Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares Anabela.Soares@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Strategic and Operations Management
Introduction to the handbook of research methods for supply chain management
Soares, Anabela; Childe, Stephen
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Stephen Childe
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Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares Anabela.Soares@uwe.ac.uk
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Stephen Childe
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Abstract
Industry has changed. Businesses that once focused on the efficiency, quality and productivity of their operations to bring the most competitive product or service to the market, have found that competition has forced them to look at where their materials and equipment come from. In a world where automated machinery has reduced the cost of labour in many industries, the proportion of cost accounted for by purchased items has grown. At the same time many companies have transferred non-core activities to specialist suppliers, and while cost and quality may have improved, co-ordination and planning problems have made the management challenge more complex. This means that in addition to trying to manage a single business, managers are trying to manage the activities of their suppliers which, contrary to the term, are not always arranged in a linear chain but in a more complex web of relationships where your supplier may also supply to your competitor.
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Soares, A., & Childe, S. (2022). Introduction to the handbook of research methods for supply chain management. In A. Soares, & S. Childe (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management (xii-xiv). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975865.00005
Online Publication Date | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Publication Date | Oct 18, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Dec 21, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 19, 2023 |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | xii-xiv |
Series Title | Handbooks of Research Methods in Management series |
Book Title | Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management |
ISBN | 9781788975858 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975865.00005 |
Keywords | Supply chain research; Supply chain methods; Supply chain methodology; Supply chain management research; Handbook; Guide |
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This is the final draft chapter/article of the chapter ‘introduction to the handbook of research methods for supply chain management’. The final version is available in ‘Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management’ edited by Anabela Soares and Stephen Childe, published in 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975865.00005
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