporation’s global supply chain usually consists of enterprises and manufacturers that are graphically dispersed around the world, whereby each company is involved in a wide…

Competitiveness of meat agri‐food chain in Brazil

Decio Zylbersztajn, Cláudio A. Pinheiro Machado Filho

Studies on competitiveness in agri‐food systems have been challenged by non‐standard approaches. Traditional studies are defined as the ones based on comparative costs and market…

Pre‐construction project partnering: from adversarial to collaborative relationships

Paul Humphreys, Jason Matthews, Monan Kumaraswamy

The use of subcontracting within the construction industry has become commonplace with many main contractors only undertaking the management and co‐ordination activities. The…