Recently added articles from Journal of Supply Chain Management:
Looking forward, pushing back and peering sideways: analyzing the sustainability of industrial symbiosis.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION <Pre> Waste is "raw material in the wrong place" (Boons 2008, p. 149--citing Talbot 1919 Millions From Waste) </Pre> Garbage has earned a bad reputation and with good reason. Waste costs Americans billions of dollars annually in disposal and clean-up costs ...
Food for thought: social versus environmental sustainability practices and performance outcomes.
Sep 22, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Few industries have received as much recent public attention as the food industry. From supply chain management vulnerabilities exposed by various quality-based food recalls (Roth, Tsay, Pullman and Grey 2008) to rapidly increasing food costs, food has been labeled ...
An empirical examination of reverse auction appropriateness in B2B source selection.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Sourcing continues to become more strategic in nature because: (1) it is a key link between an organization and its suppliers that "play a critical role in supporting a firm's competitive strategy, whether it be cost leadership, differentiation, or a mixed ...
Development and analysis of a supply chain strategy taxonomy.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION A review of supply chain (SC) literature reveals that SC management is increasingly recognized as a critical component of a firm's strategic plan (e.g., Frohlich and Westbrook 2001; Vickery Jayaram, Droge and Calantone 2003). Numerous studies present different SC ...
Supply networks: theories and models *.
Jul 01, 2009; ... There is growing realization that supply networks are critical to the success of participating firms but difficult to manage for any given firm in the network. Whereas supply chain research has emphasized the buyer-supplier dyad, supply network research strives to examine the network ...