The Philosophy of Supply Chain Management
SCM reveals its historical and practical proximity with operations management by its borrowing of lean, agile, leagile, and other manufacturing...
Defining “Supply Chain Management”
Definitional diversity, although a complicating factor in a synoptic literature review and academic taxonomy, is not entirely negative. Anderson (1983)...
Early Days: Developing the Literature (1)
The Evolution of SCM Theory This section outlines the origin and ascent of the SC concept and SCM theory. From...
Early Days: Developing the Literature (0)
Background The common term “supply chain” (hereafter “SC”) is seldom defined in clear separation from “supply chain management” (hereafter “SCM”),...
Social Capital as Supply Chain Risk Mediator
Social capital theorists such as Baker (1990), Coleman (1990), and Burt (1992), and Putnam (2000) claim that social capital, like...
Organisational Structure as Risk-Mediator (2)
Metaphors of the Organisation Morgan (1986) defined eight (moderately famous) metaphors to describe different organisations: Of these, several were relevant...