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Supply Chain Management (Hardcover, New)
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Supply Chain Management (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
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The idea of a supply chain is one of the most important concepts to
emerge in management research and practice in recent years. In
simple terms, a supply chain might be defined as a sequence of
organizations-such as suppliers, wholesalers, retailers,
distributors, and transport and storage facilities-that participate
in the production of a particular product or service. Supply chain
management (SCM) recognizes that businesses and other organizations
cannot function successfully in isolation and is concerned with the
direction and regulation of materials, information, and finances as
they process along such a chain. The burgeoning academic and
professional interest in SCM can be traced to a variety of causes
including the pressures on organizations to outsource non-core
activities; globalization; a growing appreciation of the dynamics
of 'lean supply' Japanese sourcing practices; the growth of the use
of IT for collaborative logistics planning; and, more recently, the
frenzy around 'B2B' e-commerce. This has led to an unprecedented
growth of practitioner-orientated publications and a similar
development in academic activity. The sheer scale of the growth in
SCM research output makes this collection especially timely and
welcome. Furthermore, ideas at the heart of SCM have also become
the concern of much academic work that goes on under labels other
than business and management, and the collection will include
insights and research from these different disciplinary
perspectives. Edited by a leading SCM researcher at the University
of Oxford's Said Business School, this collection brings together
carefully selected key historical papers along with cutting-edge
research. The organization of the four volumes-on operational
integration, relational and functional integration, explanatory
frameworks, and the ethics, environment and social impacts of
SCM-emphasizes the important key themes and interconnections in the
field. Together with the editor's newly written introductory
essays, this organization will enable users to make sense of the
wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed
SCM thinking and practice to date. It is an essential collection
destined to be valued as a vital research resource by all scholars
and students of the subject.
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