Understanding Supply Chains

Concepts Critiques & Futures

Steve New, Roy Westbrook

309 pages, parution le 27/09/2004

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Résumé

The Supply Chain concept is one of the most important ideas to emerge in management research and practice in the last twenty five years.

Organizations do not exist in isolation. Any organization, whether a large corporation, public body, or small business, aims to meet the needs of its customers and stakeholders. In order to do this, it will need resources, and many of thee materials, equipment, or supplies, it will acquire from other organizations. Thus a number of organizations are linked in a supply chain, and the performance of an organization involved in this supply chain is therefore linked to a greater or lesser degree by the actions of the other organizations in it.

There is no doubt that the emergence of Supply Chain Management has been a major development in management thinking and practice. t has become an established feature of management education, and a professional field with its own magazines and journals-a field with its own distinctive perspectives. However, many writers observe that it is a field characterized by imprecise terminology, sloppily applied metaphors, and conflated or confused concepts. The slightest skim of the many literatures that use the term eveals a wide range of interpretations, hundreds f different formulations, nuances, and taxonomies for the 'Supply Chain', and dozens of near synonyms.

The purpose of this volume is to bring together insights from the leading researchers and thinkers on Supply Chain Management to help move the field forward. It provides a survey of the key theoretical concepts which underpin the field, and presents critical evaluations of the underlying ideas and approaches. It will be an important resource for those active in researching in, or applying the ideas of Supply Chain Management, and for advanced students and their teachers.

L'auteur - Steve New

Steve New is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, and a Fellow of Hertford College.

L'auteur - Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook is a Professor of Operations Management and Director of the MBA programme in the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College.

Sommaire

Preface
Supply Chain Paradigms
Supply Chains: A Marketing Perspective
Supply Chains: A Network Perspective
Supply Chains: Construction and Legitimation
Supply Chain Dynamics
Supply Chain Complexity
Supply Chain Leanring
Supply Chain Transparency
Supply Chain Relationships
The Green Supply Chain
The Ethical Supply Chain
Postcript: Supply Chain Futures

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Steve New, Roy Westbrook
Parution	27/09/2004
Nb. de pages	309
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	503g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199259335
ISBN13	978-0-19-925933-5