Download or read book Control in supply relations between businesses Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence written by Rosa Alba Miraglia and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2013-10-04T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 368.2

Download or read book Management Control of Global Supply Chains written by Nils Horch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within global and rapidly changing environments, cooperation and networking offer possibilities for sharing costs and risks, as well as keeping up with constantly renewed information from outside the firms' boundaries. In line with this, an effective management control of supply chain processes seems to be relevant to compete against other supply chains and to get the required information. In this context, an implementation of a management control institution for inter-firm relations, like a supply chain management control (SCMC), that provides relevant qualitative and quantitative data to manage supply chains reflects an important issue. However, a comprehensive approach with regard to the management control of the entire supply chain and how it can be fulfilled has received scant attention in prior research. The aim of this thesis is therefore to analyze management control systems in global supply chains by means of a mixed methods design with special regard to functional, institutional and instrumental issues. In this context, qualitative data are combined with theoretical insights to develop an empirical model which is tested by means of a quantitative study. Following this, insights into management control aspects, organization of the supply chain management control, management control mechanisms, and the integration of suppliers are provided.

Download or read book The Nature of Supply Chain Management Research written by Julia Wolf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Wolf investigates the theoretical aspect of SCM by analyzing the evolution SCM research has undergone and by assessing the question whether SCM research can be considered a scientific paradigm as of today.

Download or read book Governance Mechanisms in Sustainable Buyer supplier Relationships written by Stefan Egle and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies face the problem that the suppliers' social and ecological performance is often sugarcoated. To resolve this information bias, these companies develop control mechanisms in new contracts with suppliers that allow an improved performance verification and reduce the incompleteness of contracts. From the perspective of transaction costs theory, bounded rationality and a lack of foresight result in incomplete contracts. Empirical evidence supports this hypothesis, indicating an even higher degree of incompleteness of contracts. Only the additional consideration of an emerging learning process leads to a theory-consistent degree of incompleteness as predicted by transaction cost theory when designing contractual controls mechanisms. However, the learning patterns that emerge during this process have remained largely unexplored. This dissertation integrates insights about learning patterns from developmental psychology in transaction cost theory and empirically tests these insights with a structural equation model. I will demonstrate that a U-shaped learning pattern emerges when designing contractual control mechanisms during supplier selection, by means of a survey with a sample size of 125 cases. In this learning pattern, rule-based knowledge and specific knowledge are acquired. However, over the course of time, specific knowledge is initially forgotten, until rule-based and specific knowledge are eventually acquired in the long run. Based on organizational literature, four causal chains are derived and tested separately. The results reveal that general knowledge enters control design through learning from experience, whereby general knowledge refers to biased sustainability performance (#1), learning from company-specific experience decreases trust that requires an additional need for control (#2), experience- and capability-related partner selection induces trust that reduces the need for control (#3), and intensive.

Download or read book Supplier Switching Management written by Phillip Kirst and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current market dynamics have forced industrial companies to realign their value creation processes by concentrating on core competences. These measures have led to outsourcing of areas in which companies have no distinctive capabilities and in turn, they have extensively reduced the net added value ratio. Consequently, a substantial part of performance-critical activities are not under the control of manufactures anymore, they have shifted to suppliers. In order to maintain the influence on the supply side and on the value creation process, the concept of supplier integration has recently been strongly promoted. Supplier integration first requires the reduction of the number of suppliers, in order to intensify the relationship with some of the remaining ones. If the intensification of supplier-buyer relationships comprises mutual adjustments or specific investments, the supplier becomes integrated. The specificity of an investment refers to the degree to which a company can redeploy it to alternative uses without a sacrifice of productive value. Thus, the more specific a certain investment becomes, the lower its value is when put to another use. Integrated supplier-buyer relationships promise benefits and increased competitiveness for both parties. On the other hand, they cause dependencies and hence an inflexibility to switch, which can be a threat for the purchasing organization if the performance of the incumbent supplier weakens unexpectedly. The practical relevance of research on supplier switching relates to the dilemma of the simultaneous need for stability through supplier integration and the flexibility of the supplier structure. This work discusses the possibilities of increasing the flexibility of supplier-buyer relationships without sacrificing the benefits of supplier integration. In the perspective of the research on hand, this can be accomplished through a systematic approach to supplier switches – a business situation, which has been neglected in science and practice. The book is organized in four main chapters and starts with the background of the relevance of supplier switching and the description of the research questions. The second chapter provides in-depth theoretical insight into supplier integration and switching and clusters activities involved in vendor replacements. Afterwards, six supplier switches of different companies are analyzed. It will finish up with good practices and possibilities for smooth and successful supplier switches.

Download or read book Social sustainability at work A key to sustainable development in business written by Francoise Contreras and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Supply Chain Management in the Mastering Business in Asia Series written by Bowon Kim and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chain management is a broader concept than logistics and extends beyond the company to all branches in the supply chain, including vendors, customers, carriers, facilitators, and channel intermediates. An in-depth understanding of supply chain fundamentals is imperative to create real value for the customer. Bowon Kim's Supply Chain Management examines the issues of effective SCM from the perspective of a dynamic organization, offering theoretical and empirical knowledge to effectively manage this interlocking series of transactions. Key decision dimensions are analyzed to better appreciate and manage the interrelationships between the critical elements of any SCM strategy: configuration, connection, inventory and logistics. Each element is reviewed to understand its dynamics and how it interacts with other factors to influence the overall performance of the supply chain. All linkages are scrutinized, from the optimum characteristics of supply chain coordination to innovative collaboration; the evolution of a supply chain strategy is charted through the course of this unique reference book. By thoroughly studying this book, readers will be able to develop a highly effective and well-balanced perspective to elucidate significant managerial problems in supply chain management.

Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Governance of Buyer Supplier Relationships in Supply Chains written by S. Sapukotanage and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buyer -supplier relationships in supply chains are becoming increasingly important as buyers realize that their success is often tied to the capabilities and performance of suppliers. However since the manufacturer and the supplier are separate entities with each having individual goals, it is not definite that the supplier will support the manufacturer's request and vice versa. As a result exchange partners are said to be more confident about cooperative activities when they feel that they have an adequate level of control over the actions of their partners. Therefore, the need to manage a manufacturer's relationship with its suppliers has been discussed in literature over a long period of time. Thus the aim of this paper is to discuss how the supplier governance mechanisms have been identified in literature during the last decade. According to the literature, the manufacturing firms can draft legal contracts or create formal structures allowing suppliers' financial resource (formal governance) or establishing strong ties that serve as part of the social control mechanism (relational governance) which governs partnership behaviours or maintains a combination of both. Many argue that formal contracts actually undermine trust and thereby encourage the opportunistic behavior which they are supposed to discourage. The benefits of relational ties are also questioned in the case of repeated partnerships. Reviewing the literature it could be concluded that it is important for organizations to understand the organizational context (power relationship and competition intensity) in which the relationship exists, the complexities introduced by uncertainty and the circumstances in which they are applied in order to establish a win-win situation through the governance mechanisms.

Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives of Supplier buyer Long term Relationships in India written by Jong Pil Yu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The External Control of Organizations written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty.

Download or read book Trends in Business Organization written by Institut für Wltwirtschaft (Kiel, Alemania) and published by J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck). This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises essays which examine the changes in business organization and relationships in context of the trend towards building more cooperative and more participatory relationships between stakeholders. The essays are grouped under four themes: Motivation and incentive structures within organizations (e.g. corporate culture, profit sharing); ownership and managerial control; supplier relationships and interfirm cooperation; and organizational systems and business strategies.

Download or read book Applied Multiple Regression Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences written by Patricia Cohen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text on multiple regression is noted for its nonmathematical, applied, and data-analytic approach. Readers profit from its verbal-conceptual exposition and frequent use of examples. The applied emphasis provides clear illustrations of the principles and provides worked examples of the types of applications that are possible. Researchers learn how to specify regression models that directly address their research questions. An overview of the fundamental ideas of multiple regression and a review of bivariate correlation and regression and other elementary statistical concepts provide a strong foundation for understanding the rest of the text. The third edition features an increased emphasis on graphics and the use of confidence intervals and effect size measures, and an accompanying CD with data for most of the numerical examples along with the computer code for SPSS, SAS, and SYSTAT. Applied Multiple Regression serves as both a textbook for graduate students and as a reference tool for researchers in psychology, education, health sciences, communications, business, sociology, political science, anthropology, and economics. An introductory knowledge of statistics is required. Self-standing chapters minimize the need for researchers to refer to previous chapters.